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Deprecation for GraphQL pipelines field in packages

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!73879

data/deprecations/15-0-remove-pipelines-from-version-field.yml

+- name: "Remove the `pipelines` field from the `version` field" # The name of the feature to be deprecated
+  announcement_milestone: "14.5" # The milestone when this feature was first announced as deprecated.
+  announcement_date: "2021-11-22" # The date of the milestone release when this feature was first announced as deprecated. This should almost always be the 22nd of a month (YYYY-MM-22), unless you did an out of band blog post.
+  removal_milestone: "15.0" # The milestone when this feature is planned to be removed
+  body: | # Do not modify this line, instead modify the lines below.
+    In GraphQL, there are two `pipelines` fields that you can use in a [`PackageDetailsType`](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/api/graphql/reference/#packagedetailstype) to get the pipelines for package versions:
+
+    - The `versions` field's `pipelines` field. This returns all the pipelines associated with all the package's versions, which can pull an unbounded number of objects in memory and create performance concerns.
+    - The `pipelines` field of a specific `version`. This returns only the pipelines associated with that single package version.
+
+    To mitigate possible performance problems, we will remove the `versions` field's `pipelines` field in milestone 15.0. Although you will no longer be able to get all pipelines for all versions of a package, you can still get the pipelines of a single version through the remaining `pipelines` field for that version.
+  stage: package
+  tiers: Free
+  issue_url: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/342882

doc/update/deprecations.md

@@ -185,6 +185,17 @@ In milestone 15.0, we will remove the feature flag entirely. Moving forward, you
 
 Announced: 2021-11-22
 
+### Remove the `pipelines` field from the `version` field
+
+In GraphQL, there are two `pipelines` fields that you can use in a [`PackageDetailsType`](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/api/graphql/reference/#packagedetailstype) to get the pipelines for package versions:
+
+- The `versions` field's `pipelines` field. This returns all the pipelines associated with all the package's versions, which can pull an unbounded number of objects in memory and create performance concerns.
+- The `pipelines` field of a specific `version`. This returns only the pipelines associated with that single package version.
+
+To mitigate possible performance problems, we will remove the `versions` field's `pipelines` field in milestone 15.0. Although you will no longer be able to get all pipelines for all versions of a package, you can still get the pipelines of a single version through the remaining `pipelines` field for that version.
+
+Announced: 2021-11-22
+
 ### Update to the Container Registry group-level API
 
 In milestone 15.0, support for the `tags` and `tags_count` parameters will be removed from the Container Registry API that [gets registry repositories from a group](../api/container_registry.md#within-a-group).