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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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Decisions, Questions, Rejected

This directory holds structured planning records that pql parses into pql.db. Each record is a ### [DQR]-N: Title heading inside a markdown file. Files live in three per-type subdirectories:

  • decisions/<domain>.md — confirmed design decisions
  • questions/<domain>.md — open questions that may resolve into decisions or rejected proposals
  • rejected/<domain>.md — rejected proposals (kept for the audit trail)

The parser infers domain from the filename stem and record type from the parent subdirectory.

D-records that propose implementation work link to initiative-type tickets via decision_ref. Run pql decisions show <id> --with-tickets to inspect implementation status.

Start with this canonical set; create files as records land in each domain:

  • architecture — structural commitments (storage, layering, languages, libraries)
  • process — team workflow (commits, branches, releases, reviews)
  • design — user-facing surface (UX, UI, public APIs)
  • coding-conventions — team-internal code shape (style, lint, file layout)
  • testing — quality strategy (coverage, layers, gates)

You might also want, project-permitting:

  • accessibility — if you ship user-facing software
  • security — if you handle user data or network surfaces
  • licensing — if you release open-source or commercial
  • documentation — if user-docs are non-trivial
  • deployment — if shipping is non-trivial
  • performance — if you have perf budgets / SLOs

Decisions

Open questions

Rejected