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[Feature flag] Cleanup vscode_web_ide

MR: Remove vscode_web_ide feature flag (!188427 - merged)

Summary

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

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Expectations

What might happen if this goes wrong?

We identified some users still on the old Web IDE, we've since included an in-product announcement to let them know this will be removed here In-product announcement for deprecation of lega... (#514551 - closed).

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 Enrique Alcántara