Project Standards
Versioned standards with schemas, adoption mechanisms, validation, and drift gates that a repository can be held to.
Identification
Purpose
A convention that lives in someone’s memory is not a standard. Project Standards turns repository conventions into versioned packages a repository can adopt, be validated against, and be shown to have drifted from.
The intended operator is whoever maintains a set of repositories that are supposed to agree with each other.
Operating model
A catalog pins a release. A repository adopts packages from that release, and the adoption is recorded locally rather than inferred. Validation then answers a narrow question: does this repository still match what it adopted?
Ownership is explicit. Some files belong to the standard and are managed; others belong to the consumer and are never rewritten. That distinction is what makes an upgrade safe to run unattended — the tool knows what it is allowed to touch.
Practices
Control is the ownership model: managed regions, consumer regions, and a refusal to edit across the line.
Model is the schema work. A standard that cannot be expressed as a schema cannot be checked.
Verify is validation and drift detection, which is what turns a standard from a document into a gate.
Recover is the upgrade path. A repository that has fallen behind needs a route forward that does not begin with discarding local work.
Architecture
The pinned catalog is the authority; the CLI is a way to act on it. Packages are versioned independently so a repository can move one concern forward without moving all of them.
The rejected shortcut was a single global configuration shared across repositories. Shared mutable state turns every repository’s upgrade into every other repository’s problem.
Evidence
The repository is public under Apache-2.0 and carries tagged releases. This site’s own quality gate is one of its consumers.
Availability
Use directly open-source
Open source under Apache-2.0, with versioned releases. Read the source and adopt it directly.
Capabilities demonstrated
Repeatable work this system is evidence for. The relationship is authored on this record.
Custom technical tools and CLIs
established
Focused command-line tools with an explicit contract, deterministic behaviour, and failure modes that can be tested.
Technical information and document systems
established
Systems that keep technical documents and standards correct over time, with the change to each one planned before it is applied.
Venture and operational-system design
emerging
Turning an experiment into explicit operating structure — stated boundaries, written decisions, and gates something other than intent enforces.
Related records
Evidence
- public Canonical repository, Apache-2.0, opens in a new tab
- public Tagged releases, opens in a new tab
Systems
Stack
Python
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