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by viraptor 566 days ago
Not at a planning level, but monitoring. Each feature flag in our environment comes with a "delete-by" date. If it's still in the code by then, the relevant team's slack gets an annoying message every day.

To be clear, sometimes the right action is to extend the date. But it's a loud reminder to do some action.

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That approach makes sense. I guess when it comes to feature flag removal, actually removing the flag isn't that painful and is relatively easy. What's hard is actually remembering to cleanup the code.

Curious, when does your team decide to extend the date?

The feature is not finished and causes some issues for example.