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May 22, 2020
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Alper Akgun
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Russell Dickenson
May 22, 2020
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@@ -113,17 +113,58 @@ When you begin to enable the feature, please link to the relevant
Feature Flag Rollout Issue within a Slack thread of the first
`/chatops`
command you make so people can understand the change if they need to.
To enable a feature for 25% of
all users
, run the following in Slack:
To enable a feature for 25% of
the time
, run the following in Slack:
```
shell
/chatops run feature
set
new_navigation_bar 25
```
This sets a feature flag to
`true`
based on the following formula:
```
ruby
feature_flag_state
=
rand
<
(
25
/
100.0
)
```
This will enable the feature for GitLab.com, with
`new_navigation_bar`
being the
name of the feature.
This command does
*not*
enable the feature for 25% of the total users.
Instead, when the feature is checked with
`enabled?`
, it will return
`true`
25% of the time.
To enable a feature for 25% of actors such as users, projects, or groups,
run the following in Slack:
```
shell
/chatops run feature
set
some_feature 25
--actors
```
This sets a feature flag to
`true`
based on the following formula:
```
ruby
feature_flag_state
=
Zlib
.
crc32
(
"some_feature<Actor>:
#{
actor
.
id
}
"
)
%
(
100
*
1_000
)
<
25
*
1_000
]
# where <Actor>: is a `User`, `Group`, `Project` and actor is an instance
```
During development, based on the nature of the feature, an actor choice
should be made.
For user focused features:
```
ruby
Feature
.
enabled?
(
:feature_cool_avatars
,
current_user
)
```
For group or namespace level features:
```
ruby
Feature
.
enabled?
(
:feature_cooler_groups
,
group
)
```
For project level features:
```
ruby
Feature
.
enabled?
(
:feature_ice_cold_projects
,
project
)
```
If you are not certain what percentages to use, simply use the following steps:
1.
25%
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@@ -158,15 +199,21 @@ you run these 2 commands:
```
shell
/chatops run feature
set
--project
=
gitlab-org/gitlab some_feature
true
/chatops run feature
set
some_feature 25
/chatops run feature
set
some_feature 25
--actors
```
Then
`some_feature`
will be enabled for both 25% of actors and always when interacting with
`gitlab-org/gitlab`
. This is a good idea if the feature flag development makes use of group
actors.
```
ruby
Feature
.
enabled?
(
:some_feature
,
group
)
```
Then
`some_feature`
will be enabled for both 25% of users and all users interacting with
`gitlab-org/gitlab`
.
NOTE:
NOTE:
**Note:**
**Percentage of time**
rollout is not a good idea if what you want is to make sure a feature
is always on or off to the users.
is always on or off to the users.
In that case,
**Percentage of actors**
rollout is a better method.
### Feature flag change logging
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