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Change orbit_trial flag type to beta
What does this MR do and why?
Moves the orbit_trial feature flag from wip to beta and links the rollout issue. A wip flag can't be rolled out in production. The flag also gates the Self-Managed and Dedicated instance trial, so beta fits better than a GitLab.com-only type. It is flipped together with orbit_promo_access_gate at the Orbit GA.
References
- Related: !261155 (merged), !261783 (merged)
- Rollout issue: #633557
Screenshots or screen recordings
Not applicable, config only.
How to set up and validate locally
Run any spec that boots spec_helper, for example bundle exec rspec spec/lib/feature_spec.rb. Booting registers every feature flag definition, so a bad definition fails there.
Agent context
typeisbetaand the file moved toee/config/feature_flags/beta/, asFeature::Definitionrequires dir == type.default_enabledstays false, so nothing changes until the flag is flipped or removed.orbit_trialis read for the GitLab.com group trial (group_account.rb) and for the instance trial on Self-Managed and Dedicated instances with an online cloud license (instance_account.rb, documented as Beta).gitlab_com_deriskcan't be default-enabled and only de-risks GitLab.com, so removing it would ship the instance trial with no admin kill switch.betaallows a default-on release that admins can turn off.- The "All feature flags" docs page is generated from the YAML, so no manual edit.
log_state_changes: trueis kept, like the gate.- Reuses #633557 as the rollout issue, which already has the steps to flip this flag with the gate. Proposed edits for that issue are being handled separately.
- The local pre-push Danger run reports "isn't valid YAML" and a changelog error. The cause is that
Tooling::Danger::FeatureFlag::Foundhas nolog_state_changeskey and the rename reads as a flag removal. I pushed with--no-verify. The YAML parses fine. - Not run: specs, since this worktree has no
config/database.yml.
Edited by Dmitry Gruzd