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[Feature]: Renovate version radar + backend version support window #15

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@aldbr

User Story

As an interCEde maintainer,
I want every backend version pinned and tracked by Renovate, plus a weekly unpinned canary,
So that an upstream release that breaks a contract (e.g. HTCondor 25.8's one-shot spool retrieval)
surfaces as a red, bisectable Renovate PR instead of tribal knowledge.

Feature Description

IC-ADR-002 §6 + §8:

  • Lane 1 (blocking): enable docker-compose + dockerfile Renovate managers; customManagers
    regex for # renovate:-annotated ARGs (ARC/Slurm/HTCondor-CE versions). Backend bumps grouped
    per backend, never mixed. A bump PR triggers image rebuild + full matrix.
  • Version support window: each backend declares oldest/LTS anchor + leading edge as a
    versions: matrix axis in stacks.yml (start: HTCondor [lts, latest], ARC/Slurm leading-edge
    only; ARC floor = 7.x). Renovate tracks only the leading edge; anchors accept patch bumps only;
    moving the window is a deliberate human PR.
  • Lane 2 (non-blocking canary): weekly scheduled run of the same matrix against latest/nightly
    tags; failures open a deduplicated issue.

Definition of Done

  • renovate.json extended: compose + dockerfile managers, ARG regex, per-backend grouping
  • A test bump PR shows: image rebuild + integration matrix run + red/green verdict
  • versions: axis consumed by the matrix; HTCondor runs lts + latest
  • Weekly canary workflow exists, non-blocking, deduplicated issue on failure
  • PR latency flat: PRs run leading edge (+1 anchor); full cross-product on schedule only

Alternatives Considered

  • Unpinned tracking only (canary as the mechanism of record) — green-today-red-tomorrow with no
    diff to bisect; rejected (ADR Rejected Ideas).
  • Testing only the newest daemon — answers the wrong question; sites run LTS/old versions (§8).

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