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Daniel Norman 0dc1e557a5 Move repo facts outside the project payload
Repos need not carry a `xyz.radicle.project` payload; the default
branch can come from `xyz.radicle.crefs` alone. Such repos got no
counts and no default branch, and failed schema validation in
explorer, which broke the parse of a whole listing.

httpd:
- Add top-level `cobs` with issue, patch and bucketed release counts
- Add top-level `defaultBranch`, qualified like the crefs payload
- Omit a count the node cannot determine instead of reporting zero
- Drop `head`: the tip is `refs[defaultBranch]`
- Keep counts in the project payload for older clients until a
  major release
- Keep the project payload when a COB read fails
- Keep `meta.releases` a single count: delegate + other
- Log and skip canonical ref rules and refs that fail to read,
  so one bad ref doesn't drop the default branch tip

explorer:
- Model `cobs` and `defaultBranch`, adapting older nodes to one shape
- Resolve the default branch from the crefs HEAD on older nodes
- Collect the shims for older httpd in http-client/lib/compat.ts,
  each naming the httpd release that the client can drop it with
- Add `defaultBranchTip`, replacing `head`, with a fallback to the
  legacy `meta.head`
- Make the project payload and its legacy meta optional
- Fall back to the RID for the repo name, and show a placeholder
  for a missing name in repo cards and the header
- Hide a counter instead of reading a missing count as zero
- Fall back to a full-page check for "More" without counts
- Add a `repo.sourceUnavailable` route for repos without a
  default branch or tip
- Browse explicit revisions and offer the branch selector without
  a default branch
- List these repos in repo grids and on the landing page
- Say the node is older or built without releases
- Scope release pages in the client, so views never call the shims
- Read OG worker repos through the same compat shims
- Share the repo name and default branch helpers with the OG worker

CI:
- Add check:open-graph, a wrangler deploy dry run
- Run it in GitHub CI, Buildkite and check:ci
- Install explorer's dependencies first: the worker
  resolves compat.ts imports, such as zod, from there

Tests:
- Test that a build without releases omits the count
- Test that one failing rule keeps the others
- Test the repo shape across httpd versions and the release shims
- Test `hasMorePages` and `repoName`
- Test repos without a project payload end to end
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httpd API changes

Every breaking change to the httpd API ships in two steps, see ADR 0001. Expand adds the new shape next to the old one. Contract removes the old one later, on each side separately. This file tracks each change from its expand release until both sides have contracted.

One section per change, under the httpd release that expanded it, newest first. Each section says what the expand added and who reads it, then lists the contract: the code each side removes, and when it may go. Delete a contract line when its code is gone. Delete the section when its contract list is empty. A release fills its ## API changes notes from the sections under its heading, and a major release from every server line.

  • Client contract: the explorer client (http-client/) and the Open Graph worker (workers/open-graph/) may stop reading the old shape when explorer drops the last httpd release without the new shape.
  • Server contract: httpd may stop sending the old shape in a major release after the expand.

Expanded in the next release (unreleased)

API at /api

Expand: httpd serves the API at /api, and still serves it at /api/v1. Read by the explorer client and the Open Graph worker.

Contract:

  • Client, when explorer drops httpd 0.30: switch to /api in http-client/lib/fetcher.ts
  • Client, when explorer drops httpd 0.30: apiBase in workers/open-graph/index.js
  • Client, when explorer drops httpd 0.30: the tests that match /api/v1 in tests/visual/desktop/ and tests/e2e/
  • Server, a major release after the client lines above: the /v1 nest in crates/radicle-httpd/src/api.rs

Repo facts outside the project payload

Expand: cobs, releaseCount and a qualified defaultBranch move out of the project payload. The legacy meta (counts and head) stays inside it. Only repos/:rid sends the release counts: counting reads every release, so repo lists leave them out. Read by the explorer client and the Open Graph worker.

Contract:

  • Client, when explorer drops httpd 0.30: legacyMetaSchema, crefsPayloadSchema and legacyRepoFields in http-client/lib/compat.ts
  • Client, when explorer drops httpd 0.30: normalizeRepo in workers/open-graph/index.js
  • Server, a major release: legacy meta and head in crates/radicle-httpd/src/api.rs

Release scope

Expand: the releases query takes scope (trusted or untrusted), and the repo reports release buckets. allAuthors stays. Read by the explorer client.

Contract:

  • Client, when explorer drops httpd 0.30: legacyReleasesQuery, legacyScopeReleases and legacyHasOtherReleases in http-client/lib/compat.ts
  • Server, a major release: allAuthors in crates/radicle-httpd/src/api/query.rs

Removed apiVersion

httpd no longer reports apiVersion in the API root, and explorer no longer checks it. Explorer warns on nodes older than minimumSupportedVersion in http-client/lib/compat.ts, from the version in the API root. Released explorers do not read apiVersion. This is a removal, so the next release is a major release.