experimental IDEs feature flag

[filiptronicek]

Description

Introduces a new feature flag which enables IDEs to be optionally marked as experimental. When an IDE is experimental, it will only show to users whose ConfigCat response for experimentalIdes returns true.

Preview status

Gitpod was successfully deployed to your preview environment.

• 🏷️ Name - ide-experi28316dc360
• 🔗 URL - ide-experi28316dc360.preview.gitpod-dev.com/workspaces.
• 📚 Documentation - See our internal documentation for information on how to interact with your preview environment.

Related Issue(s)

Needed to introduce #17196.

How to test

• In the preview environment, the VS Code Browser option should not be available, unless you add yourself to the corresponding ConfigCat flag -- experimentalIdes in our non-prod ConfigCat.

Release Notes

NONE

Documentation

Build Options:

• /werft with-werft
  Run the build with werft instead of GHA
• leeway-no-cache
• /werft no-test
  Run Leeway with --dont-test

Publish Options

• /werft publish-to-npm
• /werft publish-to-jb-marketplace

Installer Options

• analytics=segment
• with-dedicated-emulation
• with-ws-manager-mk2
• workspace-feature-flags
  Add desired feature flags to the end of the line above, space separated

Preview Environment Options:

• /werft with-local-preview
  If enabled this will build install/preview
• /werft with-preview
• /werft with-large-vm
• /werft with-gce-vm
  If enabled this will create the environment on GCE infra
• with-integration-tests=all
  Valid options are all, workspace, webapp, ide, jetbrains, vscode, ssh

/hold

[werft-gitpod-dev-com]

started the job as gitpod-build-ide-experimental-flag.1 because the annotations in the pull request description changed
(with .werft/ from main)

[filiptronicek]

Please do not unhold until we revert 1e073fb 🙏

[gtsiolis]

Removing hold as both @gitpod-io/engineering-webapp and @gitpod-io/engineering-ide teams approved the code changes.

/unhold

Friendly reminder that @gtsiolis is an additional reviewer for changes in the components/dashboard folder, but not required to additionally approve if someone from @gitpod-io/engineering-webapp already approved the changes, see CODEOWNERS. 💡