On 2 June 2011 23:56, 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.

Good point.  I added a note to
<https://dev.launchpad.net/FeatureFlags>; please expand if you can
think of anything else.

> 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.

There is <https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad/+bug/790025> asking for
developer write access on staging/qastaging, but it does not exist
yet.  Also http://pad.lv/792125 for an anonymous/non-anonymous scope;
and http://pad.lv/666544 for getting a consistent fraction of users.

Martin

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