Update Access group code review / feature flag process
Why is this change being made?
Recently in Access, 3 production incidents were caused that could have been contained by using a feature flag. These incidents were related to the work done on Linear Namespaces, where we were initially very cautious about rolling out gradually and able to identify issues in advance. Outside of Linear Namespaces, all Access work is far-reaching and changes have the potential to cause disruption across all members. Unfortunately, this leaves little room for error and may require special circumstances.
This is documentation for #12276 (closed)
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Edited by Michelle Gill