[RFC] Moving to trunk based development and introducing feature flags about parcel HOT 2 OPEN

Any thoughts about how we'll manage the lifecycle of feature flags? AFAIK there's no perfect solution to the problem of feature flag atrophy but it's nice to at least consider the problem up front.

Seems like a solid proposal to me 👍

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Any thoughts about how we'll manage the lifecycle of feature flags? AFAIK there's no perfect solution to the problem of feature flag atrophy but it's nice to at least consider the problem up front.

Fair point. There's definitely a risk that we might end up with features behind a flag that for whatever reason don't "graduate" to real features for a long time. I suppose it's one of those things that we'll need to address as it comes up.

We've kind of already got this to some extent with some of the unstable_ features we added during our long migration. The main one I can think of is the "async runtime" stuff. Whether that was behind a feature flag or unstable_ prefix it's still just sitting there with no current plan for what needs to be done to "graduate" it.

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