Decisions

Numbered, append-only, cited from source by number. A decision here is a choice that constrained something afterwards - not a summary of what the code does, which the code already says.

The same discipline as the sibling projects: if a citation in a comment points at a number, this file explains it, and a number that duplicates another makes every citation of it ambiguous.

D016-D024 carry no date. Dating stopped after D015 (2026-08-26); those entries were made on or after that day and nothing narrower is recoverable. Entries after them carry one.

This table is generated. Edit an entry under decisions/, then run tools/split-decisions.sh --index prosperous. A number resolves to exactly one file.

	#	decision	status	date
🟢	D001	Prosperous exists, and it is a library with two consumers	decided	2026-08-25
🟢	D002	A target's answer is read on its own terms, and a refusal is not a failure	decided	2026-08-25
🟢	D003	The fake blocks on accept and knocks to stop, because polling was measured and was terrible	measured	2026-08-26
🟢	D004	What cannot be checked is refused by name, in both places it comes up	decided	2026-08-26
🟢	D005	The command line holds nothing, and its exit codes are part of what it holds	decided	2026-08-26
🟢	D006	Continuous integration runs the one dev command, and nothing else	decided	2026-08-26
🟡	D007	The target is a manifest source, and the path is asked for rather than assumed	assumed	2026-08-26
🟢	D008	The frame grabber is a resident payload with its own port, and its protocol is written down before it is built	decided	2026-08-26
🟢	D009	The window matches orbistoun's, deliberately, down to the version	decided	2026-08-26
🟢	D010	Two more columns, and neither of them may lie about what was not looked at	decided	2026-08-26
🟢	D011	The library, backups, and what a copy has to promise	decided	2026-08-26
🟢	D012	The window is a sidebar of sections, and streaming is somebody else's program	decided	2026-08-26
🟢	D013	A target answered, and three guesses became measurements while two rules turned out wrong	decided	2026-08-26
🟢	D014	Downloading is built, because a target handed over digests to check it against	decided	2026-08-26
🟢	D015	Names come from the target, and are never invented	decided	2026-08-26
⚪	D016	The manifest format is one tool's file, and port is ours	unrecorded	~2026-08-26..08-30
🟢	D017	Five lists, one mechanism, and what an honest list can contain	measured	~2026-08-26..08-30
⚪	D018	A save transfer decides before it moves anything	unrecorded	~2026-08-26..08-30
⚪	D019	The first write to a target, and what it had to earn	unrecorded	~2026-08-26..08-30
🟢	D020	What the target is, measured rather than looked up	measured	~2026-08-26..08-30
🟢	D021	Package installation was a shell builtin, not a service	measured	~2026-08-26..08-30
🟢	D022	This project sends and supervises; it does not drive	hardware	~2026-08-26..08-30
⚪	D023	Two pad models, on purpose	unrecorded	~2026-08-26..08-30
⚪	D024	Three ways to make something run on a target, and three buttons	unrecorded	~2026-08-26..08-30
🟢	D025	pros-link takes the logging facade, and the empty dependency table goes	decided	2026-08-30
🟢	D026	The window ships its own manual	decided	2026-08-30
🟢	D027	Process control is prosperous work, not obSCEne's	decided	2026-09-04

	meaning
🟢	settled, and the reasoning rests on something checkable
🟡	assumed or proposed - made without input, and in the review queue
🔴	reversed, superseded or blocked
⚪	no status recorded

A date with ~ is not recorded - it is worked out from the dated entries either side, because an entry between two of them was written between their dates. ~ alone is a day both neighbours agree on; ~a..b is a span, and no day inside it is claimed; ~>a and ~<a are entries with a dated neighbour on only one side. A bare - has no dated entry either side to reason from.