Add the upkeep standard and track catalog v6.3.0 (v2.1.0)

Andrew Dunnrequested to merge
upkeep/standard into main

Added

  • upkeep, a Conditional advisory standard for exhibits that render dated claims about GitLab. A conforming project declares how its claims go stale in .gitlab/freshness.yaml, includes the pipeline/freshness tripwire on a weekly schedule, publishes a freshness.json heartbeat when: always, and links a re-derivation procedure from a README Maintenance section. The check asserts the manifest keys, the include, the heading and the link; unasserted: names what the closed primitive set cannot reach.

  • The catalog pin moves from v5.0.0 to v6.3.0, the release that ships pipeline/freshness. just sync propagates it to every include in the repository. Nothing in the v5.0.0 to v6.2.2 range changes an input contract on a component the reference includes.

  • The tripwire cannot withhold a deploy, which is a different property from never going red. Exit 1 (a newer release at the declared cadence, a read date past stale_after_days, or a citation that returns 404 or 410 or redirects off its host) is red by design, and exit 2 (the check could not see) is the allowed one. Placement keeps it off the critical path: a stage after the deploy, and rules that fire only on scheduled and manually started pipelines.

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