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Backlog Process

Active product work is GitHub-primary and documented in the owning product section. Historical catalogs reserve old IDs but do not represent current work.

Create Or Activate Work

  1. Revalidate the request against current main, current product direction, and the owning product's scope.
  2. Reject speculative, retired-product, or low-value work instead of parking it indefinitely.
  3. Allocate the next unused product ID against both active and retained history.
  4. Create the owning repository issue and add it to eMuleBB Roadmap Project #3.
  5. Add the local engineering specification under the product's active/items/ directory and link it from that product's active index.
  6. Record constraints, acceptance criteria, validation, and required evidence; do not create a parallel plan or review ledger.

Rust items use RUST-<CLASS>-<NNN>. The migrated CI-054 item retains its legacy ID and must not be renumbered. New MFC maintenance work requires a new open emulebb/emulebb issue and explicit Project #3 placement; the archived MFC Project #2 is never reactivated for forward work.

Update Active Work

  • GitHub owns workflow status, product, phase, priority, milestone, discussion, and pull request linkage.
  • The local item mirrors required metadata and owns durable implementation detail and evidence.
  • Keep acceptance criteria and evidence in the owning item. Delete temporary branch plans after reconciliation.

Close Or Reclassify Work

  1. Revalidate the result against current main.
  2. Update the owning issue and Project #3 status.
  3. Record final implementation, evidence, decision, or rejection rationale.
  4. Move detailed closed Rust records to the Rust history directory and remove them from the active index.
  5. For a retired or consolidated product family, add the stable ID and archival disposition to its compact catalog and remove the standalone item file.
  6. Do not keep DEFERRED, closed, ownerless, or superseded items under an active directory.

Validation

python scripts\docs-item-taxonomy-check.py
python scripts\docs-structure-check.py
python scripts\github-roadmap-check.py
python scripts\github-roadmap-check.py --product emulebb-rust
python -m mkdocs build --strict

Use --github with the roadmap checker when the token has project scope and the task includes live issue/project reconciliation.