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Draft: Release the Maven package requests forwarding feature

David Fernandez requested to merge 359553-cleanup-feature-flag into master

🍬 Context

The Maven package request forwarding feature is a change in the Maven package registry.

At its very core, the idea is simple: when the searched package is not found in the GitLab Maven package registry, forward the request to Maven central (which is the official/default package registry).

This way, users can have simpler set ups in their config by simply pointing to a GitLab instance.

This feature is controlled by a cascading namespace setting.

Since this is a change in one of the most used Package Registry on gitlab.com, the package request forwarding feature has been deployed with a feature flag.

The feature flag rollout issue is: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/359553

🔍 What does this MR do and why?

  • Remove the maven_central_request_forwarding feature flag.
  • Update/clean up the related specs.

📺 Screenshots or screen recordings

TODO Screenhots here.

⚙ How to set up and validate locally

Numbered steps to set up and validate the change are strongly suggested.

MR acceptance checklist

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Edited by David Fernandez

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