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diff --git a/doc/development/feature_flags/index.md b/doc/development/feature_flags/index.md index 140d5f826cf..502a028f089 100644 --- a/doc/development/feature_flags/index.md +++ b/doc/development/feature_flags/index.md @@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ Each feature flag is defined in a separate YAML file consisting of a number of f | `default_enabled` | yes | The default state of the feature flag. | | `introduced_by_url` | no | The URL to the merge request that introduced the feature flag. | | `rollout_issue_url` | no | The URL to the Issue covering the feature flag rollout. | -| `milestone` | no | Milestone in which the feature was added. | +| `milestone` | no | Milestone in which the feature flag was created. | | `group` | no | The [group](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/product/categories/#devops-stages) that owns the feature flag. | NOTE: @@ -178,6 +178,9 @@ All validations are skipped when running in `RAILS_ENV=production`. ## Create a new feature flag +NOTE: +GitLab Pages uses [a different process](../pages/index.md#feature-flags) for feature flags. + The GitLab codebase provides [`bin/feature-flag`](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/blob/master/bin/feature-flag), a dedicated tool to create new feature flag definitions. The tool asks various questions about the new feature flag, then creates @@ -423,6 +426,21 @@ Feature.enabled?(:a_feature, project) && Feature.disabled?(:a_feature_override, /chatops run feature set --project=gitlab-org/gitlab a_feature_override true ``` +#### Percentage-based actor selection + +When using the percentage rollout of actors on multiple feature flags, the actors for each feature flag are selected separately. + +For example, the following feature flags are enabled for a certain percentage of actors: + +```plaintext +/chatops run chatops feature set feature-set-1 25 --actors +/chatops run chatops feature set feature-set-2 25 --actors +``` + +If a project A has `:feature-set-1` enabled, there is no guarantee that project A also has `:feature-set-2` enabled. + +For more detail, see [This is how percentages work in Flipper](https://www.hackwithpassion.com/this-is-how-percentages-work-in-flipper). + #### Use actors for verifying in production WARNING: |