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docs: add schema-migrations reference for SQLite chain and legacy.
Centralises migration history, 1.x rules, and the 2.x squash gate so
roadmap and architecture no longer carry a stale v5 snapshot.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
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# Roadmap: open work (1.x+)
**Status:** a working tracker of extensions to the v1.0 boundary, each taken up
only after explicit agreement ([product.md](product.md),
[.cursor/rules/agent-rules.mdc](../.cursor/rules/agent-rules.mdc)). Detailed
design lives in [plans/](plans/). Items marked `candidate` need an OK before
any code is written.
**Reading this from outside the project:** nothing here is a commitment or a
release promise. There are no dates, the order is a recommendation rather than
a schedule, and an item can be dropped or reshaped once its plan is written.
What the project *will not* do is a separate question, answered in
[product.md](product.md) — an item's absence from this file does not mean it is
planned but unlisted.
**Versioning:** SemVer MINOR in the **1.x+** line by default (`1.1.0`…), as long
as defaults and migrations stay compatible with `1.0.0`. A major `2.x` only for
an explicit break. One such break, when 2.x is cut for any reason, is
[schema-squash](#schema-squash) — replacing the 1.x SQLite migration chain
with a baseline. That item does not by itself justify a major.
**Process:** [development.md](development.md). The history of closed phases is
in `git log` and [CHANGELOG.md](../CHANGELOG.md).
---
## Index
| ID | Topic | Status | Progress | Plan |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| contributing | `CONTRIBUTING.md` | candidate | — | — |
| panel-docs | In-panel operator documentation | agreed | 6/6 | [plans/panel-docs.md](plans/panel-docs.md) |
| schema-squash | Squash SQLite migrations into a 2.x baseline | **2.x** | — | — |
**Recommended order** (not binding): the next feature is **panel-docs** once
agreed. dmarc-reports shipped in
[CHANGELOG.md](../CHANGELOG.md) `[1.7.0]` (security review of the ingest path
pending); domain-stats-auto-ratelimit in `[1.6.0]`; send-log-retention in
`[1.5.0]`; inbound-relay in `[1.4.0]`; queue-retries in `[1.3.1]`; the
2026-08-13 full-tree review follow-ups are in `[1.3.0]`. Candidates need
explicit agreement before they join the queue.
After a context reset, pick an item marked `agreed` or `in progress`, then work
the **Implementation checklist** in its linked plan. The `Progress` column above
is `done/total` checklist steps in that plan ([development.md](development.md)
§ Plan checklists).
---
## contributing
**Goal:** `CONTRIBUTING.md` in the root — the dev loop, the checks to run
before a PR, the commit protocol; [development.md](development.md) links to it
rather than repeating it.
**Boundary:** process documentation; worth writing once there is an external
flow of PRs.
**Done when:** the file is in the root and development.md does not duplicate
it.
**Dependencies / risks:** with a single developer and no PRs, this is low
priority.
**Version:** no bearing on semver.
---
## panel-docs
**Goal:** built-in operator documentation in the panel — short pages (or a
help drawer) that explain what each Status check and other controls mean,
without sending the operator out to `docs/guide.md`.
**Boundary:** in-panel help only; not a second copy of the full operator guide.
Seed content includes the Status blurbs removed from the cards in favour of a
denser layout — Machine (kernel counters / rate window), TLS certificate
(port 465, reverse-proxy mount), Hostname / reverse DNS (forward-confirmed
reverse DNS, PTR at the hosting provider), and similar notes for other panel
surfaces as they lose inline commentary.
**Done when:** an operator can open help from the panel for those topics; the
removed Status blurbs are preserved there (or equivalent); no requirement to
read the git tree for day-to-day meaning of a card.
**Dependencies / risks:** copy ownership and translation; keeping help in sync
when checks change; not bloating every page with a second column of prose.
**Version:** `1.x` MINOR; `candidate` until explicitly agreed.
---
## schema-squash
**Goal:** when 2.x is cut, stop shipping the 1.x migration chain in the binary
and replace it with one baseline equal to the schema at the then-current head.
Fresh 2.x data directories no longer create-then-drop the historical `admin`
table. Current chain, legacy notes, and gate thresholds:
[schema-migrations.md](schema-migrations.md) (update that file when migrations
ship; adjust the squash gate to its head at cut time).
**Boundary:** 1.x keeps the full chain so a `1.0.0` data directory still boots.
Do not delete, rename, or reorder migration files while MINOR compatibility with
`1.0.0` holds. Git history keeps the old files either way; only the embedded
set in the 2.x image changes.
Restore remains a separate lock: the backup manifest version must match the
running binary ([architecture.md](architecture.md) § Persistence). It does not
replace the squash upgrade gate.
**Done when:** 2.x embeds a single baseline (plus any 2.x-only migrations after
it); the gate in [schema-migrations.md](schema-migrations.md) is tested; the
operator guide says a 2.x image will not open an unfinished 1.x database.
**Dependencies / risks:** a decided 2.x cut (another breaking change, or an
explicit major). Squashing the current short chain is not a reason to cut 2.x on
its own. A missed gate leaves a mid-chain 1.x database silently stuck.
**Version:** `2.x` major only; not a 1.x item.