Release `require_email_verification`

Why are we doing this work?

The require_email_verification feature flag is currently enabled across all environments. This feature was first released in 2022.

As part of the next steps, the following actions are required:

1. Documentation Update: The relevant documentation must be updated to reflect the current state of the feature.
2. Functional Tests:
   • We may need a mechanism to disable the feature flag in existing functional tests.
   • Alternatively, we may need to modify the functional tests to ensure they continue to pass in a deterministic manner, accounting for the feature's presence or absence.
3. Feature Flag Removal: To complete the feature's release, we will remove the feature flag and deploy the code that was previously gated by it.

chatops	dev	staging	staging-ref	production
/chatops run feature get require_email_verification --dev --staging --staging-ref --production	does not exist	does not exist	enabled	enabled

Relevant links

• Chatops
• Definition
• Rollout Issue
• Feature issue
• Introduced By

Implementation plan

• Update the documentation
• Complete the steps in the rollout issue
  • Enable the feature flag in the dev environment
  • Enable the feature flag in the staging-ref environment
  • Delete the feature flag YAML definition and release the code gated by this flag.

Verification steps

• The QA tests for the govern stage should continue to pass
• The YAML definition for the feature flag is deleted from the codebase.
• The feature works as expected. (TODO:: Determine what the expected behaviour is)