<!-- Title suggestion: [Feature flag] Cleanup <feature-flag-name> --> ## Summary This issue is to cleanup the `<feature-flag-name>` feature flag, after the feature flag has been enabled by default for an appropriate amount of time in production. <!-- Short description of what the feature is about and link to relevant other issues. Ensure to note if the feature will be removed completely or will be productized--> ## Owners - Team: NAME_OF_TEAM - Most appropriate slack channel to reach out to: `#g_TEAM_NAME` - Best individual to reach out to: NAME - PM: NAME ## Stakeholders <!-- Are there any other stages or teams involved that need to be kept in the loop? - Name of a PM - The Support Team - The Delivery Team --> ## Expectations ### What might happen if this goes wrong? <!-- Any MRs that need to be rolled back? Communication that needs to happen? What are some things you can think of that could go wrong - data loss or broken pages? --> ### Cleaning up the feature flag <!-- The checklist here is to help stakeholders keep track of the feature flag status --> - [ ] Specify in the issue description if this feature will be removed completely or will be productized as part of the Feature Flag cleanup - [ ] Verify that external API consumers (for example, IDE extensions, Duo CLI, or CI integrations) that may query this feature flag have been updated or can gracefully handle its removal. See the [external API consumer guidance](https://docs.gitlab.com/development/feature_flags/#do-not-use-feature-flags-in-external-api-consumers) for details on fail-open patterns and upgrade timing considerations. - [ ] Create a merge request to remove `<feature-flag-name>` feature flag. Ask for review and merge it. - [ ] Remove all references to the feature flag from the codebase. - [ ] Remove the YAML definitions for the feature from the repository. - [ ] Create [a changelog entry](https://docs.gitlab.com/development/feature_flags/#changelog). - [ ] Ensure that the cleanup MR has been deployed to both production and canary. If the merge request was deployed before [the code cutoff](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/releases/#self-managed-releases-1), the feature can be officially announced in a release blog post. - [ ] `/chatops gitlab run auto_deploy status <merge-commit-of-cleanup-mr>` - [ ] Close [the feature issue](ISSUE LINK) to indicate the feature will be released in the current milestone. - [ ] If not already done, clean up the feature flag from all environments by running these chatops command in `#production` channel: `/chatops gitlab run feature delete <feature-flag-name> --dev --pre --staging --staging-ref --production` - [ ] Close [the rollout issue](ISSUE LINK). <!-- Uncomment the appropriate type label /label ~"type::feature" ~"feature::addition" /label ~"type::maintenance" /label ~"type::bug" -->