Feature clean-up and archival (beta)

Stale features

After features have been rolled out to everyone, they turn stale after a given period of time. Stale features show up with a little broom next to their name and you also receive a Slack notification if the Slack notification is enabled

Stale features view

The stale features view lets you see all the features that are currently stale as well as what needs to be done before they can be archived

Clean-up guide

Open up a feature and find the built in "Clean-up guide". The "Clean-up guide" helps you through the steps required to safely archive a feature.

There are three checks that must pass for the feature to be safe to archive:

• Stale: Feature was rolled out to everyone some time ago

• Flag removed from the code in a GitHub repository

• No access checks for some time

There are two automations that can be enabled at the feature level:

• Auto-creating a Pull Request once the feature turns stale

• Auto-archiving once all checks pass

See the AI code clean-up page for more information on automating code clean-up

Organization clean-up settings

In organization settings, you control requirements for each checks to pass:

• Configure how soon after rollout features should be considered stale

• If GitHub is connected, you'll see which repository will be checked for the presence of flags

• How long to wait for the last access check

You can also set the default automation settings for newly created features.