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Formalise best practice around flag rollouts

Luke Duncalfe requested to merge ld-import-integration-feature-flag-rollout into main

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This change is to formalise a best practice around flag rollouts for groupimport and integrate.

It recommends we prefer to release features with the flag enabled for 1-3 weeks before removing the flag, rather than the usual process of removing the flag quickly upon verification in production. This allows a period of time where a feature that causes an incident can be toggled off to mitigate the incident quickly.

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Edited by Luke Duncalfe

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