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jpmschweitzerandClaude 4d515ce51e scaffold decisions/ with backlog from planning sessions
Adopt settled-reach's Q&D record convention. Confirmed decisions
live under decisions/<domain>.md as D-NNN; open questions under
questions-<domain>.md as Q-NNN; rejected alternatives in rejected.md
as R-NNN. Markdown is source of truth; .pql/pql.db (added later) is a
query index.

Backlog captured from the Tier-0 Flutter planning sessions: bare
WidgetsApp, theme pipeline, kernel admission rule, feature-first
layout, a11y + i18n as Tier-0 contracts, test pyramid, kanban over
Scrum, pql-owns-planning, Python stopgap sunset clause.

ADR migration (D-001, D-003-D-006 confirmed, R-002 rejected) is
staged for the next commit so the diff stays readable.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-21 17:10:42 +02:00

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# Open Questions — Process + Tooling
Editor tab, tree-sitter, icon set, theme hot-reload, kernel DB access.
Tooling-domain questions currently live here too. Split into
`questions-tooling.md` if this file outgrows ~350 lines.
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### Q-015: Editor tab — full LSP vs tree-sitter-only highlight
- **Status:** Open
- **Question:** Tier 2's editor tab: do we integrate a full LSP story (analyzer server + hovers + completions + diagnostics) or ship tree-sitter-only syntax highlighting and defer LSP to Tier 6?
- **Context:** Full LSP is a large subsystem; tree-sitter is a weekend. User is a heavy LSP user in other IDEs — missing it hurts. CLAUDE.md flags this as "decide during Tier 2."
- **Source:** CLAUDE.md "Open questions" footer.
### Q-016: `tree-sitter-dart` grammar maintenance
- **Status:** Open
- **Question:** `UserNobody14/tree-sitter-dart` is archived. `nielsenko/tree-sitter-dart` is the maintained fork. Do we pin `nielsenko/`, mirror it in-repo, or lean on the Dart analyzer's own semantic output and skip tree-sitter for Dart?
- **Context:** If tree-sitter is the Tier-2 answer ([Q-015](#q-015-editor-tab-full-lsp-vs-tree-sitter-only)), grammar sourcing matters.
- **Source:** 2026-04-21 planning.
### Q-017: Icon set growth
- **Status:** Open
- **Question:** Hand-drawn `CustomPainter` catalogue (total control, pixel-perfect on every theme, slow to grow) vs SVG + parser (faster to grow, one more dep, theming is harder)?
- **Context:** We rejected Nerd-font glyphs ([R-006](rejected.md#r-006-nerd-font-glyph-icons)); something has to fill the gap.
- **Source:** 2026-04-21 planning.
### Q-018: Theme hot-reload in release builds
- **Status:** Open
- **Question:** The theme picker supports live-reloading a YAML during development. Does the same path stay open in release builds (user tweaks `~/.config/clide/themes/foo.yaml` and the app re-reads on focus) or is release-build theming restricted to built-in + settings-UI-installed themes?
- **Context:** Hot-reload is powerful for theme authoring but opens a file-watch + re-parse path in release code.
- **Source:** 2026-04-21 planning.
### Q-019: (withdrawn)
- **Status:** Resolved → n/a
- **Note:** Earlier floated as "ticket markdown mirror vs SQLite" — no longer a split question. Markdown mirror is tracked in [Q-022](questions-architecture.md#q-022-ticket-persistence-strategy); SQLite is the current stopgap per [D-040](process.md#d-040-python-stopgap-under-toolsscriptsplan).
### Q-020: Kernel DB service — namespaced SQL access?
- **Status:** Open
- **Question:** Do extensions get namespaced SQL access to `.clide/clide.db` (tables prefixed `ext_<id>_…`) or stay on the `kernel.settings` key/value facade? Admission-level question ([D-012](architecture.md#d-012-kernel-admission-rule)).
- **Context:** Some extensions (tickets, canvas, graph) naturally want relational storage. K/V gets awkward fast.
- **Source:** 2026-04-21 planning.
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