Jochen: a jungle of specs that slightly contradict or patch each other, and what matters is a working state rather than history. Both are fair and both are mine. Measured rather than assumed. 05-the-node-host and 09-the-node-lifecycle both covered enrolment, the install commands, the unit file, the launcher and reconcile -- I wrote 09 without taking anything out of 05, so the same things were said twice and could drift apart. Split by what each document IS. 05 is the component: what the host is, its parts, the declaration vocabulary, the build order, how it is verified. 09 is what happens to it: install, enrol, run, upgrade, retire. The whole "The process" section left 05, and the unit file moved to 09 where installing is described. 05 goes from 338 lines to 245 and now points at 09 rather than restating it. 09 also carried a 105-line "Resolved" section -- six mechanisms framed as "these were open and here is the answer". The content is needed; the framing is history, and history is what makes a document read as a changelog rather than a description. Renamed to what it actually is and the was-open phrasing removed. Also added 10-delivery.md, which did not exist: four accepted decisions -- 0054, 0063, 0064, 0065 -- had no design document at all, which is the specific reason the delivery picture felt scattered. It is now one document covering modules, the three edges, the core library, and how a change becomes a running thing, with a table of what each property is designed against and what must exist before it can be built.
03-DESIGN / 01-to-be
The mesh being built toward. Every statement here traces to a record in
02-DECISIONS/; nothing arrives by drafting.
A document here describes an intention. What currently runs is in
00-as-is/, and the two are never merged — when something ships, the as-is
document is written and this one's status becomes implemented.
| Document | Covers | Rests on |
|---|---|---|
00-work-breakdown.md |
How the decomposition gets built, in what order, and where a human must look | ADR 0015 |
01-end-to-end-testing.md |
The lab: a real mesh a change can be run against before it reaches nodes | ADR 0016, 0029 |
02-scenario-declaration.md |
What a scenario declares — the underlay, and what to place on it | ADR 0031 |
03-scenario-lifecycle.md |
What happens to a scenario — raise, snapshot, restore, move, destroy | ADR 0032 |
04-lab-installation.md |
Getting the lab onto a clean machine, and why it verifies capability rather than installation | ADR 0008 |
05-the-node-host.md |
Tier 0 — the one thing installed by hand, and the only thing that changes a machine | ADR 0037 |
06-the-control-plane.md |
Tier 2 — what the term means, and the test for what belongs in it | ADR 0037 |
07-the-substrate.md |
Tier 1 — what the control plane consumes and cannot grant itself | ADR 0038, 0048 |
08-connectivity.md |
One context in full — overlay, resolution, exposure, filtering, certificates | ADR 0049, 0050, 0051, 0055 |
09-the-node-lifecycle.md |
How a machine becomes a node, stays one, and stops being one | ADR 0038, 0051 |
10-delivery.md |
Modules, the three edges, and how a change becomes a running thing | ADR 0063, 0064, 0065 |
Not yet written
- The remaining six contexts.
ADR 0055
settles the list at seven;
connectivityis the first written in full (08) and the other six do not exist yet. The work breakdown says in what order they are needed. Domain grouping outside the core.Not needed. ADR 0017 is superseded by ADR 0044: there is no domain module to group into, so there is no domain list to settle. Relationships are edges, and grouping is a tag and a query.