On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 8:56 AM, Gary Poster <gary.pos...@canonical.com> wrote: > > On Jun 2, 2011, at 9:39 AM, Deryck Hodge wrote: > >> On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 8:32 AM, Gary Poster <gary.pos...@canonical.com> >> wrote: >>> A warning from experience: beware that our current feature flag story works >>> pretty well for beta testing authenticated users, but not so well for >>> anonymous users. We should be vigilant to make sure that things work for >>> anonymous users before turning flags on for everyone--presumably by turning >>> flags on for everyone on local instances and then on qastaging/staging (as >>> appropriate) and doing some exploratory testing. >>> >> >> Hi, Gary. >> >> Can you be specific about what didn't work for you? Is it that the >> feature flag system assumes an authenticated user, and so once opened >> for everyone, anonymous users saw nothing as if the content was still >> hidden behind the flag? Or was the behavior more unpredictable for >> anonymous users and flags? Just curious about the sort of problem to >> look for myself. > > New code hidden behind a feature flag fell over for anonymous users. In this > particular case, it was security related. > > Because our current feature flags are geared towards turning trial features > on based on characteristics of an authenticated user, this is the kind of > thing it is easy to miss. > > I'm not sure if we allow all canonical LP devs to change feature flags on > staging and qastaging yet. This would be a use case for it, because we would > want to have exploratory testing both with the "everyone (including anonymous > users) gets the feature flag" and with the "only certain people get the > feature flag" scenarios. > > Alternatively or in addition, perhaps there's a clever feature flag tweak we > can do, like looking for a browser cookie that we insert manually in our > browsers, or something. > > Gary
Gotchas. Thanks for the follow up. Cheers, deryck -- Deryck Hodge https://launchpad.net/~deryck http://www.devurandom.org/ _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : launchpad-dev@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
