Add note about incremental rollout to feature flag rollout template

What does this MR do?

Our current rollout procedure does not explicitly call out incremental rollouts.

As a result, we usually test feature flags on our own repos and then enable them globally. That is quite a large blast radius.

In order to contain the risk, we should establish a best practice of performing incremental/gradual rollouts whenever possible.

This MR proposes to add such a note to our feature flag rollout template. If this works well, we can also increase the trust and take load off of the SRE on-call by no longer requiring the on-call to be consulted.

Does this MR meet the acceptance criteria?

Conformity

Availability and Testing

Security

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  • 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

cc @amyphillips

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