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Repository feature flags #814

Closed parisk closed 7 years ago

parisk commented 7 years ago

Hey!

I am curious about how did you store the feature flags of repos in GitHub (e.g. enabled/disabled issues, wikis etc.).

Did you use the feature flags described in https://zachholman.com/posts/deploying-software, something similar, did you have a dedicated table for repo features, something else?

Cheers!

holman commented 7 years ago

I think those types of things aren't necessarily considered "feature flags"; in my mind, the characteristic of a feature flag is that they're temporary. They're best used when you're rolling out a new feature that you're testing for performance, usability, stability, etc. In the case of the repositories table, those are generally just boolean columns on the repository table itself; don't need to go with anything more complicated than that.