The Feature Flag Burial
Clean up stale feature flags
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Our codebase has accumulated stale feature flags: [PASTE THE FLAG LIST OR DESCRIBE THE MESS - AGES, WHO OWNS THEM, WHAT THEY GATE]. Run the burial: classify each flag - ship it (make it permanent), kill it (remove the dead path), or keep it (genuinely temporary, with an expiry date). For each kill, the risk check: who might still have it off. Then the standing rule that stops flag rot (every flag gets an owner and expiry at creation) and the 20-line cleanup ticket format so this becomes a routine, not a project.
Inputs needed
- ■Flag list with ages/owners, what they gate
What good output looks like
Every flag classified with a reason; kills carry a risk check; prevention rule has owner + expiry; repeatable ticket format included
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