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migrate DQR tree to governance/ layout (pql D-21)
pql 1.4.30 introduces a per-type subdirectory layout for decision
records: governance/{decisions,questions,rejected}/<domain>.md. The
parser infers record type from the parent subdir and domain from
the filename stem, replacing the flat decisions/<file>.md layout
with questions-X and rejected prefixes.

Moves:
- 6 D-files to governance/decisions/ (accessibility, architecture,
  extensions, process, testing, tooling)
- 5 Q-files to governance/questions/ (stripped the questions- prefix)
- rejected.md split by domain to governance/rejected/{architecture
  (5), process (4), accessibility (1), testing (1)}.md — split per
  cross-reference target.

Drops:
- decisions/README.md (auto-regenerated as governance/README.md by
  pql init below the records marker)
- decisions/questions.md (hand-curated index pointing at the per-
  domain files; redundant once pql generates the index, and the
  "load-bearing" curation was already present in each Q-record's
  Context field).

Convention-driven; not a clide-specific change. Counts unchanged
across migration: 106 decisions, 95 tickets, 134 refs, 0 broken.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-11 18:34:20 +02:00

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Rejected — Process

Alternatives considered and rejected, with rationale preserved for future reference.


R-6: Nerd-font glyph icons

  • Rejected: 2026-04-21
  • Reason: TUI hangover from the Python-era clide under legacy/. Not desktop-native; forces a font dependency; doesn't theme consistently. Clide uses custom icon primitives (Tier 6 revisits with proper icon-set design).
  • Cross-reference: Q-17

R-9: Port planning tooling into clide

  • Rejected: 2026-04-21
  • Reason: Earlier in the planning session the assumption was "clide owns Dart subcommands for decisions + tickets." That breaks the day a contributor works in a terminal or in VS Code / JetBrains — they have no clide binary to run. Reversing: pql owns planning long-term (see D-39); clide consumes via shell-out.
  • Cross-reference: D-39

R-10: Python-script stopgap under tooling/db/

  • Rejected: 2026-04-21
  • Reason: Location, not language. Settled-reach puts scripts at tooling/db/ — copying that path here creates a script-pollution problem: every project using the pattern commits its own copy. The accepted Python port (D-40) lives at tools/scripts/plan, clearly signalled as dev-tooling and time-limited.
  • Cross-reference: D-40

R-11: Permanent stopgap

  • Rejected: 2026-04-21
  • Reason: If the Python port under tools/scripts/plan outlasts pql's feature parity, delete it. The deletion commit should be one changeset: remove tools/scripts/plan, remove its Makefile target (decisions-validate rewires to pql decisions validate), add a CHANGELOG.md entry under Removed, and verify .pql/pql.db still opens under the new pql binary.
  • Cross-reference: D-40