Commit 9c559b73 authored by Marcia Ramos's avatar Marcia Ramos

Merge branch 'aa-update-percentage-rollout-doc' into 'master'

Update Feature percentage rollout strategy

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!24789
parents c94a8806 aa604a5f
......@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ easier to measure the impact of both separately.
GitLab's feature library (using
[Flipper](https://github.com/jnunemaker/flipper), and covered in the [Feature
Flags process](process.md) guide) supports rolling out changes to a percentage of
users. This in turn can be controlled using [GitLab Chatops](../../ci/chatops/README.md).
time to users. This in turn can be controlled using [GitLab Chatops](../../ci/chatops/README.md).
For an up to date list of feature flag commands please see [the source
code](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/chatops/blob/master/lib/chatops/commands/feature.rb).
......@@ -136,8 +136,13 @@ you run these 2 commands:
/chatops run feature set some_feature 25
```
Then `some_feature` will be enabled for 25% of the users interacting with
`gitlab-org/gitlab`, and no one else.
Then `some_feature` will be enabled for 25% of the time the users are interacting with
`gitlab-org/gitlab`. Note that the the feature is not enabled to 25%
of the users, rather a simple randomization is made each time the `enabled?` is checked.
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.
## Cleaning up
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