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CLOUD-192 The board transitions to Done on merge, not on release — In Review is never occupied
Why. The board is the observability surface, and its states are defined against a trunk-based model: In Review = landed on Measured. PR #103 merged at The end state converged here only because release-plz happened to release promptly. The transition is keyed on the wrong event, so the failure is latent rather than absent:
This also supersedes a recorded observation in Acceptance.
Implementation, 2026-08-13. Re-measured before touching anything. The defect is still live and unchanged from the original CLOUD-168 observation: CLOUD-499's state history reads The two halves have different owners, and only one is code.
So the repo ships the half it can hold: the consequence. The board was corrected rather than grandfathered. Piping the full Done closure (159 issues) exited 1 and named five: CLOUD-404, CLOUD-484, CLOUD-491, CLOUD-495, CLOUD-499 — each landed, each in no tag. All five moved to In Review, Fewer than the 50 unreleased commits would suggest, because an issue is judged by its most-released ref: work carrying several PRs, some shipped, passes. That is CLOUD-468's question and this gate deliberately does not answer it. Notes. If the integration cannot key The automation is not simply slow: What that rules in and out:
The untested hypothesis is Linear's closing vs contributing PR distinction, which the settings page names in its own copy. #398's body carries It is not settled by the earlier counter-evidence in the memory (#131 completing on merge with only a RESOLVED: it is the closing keyword. The controlled probe ran on this issue, and the result is unambiguous.
#404 is the confirming instance rather than a repeat: it is the PR that ships One variable. Same repository, same branch name ( That also retires the So the merge-side transition is reachable, and reaching it is a repo-side change: the PR body must name its issue with a closing keyword. That ships with a gate rather than a convention, per non-negotiable 2 — a rule with no runnable mechanism is half a change, and this specific rule is invisible when broken, which is exactly the shape that decays. Superseded next step (kept for the record): If it moves to In Review and a Status against the four acceptance bullets.
All four bullets hold, and the issue is Done on the definition it argued for — released, not merely merged. It reached each column by the mechanism that column is supposed to have: |
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In @.serena/memories/workflow/board-states.md:
- Around line 55-61: Update the promotion predicate in the workflow document to
require a successful sweep-level HEAD suite run in addition to the existing four
conditions. Define that each failed suite leg records its shortfall and keeps
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| 1. `released "$TAG" </dev/null` — a tag's range names the ref | ||
| 2. `graph-check` — the board labels the row honestly | ||
| 3. **acceptance-read against the released tree** — every Acceptance clause resolves | ||
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| 4. **MUTANT-directive presence** where the row declares one |
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Add the passing HEAD suite run to the Done predicate.
The four-item conjunction in Lines [55-61] does not include the sweep-level suite run. Lines [80-82] explain why one HEAD run replaces per-row reruns, but they do not require that run to pass before promotion. Lines [92-94] define the In Review outcome only for unresolved Acceptance clauses. A row could therefore satisfy the listed conditions without suite verification, with no defined outcome for a failed suite.
Make the successful HEAD suite run an explicit condition. State that every failed leg records its shortfall and keeps the row In Review.
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-4. **MUTANT-directive presence** where the row declares one
+4. **one successful suite run at HEAD for the whole sweep**
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+For rows that declare a `MUTANT` directive, require the directive check as
+an additional conditional prerequisite.
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-A row whose acceptance does not fully resolve **stays In Review with the shortfall
-recorded on it.**
+Any row that fails a conjunction leg **stays In Review with the failed leg and
+shortfall recorded on it.**Also applies to: 80-82, 92-94
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In @.serena/memories/workflow/board-states.md around lines 55 - 61, Update the
promotion predicate in the workflow document to require a successful sweep-level
HEAD suite run in addition to the existing four conditions. Define that each
failed suite leg records its shortfall and keeps the affected row In Review,
while preserving the documented single-HEAD-run replacement for per-row reruns
and existing Acceptance-clause outcomes.
…e work `released` and `graph-check` answer "did a tag name this ref" and "is the row honestly labelled". Neither asks whether the mechanism the row demanded exists, and `released`'s own header says shipping a ref is necessary, not sufficient — refs resolve from commit messages, so a commit can cite or defer an issue without implementing it. Records the four-part conjunction, and why a PER-ROW suite re-run is not part of it. Measured rather than argued: policy.rs claimed `no_evaluator_feature_admits_io` at 1a5ab50 (03:30) and the test first existed at 6b33388, 6h45m later. v0.0.97 claim=yes test=no v0.0.98 claim=yes test=no v0.0.99 claim=yes test=yes Two releases shipped the crate's central security claim citing a test that did not exist, suite green throughout. A re-run reports green and says nothing; a grep for the named test catches it at once. Same class as CLOUD-807's own false Done — `retires_with` absent, waiver intact, 0 of 141 subject headers, marked Done. The defect the sweep exists to prevent is the one only an acceptance-read catches, because a test nobody wrote cannot be run. The re-run's one unique catch is covered by ONE suite run at HEAD for the whole sweep; the suite is shared, so N per-row runs are the same evidence N times. Both bounds are stated so this is not read as complete: a green suite does not establish that a test discriminates, and a suite verdict is a property of the whole tree including base the author did not write. Refs: CLOUD-192
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What this is
mem:workflow/board-statesalready documents the In Review → Done sweep as a conjunction ofgraph-check("is this row honestly labelled") andreleased("did a tag ship it"). Both answer questions about the board and the commit graph. Neither asks whether the mechanism the row demanded actually exists — andreleased's own header says so outright: shipping a ref is necessary for Done, not sufficient, because refs resolve from commit messages, so a commit can cite, document or defer an issue without implementing it.This records the missing legs, and why a per-row suite re-run is not one of them.
The measurement that decides it
policy.rsclaimedno_evaluator_feature_admits_ioat1a5ab50(2026-08-21T03:30). The test first existed at6b33388, 6h45m later:Two releases shipped the crate's central security claim citing a test that did not exist, with the suite green throughout. A re-run reports green and says nothing; a grep for the named test catches it in one second.
That is the same class as the original false Done on the retirement-permit row —
retires_withabsent, the waiver intact, 0 of 141# subject:headers, marked Done. The defect this sweep exists to prevent is the one only an acceptance-read catches, because a test nobody wrote cannot be run.The re-run's one unique catch — a test that exists and fails — is covered by one suite run at HEAD for the whole sweep. The suite is shared, so N per-row runs are the same evidence N times.
Both bounds are stated, so it is not read as complete
tests/land.bats:1310failed inside a full parallelverifyon a speculatively linearized tree and passed in isolation on the same content. Recorded on the parallel-backend row as a third member of that family.Why this ships as a memory and owes no new gate
Non-negotiable 2 asks that a rule ship with its mechanism. Three of the four legs already have one —
released,graph-check, andmutant. The fourth, the acceptance-read, is deliberately not gateable: judging whether a clause resolves to a real mechanism is a judgement over prose, and gates decide rather than estimate.released's header already draws the same line ("presence of a citation is checkable; sufficiency is not"). So the durable home is the memory, and no gate is owed.Applied
Eight rows promoted under this standard so far, across PR #613 and PR #610, each acceptance-read against the released tree before the write. No row has yet failed the read; a row that does stays In Review with the shortfall recorded on it.
DO-NOT-CLOSE
Refs: CLOUD-192
Deliberate, per
closing-key-check's own escape. That row is already Done, on the definition it argued for, and its four acceptance bullets all hold. This PR extends the memory its bullet 4 established; it does not complete the row and must not move it.