Enable Apollo Boards by default
What does this MR do and why?
Following is a quick summary of what happened, and why this MR is needed;
- As a part of &9026 (closed), we refactored Boards app to move away from Vuex and use GraphQL exclusively, this has no user-facing impact and was done mainly for maintenance and extensibility of Boards app going forward.
- This refactor was done behind the feature flag
:apollo_boards
. - We were supposed to enable
:apollo_boards
by default for self-managed users by updatingconfig/feature_flags/development/apollo_boards.yml
in %16.7 but we missed it. - We did code-cleanup in %16.7 as a part of !137614 (merged) & !138006 (merged) assuming that flag was enabled already.
- Self-managed instances which upgraded to 16.7 ran into a situation where the feature flag was disabled but the legacy implementation of boards simply didn't exist and that broke boards completely for these users.
- Only workaround for these users is to either manually enable the feature flag, or wait till %16.8 is release where we have enabled the FF via !140845 (merged).
This MR mitigates this by enabling the :apollo_boards
feature flag to true by default so instances running %16.7 can upgrade to a patch without waiting for 16.8.
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Related to #381210 (closed)
Edited by Paul Gascou-Vaillancourt