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Backlog

The documented ledger for work we deliberately are not doing now: parked investigations (with their evidence), improvement candidates, and escape-hatched designs. It fills the gap before something becomes a plan — the promotion path is backlog → docs/plans → docs/adr.

Rules:

  • One numbered file per item. Entries are never deleted — status flips instead, so a symptom someone trips over next year finds the prior investigation instead of restarting it.
  • Every item carries a Reopen trigger: the concrete event or evidence that justifies picking it up. Until that fires, the item is settled — do not re-litigate it from scratch.
  • Status: parked (investigated, evidence recorded, waiting on the trigger) · candidate (improvement we would take, unscheduled) · promoted → plans/00xx / promoted → adr/00xx (one-line pointer to the plan or ADR that superseded it) · dropped (decided against; keep the why).
  • This directory is an engineering ledger, not user documentation.

Items

Section titled “Items”