[chromium-dev] Announcing flag ownership!

[Elly Fong-Jones]

Hello chromies!

If your team does not use or care about flags in chrome://flags, you can
stop reading.

I have just landed a CL (https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/1335867)
which requires that every new flag added to chrome://flags has a
corresponding entry in c/b/flag-metadata.json, listing the people/teams
that own the flag and its expiry dates. For more details, please see here:
https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/flag-ownership

I have added entries to the metadata file for all existing flags. These
entries do not list any owners and set these flags to expire in M76 (about
6 months from now).

Please *look through the file for flags your team cares about* and adjust
these pieces of metadata appropriately for those flags. There are more
detailed instructions at the head of the flag metadata file and on
chromium.org here:
https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/flag-ownership

Thanks!

-- elly

[PhistucK]

One thing that might be good to change in chrome:flags, is the message.
Since those flags do not only represent experimental features (which are
usually temporary), but also debugging features (which never expire, like
ignoring the GPU blacklist, unless the feature dies), perhaps that should
be mentioned there as well (and maybe even split the two into two tabs).

☆*PhistucK*

Post by Elly Fong-Jones
Hello chromies!
If your team does not use or care about flags in chrome://flags, you can
stop reading.
I have just landed a CL (
https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/1335867) which requires that
every new flag added to chrome://flags has a corresponding entry in
c/b/flag-metadata.json, listing the people/teams that own the flag and its
https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/flag-ownership
I have added entries to the metadata file for all existing flags. These
entries do not list any owners and set these flags to expire in M76 (about
6 months from now).
Please *look through the file for flags your team cares about* and adjust
these pieces of metadata appropriately for those flags. There are more
detailed instructions at the head of the flag metadata file and on
https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/flag-ownership
Thanks!
-- elly
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[Elly Fong-Jones]

I have been made aware that sites supports having pages not in the root of
the site (!) and so I have moved the flags documentation here:
https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/developers/contributing-code/flag-ownership

-- elly

Post by Elly Fong-Jones
Hello chromies!
If your team does not use or care about flags in chrome://flags, you can
stop reading.
I have just landed a CL (
https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/1335867) which requires that
every new flag added to chrome://flags has a corresponding entry in
c/b/flag-metadata.json, listing the people/teams that own the flag and its
https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/flag-ownership
I have added entries to the metadata file for all existing flags. These
entries do not list any owners and set these flags to expire in M76 (about
6 months from now).
Please *look through the file for flags your team cares about* and adjust
these pieces of metadata appropriately for those flags. There are more
detailed instructions at the head of the flag metadata file and on
https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/flag-ownership
Thanks!
-- elly