Best practices for versioning topics

[pauley-unsaturated]

I am wondering what the general state of versioning a topic is? At the moment, the best I can come up with is to mangle the version number or version-id into the channel topic field. Is it possible to have multiple Channel records sharing the same topic but with different id's? One per version? Is this normal?

[pauley-unsaturated]

Perhaps we set a value in the metadata field of the channel record for the version?