[Feature flag] Cleanup use_received_header_for_incoming_emails
Summary
This issue is to cleanup the use_received_header_for_incoming_emails feature flag, after the feature flag has been enabled by default for an appropriate amount of time in production.
This feature flag has been in production since %14.9 with !81489 (merged).
See gitlab-com/gl-infra/production#6419 (closed) for more context.
Owners
- Team: ~"group:certify"
- Most appropriate slack channel to reach out to:
#f_service-deskor#g_product-planning - Best individual to reach out to: @cablett or @johnhope
- PM: @mjwood
Expectations
What might happen if this goes wrong?
As of this writing, this feature flag has been default_enabled for ~3 months, so removal of the feature flag should be low risk. In the case of any issues the MR to remove the feature flag can be reverted.
Cleaning up the feature flag
- Create a merge request to remove
use_received_header_for_incoming_emailsfeature 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.
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/chatops run auto_deploy status <merge-commit-of-cleanup-mr>
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- Close the feature issue to indicate the feature will be released in the current milestone.
- If not already done, clean up the feature flag from all environments by running these chatops command in
#productionchannel:-
/chatops run feature delete use_received_header_for_incoming_emails --dev -
/chatops run feature delete use_received_header_for_incoming_emails --staging -
/chatops run feature delete use_received_header_for_incoming_emails
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- Close this rollout issue.
Edited by charlie ablett