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Created by Phil Calder@pcalderOwner

Build 2 - extend experimentation.rb

Extend existing experimentation.rb to support:

  1. experiments table enhancements (experiment subject, not just users)
  2. percentage of actors gate gitlab-org/gitlab#270857 (closed)
  3. gitlab-experiment gem https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-experiment

For experimentation.rb to 'support' percentage or actors and the gitlab-experiment gem, these types of experiments need to be:

  1. included in the EXPERIMENTS hash
  2. respond to the enabled? method

(Note that this is an interim solution, as we investigate dogfooding and/or an experiment feature flag type gitlab-org/gitlab#246620 (closed))

Update:

  • experiment feature flag type implemented
  • experiment subjects added gitlab-org/gitlab!48256 (merged) gitlab-org/gitlab!51659 (merged)
  • decision made not to add percentage of actors gateto experimentation.rb
  • decision made not to integrate experimentation.rb and gitlab-experiment
  • further changes to experimentation.rb may be required to support existing or new experiments on a case by case basis
  • progress building gitlab-experiment is ongoing, but as yet unproven in production
Edited by Phil Calder