Skip to content

Remove migration downtime check since we do not allow downtime [RUN ALL RSPEC] [RUN AS-IF-FOSS]

What does this MR do?

For 4 years we've had logic in our database migrations that required you to set a constant DOWNTIME = true if you required downtime and seek approval from the VP of Engineering. We have never once used this process as we've always found a way around the problem using a different approach.

As such we decided in #326495 (closed) that we should just remove this DOWNTIME constant and the extra checks here to reduce noise in our database code review and give less processes for people to learn.

This MR removes a lot of things and here is a high level summary:

  1. Remove DowntimeCheck class and the rake task that invoked and the CI job that invoked that rake task and any related tests, helper classes
  2. Update documentation to make it clearer that downtime is not allowed and therefore remove the approval process
  3. Update a page called what_requires_downtime to be called avoiding_downtime_in_migrations since it was already a set of patterns to avoid downtime and now it's worded more strongly to imply that we can always get away without downtime
  4. Various other docs pages that had examples of migrations that used the DOWNTIME constant
  5. Various rubocop specs that had migrations in them which used the DOWNTIME constant

The one thing I did not do is go back and remove DOWNTIME = false from all the existing migrations. In general we should not be updating migrations once they've run and this would have made this MR change many thousands of files so it's not worth it.

Screenshots (strongly suggested)

Does this MR meet the acceptance criteria?

Conformity

Availability and Testing

Security

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

Related to #326495 (closed)

Edited by Mayra Cabrera

Merge request reports