changelog.d/269.md

@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-### Fixed
-
-- The upstream deferral record now names its floor and a dated measurement instead of a frozen `0.7.4` ceiling that expired before it was written (#269).
-
-### Changed
-
-- `docs/UPSTREAM-SYNC.md` now records unconditionally that the next sync campaign merges rather than ports, and so advances the ancestry baseline (#269).

docs/UPSTREAM-SYNC.md

@@ -30,33 +30,10 @@ The ancestry baseline therefore remains the full `.upstream-ref` value
 `upstream-0.6.x` for upstream's line and bare `0.6.x` for releases cut on this
 forge.
 
-Upstream's drill-record fixes and the upstream `0.7.x` line remain deferred to
+Upstream's drill-record fixes and the upstream `0.7.0` through `0.7.4` line
-the next sync campaign. That line has no ceiling this file can hold still —
+remain deferred to the next sync campaign. If that campaign merges rather
-upstream tags roughly one release a week — so what is recorded here is its
+than ports, it is the campaign that advances `.upstream-ref`; another port
-floor and the date it was last measured: `0.7.0` onward, `0.7.6` newest as
+leaves the ancestry baseline unchanged.
-measured 2026-08-27. Run `git ls-remote --tags` for today's ceiling. The
-sentence this replaced froze `0.7.4` and was already a release behind on the
-day it was written.
-
-## The next campaign merges
-
-The next sync campaign is a merge, not a port, and it therefore advances
-`.upstream-ref` to the commit it merges. The operator ruled this on #268 on
-2026-08-27, when release-init found no forge-local work to fill an `0.6.4` and
-opened no window.
-
-The reason is the ancestry baseline. `.upstream-ref` has been pinned at
-`8c3a4d1` — upstream `0.6.0`, merged by #198 — because 0.6.2 came across as a
-port and a port moves no ancestry. Another port would leave it pinned and
-guarantee a third, larger campaign against a delta that is still growing.
-
-Size it before starting. With upstream's tags fetched read-only per step 1,
-`git diff --shortstat 8c3a4d1dee2bdb5ac06a632a285bb65ab2615214 0.7.6`
-was 92 files and +25,121/-971 over 488 commits when measured 2026-08-27, and
-the three action scripts the forge delta is heaviest in all move:
-`runner-isolated` +1619, `issueflow-reconcile` +913, `labels-reconcile` +889.
-Step 4 of the procedure below — the audit of what merged *without* conflicting
-— is where that size is actually paid for.
 
 ## The standing resolutions