Hi,

On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 4:16 PM, Justin Edelson
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> ...Feature Flags may look similar to
>> ACLs, but they are useful for a different set of use cases than ACLs.
>> Feature flags are about "orchestrating" features. Resource access is
>> *one* part of this orchestration, but it is not the only part...
>
> Yes, when I said "similar to ACLs" this is specifically about the
> resource access bits that we have in the resource resolver now.
>
> I'm totally convinced of the utility of feature flags in general, it's
> just the magic in the resource resolver that I'm objecting to.

Where you need that magic (or where it is higher value) is where a
"feature" is composed of both behavioral changes in scripts *and*
resource hiding. That's what I meant by "orchestration" and something
I think would be challenging to do without support in the resource
resolver.

Regards,
Justin

>
> -Bertrand

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