The governance ladder
Level 0 works immediately; a project climbs only as far as its domain needs.
- Status
- stable
- Trust
- unverified
- Approved
- ksor-starter/0.0.58 ·
Governance here is a ladder, not a gate. Demanding the top rung of a project on the bottom one is a bug, not rigour.
Where every record starts
A document needs a title and a status. That is the whole requirement, and a record of such documents is already publishable, searchable and citable.
The rungs above it
Each rung is worth climbing when the domain asks for it, and not before.
Tip
Climb one rung at a time, and only when something has gone wrong without it. A record that adds owners before anyone disputes a document spends review effort buying nothing.
Owners and sources
An owner names who stands behind a document. Provenance names where its claims came from, one entry per source.
Effective dates and supersession
An effective date says when a document began to apply. A replaced document is marked and points at its successor rather than being deleted, so the history stays readable.
A measured floor for abstention
The served rung answers questions from the record and declines the ones it does not cover. The threshold for declining is measured against this corpus, never copied from another one, and it is recorded beside the number with its date.