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Deprecate percentage of time feature flag in chatops

We want to deprecate percentage of time feature flag in chatops

Today we allow --random in chatops to enable percentage of time feature flags.

Proposal

Disallow usage of --random in Chatops

When GitLab team member sets a feature flag using --random, send back a message stating that --random is no longer allowed due to confusing side-effects causing many incidents.

For a transition period, the GitLab team member can still force usage of --random by setting a flag like --allow-dangerous-random - as long as they understand the consequences of using percentage of time.

/cc @ayufan @OmarQunsulGitlab @lohrc @arturoherrero

Edited by Thong Kuah