For those who like me didn't know, "feature toggles" means that you implement the feature on trunk, but with some kind of flag that disables the feature until it has been thoroughly tested and is ready for release. It baffles me that we require special terminology to describe what is just common sense. Have we invented so much extra complexity that keeping it obvious and simple is a special case?
It isn't bad compared to "branch by abstraction", which sounds incredibly complicated until you realize that you have probably already used this many times without realizing: use an interface, implement a new version of it, use a toggle to determine which one to use... eventually deprecate the old one.
Can we at least agree to reject the academization of this one and simply refer to all config-time optionality as a "toggle".
