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Add extra snowplow tracking metadata for gitlab team members

Mike Greiling requested to merge mg-add-tracking-metadata-for-gitlab-team-members into master

What does this MR do and why?

Sets extra.gitlab_team_member to a true/false value in all of our client-side snowplow structured events to allow us to segregate user tracking data among GitLab team members from those of non GitLab team members.

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How to set up and validate locally

  1. Enable snowplow-micro in your local GDK
  2. Install the snowplow debugger in Google Chrome
  3. Visit any page on your local GDK and click on a nav menu item
  4. Observe the structured event context data contains a field called "gitlab_team_member" under "extra"

If you'd like to test the true condition of this field, you can manually alter the GITLAB_COM_GROUP_ID in /lib/feature_groups/gitlab_team_members.rb#L5 to a group ID in your local GDK. The ID can be seen easily in the main group page:

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Keep in mind the list of group members within FeatureGroups::GitlabTeamMembers is cached for 1 hour, so you'll may need to break the cache manually to see the result.

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