Implement Feature Flag to Disable Integrated Error Tracking by Default

Summary

This issue is to cleanup the <feature-flag-name> feature flag, after the feature flag has been enabled by default for an appropriate amount of time in production.

Owners

• Team: grouprespond
• Most appropriate slack channel to reach out to: #g_respond
• Best individual to reach out to: @seanarnold
• PM: @abellucci

Stakeholders

Release Notes

Add a feature flag for integrated error tracking until error tracking is prioritized by product and is production ready.

Expectations

• Add a feature flag as per https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/development/feature_flags/
• Return 404 for HTTP endpoints as described in https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/api/error_tracking.html
• Make sure that integrated is always false in Project Settings API
• Remove the option for error tracking backing in settings, see screen shot
• Update documentation mentioning this feature flag

What might happen if this goes wrong?

Cleaning up the feature flag

• Create a merge request to remove <feature-flag-name> feature flag. Ask for review and merge it.
  • Remove all references to the feature flag from the codebase.
  • Remove the YAML definitions for the feature from the repository.
  • Create a changelog entry.
• Ensure that the cleanup MR has been deployed to both production and canary. If the merge request was deployed before the code cutoff, the feature can be officially announced in a release blog post.
  • /chatops run auto_deploy status <merge-commit-of-cleanup-mr>
• Close the feature issue to indicate the feature will be released in the current milestone.
• Clean up the feature flag from all environments by running these chatops command in #production channel:
  • /chatops run feature delete <feature-flag-name> --dev
  • /chatops run feature delete <feature-flag-name> --staging
  • /chatops run feature delete <feature-flag-name>
• Close this rollout issue.