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+# Version-bump playbook
+
+How to introduce `/v2` of an endpoint while `/v1` stays stable. The registry, routing,
+per-version OpenAPI documents, and deprecation headers are already built; this playbook
+is the procedure for using them. "v1 to v2" is used throughout, and the same steps
+apply to any major bump.
+
+## When a bump is required
+
+[Endpoint lifecycle](../site/lifecycle.md) promises callers that a version only ever
+changes additively: new fields, new optional params, new endpoints, new error codes,
+and expanded accepted enum input values. A change breaks that promise, and therefore
+requires a new major version, when it matches the committed Breaking Change definition
+in [CONTEXT.md](CONTEXT.md):
+
+- removes or renames a field, param, endpoint, or enum value
+- changes a field's type or format
+- tightens a constraint (an optional param becomes required, a `sort` allow-list loses
+  a value)
+- changes the meaning of an existing field or status code
+- changes the error envelope shape
+- changes the default or max `pageSize`, or the cursor encoding semantics
+- changes an endpoint's default `sort` value
+
+Additive changes ship inside `/v1` directly; stop here for those.
+
+## Step 1: implement v2 as a sparse version
+
+Create `src/versions/v2/index.ts` exporting a `FastifyPluginAsyncTypebox`, mirroring
+`src/versions/v1/index.ts`. Implement only the endpoints whose contract breaks. v2 is
+sparse by design: callers use `/v2/foo` for the bumped endpoint and keep calling
+`/v1/bar` for everything else, so a bump stays a per-endpoint decision instead of a
+fork of the whole surface.
+
+Keep queries and business logic shared upstream of both version plugins; isolate the
+contract difference itself in a version-specific mapper, with the v2 handler importing
+a `v2Mapper` next to the `v1Mapper` the v1 handler already uses. Duplicating logic
+instead of sharing it upstream is how the two versions drift apart.
+
+## Step 2: register the prefix
+
+Add the version to `versionRegistry` in `src/versions/registry.ts`:
+
+```ts
+export const versionRegistry: ApiVersion[] = [
+  { prefix: '/v1', plugin: v1Routes },
+  { prefix: '/v2', plugin: v2Routes },
+];
+```
+
+The registry loop in `src/app.ts` gives the rest for free: routing under `/v2/`, a
+`/v2/openapi.json` document with `info.version` `2.0.0` (see `specVersionFor`)
+containing only v2 paths and only the schemas those paths reach, and the same for the
+export script (`scripts/export-openapi.ts`).
+
+Adding the entry moves the pins in three suites, so update them in the same commit.
+The registry guards that expect the prefix list `['/v1']`
+(`tests/openapi-versions.test.ts` and `tests/version-lifecycle.test.ts`) now expect
+`['/v1', '/v2']`. The 404 cases for an unregistered prefix in
+`tests/version-routing.test.ts` and `tests/openapi-versions.test.ts` currently request
+`/v2/openapi.json`; re-point them at a prefix that is still unregistered, `/v3` for
+example, so they keep proving prefix isolation.
+
+## Step 3: prove v1 stable
+
+The stability bar for the bump PR: registering `/v2` leaves every `/v1` response
+byte-identical in status, body, and headers, and leaves `/v1/openapi.json` unchanged.
+Routing isolation is pinned by `tests/version-routing.test.ts` and
+`tests/openapi-versions.test.ts`; the PR must show the v1 route handlers and schemas
+untouched, and any shared helper it edits needs the existing suites to stay green.
+
+## Step 4: signal the deprecation, later and deliberately
+
+Registering v2 says nothing to v1 callers, on purpose.
+
+Setting `lifecycle` on a registry entry is prefix-wide: the registry loop in
+`src/app.ts` calls `applyLifecycle` once per version scope, so every `/v1` route picks
+up the `Deprecation`, `Sunset`, and `Link` headers, including routes that never got a
+`/v2` successor. Because v2 stays sparse by design (step 1), only deprecate `/v1` once
+every supported `/v1` route has a `/v2` counterpart; stamping the whole prefix while v2
+covers a handful of endpoints tells callers of untouched routes to migrate to a version
+that doesn't serve them. Deprecating one endpoint ahead of full v2 coverage needs
+route-scoped lifecycle metadata, which doesn't exist yet; that gap is the same
+follow-up noted below, under Retiring the old version.
+
+Once the migration guide is published and v2 has a route for every supported v1
+endpoint, deprecate v1 by adding lifecycle metadata to its registry entry:
+
+```ts
+{
+  prefix: '/v1',
+  plugin: v1Routes,
+  lifecycle: {
+    deprecatedAt: '2027-01-15',
+    sunsetAt: '2027-07-15',
+    successorPrefix: '/v2',
+    deprecationDocsUrl: 'https://api.insights.linuxfoundation.org/docs/migrate-v2',
+  },
+}
+```
+
+Setting `lifecycle` moves two pins in `tests/version-lifecycle.test.ts`, so update
+them in the same commit. The registry guard asserts
+`versionRegistry.every((entry) => entry.lifecycle === undefined)`; deprecating v1
+retires that assertion, so replace it with one that checks the `/v1` entry's actual
+`lifecycle` values. The shipped-registry case `emits none of the three headers with
+the shipped registry` asserts `/v1/openapi.json` answers without the lifecycle
+headers; update it to expect the headers `/v1` now carries, moving it in with the
+deprecated-version cases so the unstamped block keeps its meaning and the shipped
+registry keeps real coverage.
+
+Every `/v1` response then carries `Deprecation`, `Sunset`, and `Link` headers in the
+[ADR-0021](adr/0021-rfc-deprecation-sunset-header-formats.md) wire formats. Headers
+are additive: bodies and status codes stay exactly as they were, and
+`tests/version-lifecycle.test.ts` pins that behavior. Invalid dates fail the build at
+startup, so a bad `lifecycle` entry cannot reach production silently.
+
+## Step 5: communicate
+
+- Add a [changelog](../site/changelog.md) entry announcing `/v2` and what changed.
+- Publish the migration guide at the `deprecationDocsUrl` before setting `lifecycle`.
+- State the sunset window in both. ADR-0003 gates the sunset itself: `/v1` is removed
+  only after `/v2` has been stable for a publicly announced minimum period, which the
+  ADR leaves TBD and calls at least six months conventional. Settle both numbers, the
+  caller notice window and that `/v2` stability period, and record them in
+  [Endpoint lifecycle](../site/lifecycle.md) before scheduling the deprecation.
+
+## Retiring the old version
+
+Removing an entry from `versionRegistry` takes its whole prefix down at once, so only
+retire `/v1` once `/v2` covers every route `/v1` still serves. ADR-0003 commits to
+keeping a `/v1` endpoint alive, even as a stub, until `/v1` is fully sunset; pulling the
+prefix while an unbumped endpoint has no `/v2` replacement breaks that promise. Once
+coverage is complete and the sunset date passes, follow the pattern lifecycle.md
+documents for alpha promotions: the retired routes answer `410 Gone` with a
+`Link: </v2/...>; rel="successor-version"` header for a grace window, then the version
+is removed from the registry. Retiring a single endpoint while `/v1` still serves
+others needs the same route-scoped mechanism step 4 needs for deprecation; the
+mechanics for that step are a follow-up, and nothing in this repo automates it yet.
+
+## Verification checklist
+
+Before merging a bump PR, from `api/`:
+
+1. `pnpm test` green, in particular `tests/version-routing.test.ts` (prefix isolation),
+   `tests/openapi-versions.test.ts` (per-version specs), and
+   `tests/version-lifecycle.test.ts` (deprecation headers).
+2. `pnpm tsc-check` and `pnpm lint` green.
+3. Diff shows v1 handlers and schemas untouched (step 3's stability bar).
+4. `/v2/openapi.json` reviewed: only the bumped endpoints, `info.version` `2.0.0`.
+5. Changelog entry and migration guide linked (step 5).