## Why is this change being made? We want to remove the serverless category as given the available resources, it's not a priority and the existing features became obsolete given the technology evolution of our dependencies, specifically Knative. ## Proposal <!-- Write this following the checklist below and common sense --> 1. [ ] Come up with a recommendation for existing users - Find out how many projects on gitlab.com have serverless functions available 1. [x] [Follow the process](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/product/categories/#changes) 1. [x] Remove `Serverless` from `categories.yaml` and `features.yaml` 1. [ ] Notify users 1. add a notice to the documentation 1. document a recommended alternative if we have one 1. use a banner on the homepage of projects that have serverless functions 1. find out how many projects on gitlab.com have serverless functions available, reach out to the project maintainers 1. [x] Put Serverless related UI and API features behind a feature flag 1. [ ] Switch off the Serverless features using the feature flag in %"15.0" 1. [x] Remove Serverless docs 1. [x] Remove Serverless related code from GitLab codebase ## Issue readiness checklist - [ ] The proposal clearly states what is being deprecated, mentioning potentially related areas and features that are not affected - [ ] The (in-product) communication plan about the removal is described in the proposal - [ ] The documentation requirements of the removal are described in the proposal - [ ] A preliminary timeline for the deprecation and removal is described in the proposal - [x] Deprecation message added to the `CHANGELOG.md` file: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/70200 (+ https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/commit/1b4264c352effd491c010e459093d9e1c2b1ce1d) - [x] Deprecation message posted in the release blog post: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/-/merge_requests/89643 - [ ] Deprecated code removed in %"15.0": https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/merge_requests/XXX