[Feature flag] Cleanup `use_received_header_for_incoming_emails`
Summary
This issue is to cleanup the use_received_header_for_incoming_emails
feature flag, after the feature flag has been enabled by default for an appropriate amount of time in production.
This feature flag has been in production since %14.9 with !81489 (merged).
See gitlab-com/gl-infra/production#6419 (closed) for more context.
Owners
- Team: ~"group:certify"
- Most appropriate slack channel to reach out to:
#f_service-desk
or#g_product-planning
- Best individual to reach out to: @cablett or @johnhope
- PM: @mjwood
Expectations
What might happen if this goes wrong?
As of this writing, this feature flag has been default_enabled for ~3 months, so removal of the feature flag should be low risk. In the case of any issues the MR to remove the feature flag can be reverted.
Cleaning up the feature flag
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Create a merge request to remove use_received_header_for_incoming_emails
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.
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Ensure that the cleanup MR has been deployed to both production and canary. If the merge request was deployed before the code cutoff, the feature can be officially announced in a release blog post. -
/chatops run auto_deploy status <merge-commit-of-cleanup-mr>
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Close the feature issue 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 run feature delete use_received_header_for_incoming_emails --dev
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/chatops run feature delete use_received_header_for_incoming_emails --staging
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/chatops run feature delete use_received_header_for_incoming_emails
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Close this rollout issue.
Edited by charlie ablett