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Add feature filter types for users

Alper Akgun requested to merge aa-feature-gate-filter into master

What does this MR do?

Remembers "feature enabled or not" choice for each user in a feature_filter field to in user preferences for gitlab.com

Background:

  • The MR to add !21658 (merged) a security feature to 10% of users doesn't work properly
  • Chatops percentage rollout uses Flipper gem "Percentage of the time" rollout but doesn't remember the choice for each user every time.
  • that Actor based user percentage rollout doesn't scale properly as it keeps all user IDs in one text field in feature_gates table
# actor based approach does not scale as it keeps the User ids in a string field.
 Feature.enable(:discover_security, current_user)
  3 | discover_security | actors             | User:1  | 2020-02-09 13:06:04.699212 | 2020-02-09 13:06:04.699212
  4 | discover_security | actors             | User:66 | 2020-02-09 13:06:15.43271  | 2020-02-09 13:06:15.43271
  • Cookie based approaches do not remember the choice across browsers and devices.

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Does this MR meet the acceptance criteria?

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If this MR contains changes to processing or storing of credentials or tokens, authorization and authentication methods and other items described in the security review guidelines:

  • [-] Label as security and @ mention @gitlab-com/gl-security/appsec
  • [-] The MR includes necessary changes to maintain consistency between UI, API, email, or other methods
  • [-] Security reports checked/validated by a reviewer from the AppSec team
Edited by Mayra Cabrera

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