[Feature flag] Cleanup blob_blame_info
Summary
This issue is to cleanup the blob_blame_info
feature flag, after the feature flag has been enabled by default for an appropriate amount of time in production.
Owners
- Team: groupsource code
- Most appropriate slack channel to reach out to:
#g_create_source_code
- Best individual to reach out to:
- PM: TBD
Expectations
What are we expecting to happen?
When viewing Source Code via the repository files browser, users should have the ability to view Blame information without leaving the page. A toggle should be available to the user user, and once clicked the blame information should render as expected.
When is the feature viable?
TBD
What might happen if this goes wrong?
When viewing source code via the repository files browser the page might not work as expected.
What can we monitor to detect problems with this?
Frontend error logs
What can we check for monitoring production after rollouts?
https://sentry.gitlab.net/gitlab/gitlabcom/
Cleaning up the feature flag
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Specify in the issue description if this feature will be removed completely or will be productized as part of the Feature Flag cleanup -
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.
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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>
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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 #production
channel:/chatops run feature delete <feature-flag-name> --dev --ops --pre --staging --staging-ref --production
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Close this rollout issue.
Edited by Jacques Erasmus