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[Feature flag] Cleanup duo_include_context_file

Summary

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

  • Feature flag has been globally enabled for 24 hours
    • Enabled 100% on production environment at 1:05 PM EST on 1/22/2025
  • The feature flag will be removed completely.

Owners

  • Team: Duo Chat
  • Most appropriate slack channel to reach out to: #g_duo_chat
  • Best individual to reach out to: @dillonwheeler
  • PM: @tlinz

Stakeholders

  • @dashaadu
  • @ck3g - Best individual to reach for related Feature Flag
  • #f_ai-context

Expectations

  • Self Managed users will have the feature enabled on their instance after updating to 17.9

What might happen if this goes wrong?

N/A - All users on GitLab.com will already have the feature flag enabled.

Cleaning up the feature flag

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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 --pre --staging --staging-ref --production
  • Close this rollout issue.
Edited by Dillon Wheeler