[Feature flag] Cleanup rapid_diffs_on_commit_show
Summary
This issue is to cleanup the rapid_diffs_on_commit_show 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:
#f_rapid_diffs - Best individual to reach out to: @slashmanov
- PM: @mcbabin
Stakeholders
Expectations
What might happen if this goes wrong?
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
- Verify that external API consumers (e.g., IDE extensions, CLI tools) that may check this feature flag have been updated or can gracefully handle its removal.
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Create a merge request to remove
rapid_diffs_on_commit_showfeature 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.
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/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.
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If not already done, clean up the feature flag from all environments by running these chatops command in
#productionchannel:/chatops run feature delete <feature-flag-name> --dev --pre --staging --staging-ref --production - Close the rollout issue.