docs: describe install namespace migration

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Summary

Updates the migration plan, requirements, validation matrix, and E2E guide for install-namespace migration.

• Documents target namespace preparation, resource handoff, and source cleanup.
• Describes the explicit namespace-deletion acknowledgment.
• Records the remaining system-managed namespace requirement gap.
• Adds the fixture cross-namespace test to the documented run order.

Depends on

• migration-install-namespace-tests

Validation

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Documentation
  • Added requirements for selecting an install namespace during conversion, with the Subscription namespace remaining the default.
  • Documented explicit acknowledgment before deleting the source namespace, plus capability checks for system-managed install namespaces.
  • Specified cross-namespace migration behavior, including copying security labels, scaling source Deployments down, handling failures, and removing source resources after target installation.
  • Expanded validation scenarios for fixture and live migrations, unsupported controllers, and namespace retention.

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Walkthrough

The migration specification defines install namespace options and cross-namespace resource handling. It also sets capability requirements for system-managed namespaces and adds related validation and E2E scenarios.

Changes

Namespace migration

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Namespace selection and migration requirements specs/20260821-migration-v0-to-v1/requirements.md	The requirements add install-namespace options and specify cross-namespace resource handling, source Deployment scaling, PSA/SCC label handling, and conditions for source namespace deletion.
Phase 6 scope specs/20260821-migration-v0-to-v1/plan.md	Phase 6 now covers differing install namespaces. System-managed namespace support remains conditional on controller capability and includes a requirement to reject unsupported controllers.
Namespace migration validation specs/20260821-migration-v0-to-v1/validation.md, specs/20260821-migration-v0-to-v1/e2e.md	Validation criteria and E2E scenarios cover cross-namespace migration, namespace deletion, and system-managed namespace handling. The fixture test run order includes the cross-namespace test target.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Other

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 637d5

The guide includes a command developers cannot run, and CI does not cover the documented cross-namespace scenario. Correct the run instructions or wire up the scenario; otherwise the change has bounded documentation and validation risk.

Architecture Summary

Architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 637d5

The change affects 1 system.

Changed systems: specs

Architecture concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Review details

Systems and components

• observed — specs (service) was modified; 4 changed files map to changed impact.

Before / after behavior

• observed — Modified behavior in specs/20260821-migration-v0-to-v1/e2e.md: The matrix adds fixture cross-namespace migration assertions, an acknowledged live namespace-deletion scenario, and a deferred system-managed namespace requirement covering namespace omission and pre-mutation rejection.
• observed — Modified behavior in specs/20260821-migration-v0-to-v1/e2e.md: The separate deferred “Namespace change” row was removed; its coverage is replaced by the cross-namespace and system-managed namespace entries above.
• observed — Modified behavior in specs/20260821-migration-v0-to-v1/e2e.md: The fixture test commands now include migration/test-e2e-cross-namespace.
• observed — Modified behavior in specs/20260821-migration-v0-to-v1/plan.md: Phase 6 changes from blocked on PR #2825 and permitting omission of spec.namespace after it lands to an in-progress phase supporting a differing install namespace. It adds target-namespace creation or update with PSA/SCC label copying, migration of collected namespace-scoped resources with source-copy removal after CE installation, and an explicit requirement for acknowledged source-namespace deletion. It also specifies the remaining system-managed-mode requirements: a supported controller API, capability gating, omitted namespace field, rejection of unsupported controllers without fallback, and a dedicated E2E scenario. The exit criterion now includes completion of those requirements for system-managed mode.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarizes the documentation change for install-namespace migration.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description explains the documentation scope, motivation, dependency, and validation. It does not include the reviewer checklist from the template, but the main required summary is complete.

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Review comments at @specs/20260821-migration-v0-to-v1/e2e.md:
- Line 157: Make the documented cross-namespace E2E command an actual required
CI check: either define the `migration/test-e2e-cross-namespace` target and
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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🏁 Script executed:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -euo pipefail

rg -n -C 3 \
  --glob 'Makefile' \
  --glob '*.mk' \
  --glob '*.yaml' \
  --glob '*.yml' \
  'test-e2e-cross-namespace|test-e2e-fixture-matrix|migration-test' .

Repository: operator-framework/library-olm

Length of output: 2214

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🏁 Script executed:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -euo pipefail

printf '%s\n' '--- exact references ---'
rg -n -C 4 --hidden --glob '!.git' \
  'migration/test-e2e-cross-namespace|test-e2e-cross-namespace|migration/test-e2e-fixture-matrix|migration-test' .

printf '%s\n' '--- migration.mk structure ---'
wc -l migration.mk
sed -n '1,125p' migration.mk

printf '%s\n' '--- CI workflow candidates ---'
fd -t f -e yaml -e yml -e mk -e Makefile . | sort | sed -n '1,160p'

Repository: operator-framework/library-olm

Length of output: 20894

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#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -euo pipefail

printf '%s\n' '--- E2E suite and test bindings ---'
rg -n -C 5 --glob '*.go' \
  'E2E_SUITE|cross.?namespace|Cross.?Namespace|Test.*Namespace|Run\(' \
  test/e2e/migration

printf '%s\n' '--- fixture matrix inputs ---'
cat -n test/e2e/migration/operators.tsv

Repository: operator-framework/library-olm

Length of output: 8401

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#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -euo pipefail
rg -n -C 5 --glob '*.go' 'E2E_SUITE|cross.?namespace|Cross.?Namespace|Test.*Namespace|Run\(' test/e2e/migration
cat -n test/e2e/migration/operators.tsv

Repository: operator-framework/library-olm

Length of output: 8335

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Run the cross-namespace E2E scenario in CI.

The migration-test workflow runs only migration/test-e2e-fixture-matrix. The repository defines no migration/test-e2e-cross-namespace target, and the fixture E2E source contains no cross-namespace test or suite selector. Line 157 therefore documents a command that is not part of the required CI check. Add the target and invoke it in CI, or include the scenario in the fixture matrix.

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Review comment at @specs/20260821-migration-v0-to-v1/e2e.md at line 157:
Make the documented cross-namespace E2E command an actual required CI check:
either define the `migration/test-e2e-cross-namespace` target and invoke it from
the `migration-test` workflow, or add the scenario to
`migration/test-e2e-fixture-matrix` so that workflow runs it.

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