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DEPLOY-WINDOWS-IIS was a second copy of the manual IIS procedure that had
diverged from the first: a different MySQL version (8.0, which reached end of
life in April), a different port, a different plugin list, and a profile file
that does not exist. Two runbooks for one procedure means a reader follows
whichever they found, and one of them was wrong. INSTALL-WINDOWS-IIS covers
everything it did plus a preflight step and the subpath method, so the one
section it uniquely had - redeploying a hand-built server - is folded in there,
with the plugin-chain step it was missing and a note to back up first, and the
duplicate is gone. Everything that pointed at it now points at the survivor.

Three ADR statuses said something untrue.

ADR-013 said PROPOSED while half of it had shipped and ADR-014 had been accepted
on top of it. A decision that has been implemented and depended upon is not
proposed, and leaving one that way devalues every other status in the index. The
catalog half is still unbuilt, which is the ordinary state of an accepted
decision: accepted means settled, not delivered.

ADR-016 said ACCEPTED for a design where nothing is built - the endpoint and
permissions it describes do not exist, so a reader goes looking for them. The
status stands, because the decision does; the header now says so plainly and
points at where today's credentials actually live.

ADR-003 and ADR-004 were ACCEPTED with their own Decision lines still opening
"**PROPOSED:**", which reads as though the decision was never taken.

And the dashboard proposal carried Status: ACCEPTED, which belongs to a decision
record. A proposal is a proposal; the contract it produced is the ADR.
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Architecture Decision Records

Each ADR captures a single architectural decision: the context, the decision itself, the consequences, and the alternatives considered. ADRs are immutable once accepted. Superseded ADRs stay in this folder with a pointer to the newer ADR.

Status definitions

  • PROPOSED: drafted, awaiting decision
  • ACCEPTED: decision is in effect
  • SUPERSEDED: replaced by a later ADR (link forward)
  • DEPRECATED: no longer in effect, no replacement

Index

ADR Title Status
001 Asset model is the platform contract ACCEPTED
002 Plugin contract versioning (semver) ACCEPTED
003 Plugin distribution model ACCEPTED
004 Deployment topology (per-site instances) ACCEPTED
005 Equipment vs measuringtools plugin scope ACCEPTED
006 Plugin collector contract pattern ACCEPTED
007 Product versioning and releases ACCEPTED
008 Plugin migration ownership (per-plugin chains) ACCEPTED
009 Frontend plugin route gating ACCEPTED
010 Frontend plugin hook contract ACCEPTED
011 Machines rename + modeltypes retyping ACCEPTED
012 GE-Enforce manifest ownership in shopdb ACCEPTED
013 Plugin catalog, curated shelf, and lean per-site builds PROPOSED
014 Schema-lean per-site builds (retire cross-plugin FKs, prune not-installed plugin tables) ACCEPTED
015 Where a site's own data is allowed to live (setting, site directory, or seed) ACCEPTED
016 Credential delivery to the fleet (ShopDB-resolved targeting, encrypted at rest) ACCEPTED

Authoring

When proposing a new decision, copy the most recent ADR as a template, increment the number, and update this index. Do not edit accepted ADRs in place; supersede them with a new one.