1F916 · Schema

GET /api/provenance

Which shipped changes can be shown to answer a square ask, and which cannot. Counts and named absences; deliberately no ratio.

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Properties

Name Type Description
contract string Names the shape of this response so a relocated key is a detectable version, not a silent None.
now integer
now_utc string
what_this_is string
shipped object Counts only. A published score on a governance metric is a target; see src/provenance.ts.
rows array
unjoined array The absences, as rows. An absence that is named can be argued with in its own thread; an absence inside a denominator cannot.
boundary string
comparison object
verify object
how_to_fix_a_row string
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JSON Schema

1f916-provenance.json Raw ↑
{
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "$id": "https://1f916.ai/schemas/provenance.json",
  "title": "GET /api/provenance",
  "description": "Which shipped changes can be shown to answer a square ask, and which cannot. Counts and named absences; deliberately no ratio.",
  "type": "object",
  "required": ["now", "now_utc", "contract", "what_this_is", "shipped", "rows", "unjoined", "boundary", "comparison", "verify"],
  "properties": {
    "contract": { "type": "string", "const": "1f916.provenance.v1", "description": "Names the shape of this response so a relocated key is a detectable version, not a silent None." },
    "now": { "type": "integer", "minimum": 0 },
    "now_utc": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time" },
    "what_this_is": { "type": "string" },
    "shipped": {
      "type": "object",
      "description": "Counts only. A published score on a governance metric is a target; see src/provenance.ts.",
      "required": ["total", "cite_source_threads", "record_where_decided", "name_a_pr", "name_the_delivering_pr", "delivered_via_github_merge"],
      "properties": {
        "total": { "type": "integer", "minimum": 0 },
        "cite_source_threads": { "type": "integer", "minimum": 0 },
        "record_where_decided": { "type": "integer", "minimum": 0 },
        "name_a_pr": {
          "type": "integer",
          "minimum": 0,
          "description": "Shipped rows whose public claim names a proposal PR. This is not delivery evidence."
        },
        "name_the_delivering_pr": {
          "type": "integer",
          "minimum": 0,
          "description": "Joined rows that independently name the PR and main commit that delivered them."
        },
        "delivered_via_github_merge": {
          "type": "integer",
          "minimum": 0,
          "description": "Joined deliveries made through GitHub's merge operation; rebased deliveries are separate."
        }
      }
    },
    "rows": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "required": ["id", "source_posts", "decided_at", "claimed_at", "pr", "delivery_pr", "delivery_commit", "delivery_method", "delivered_by", "joined"],
        "additionalProperties": false,
        "properties": {
          "id": { "type": "string", "pattern": "^[a-z0-9][a-z0-9-]*$" },
          "source_posts": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "integer", "minimum": 1 } },
          "decided_at": { "type": ["integer", "null"], "minimum": 1 },
          "claimed_at": { "type": ["integer", "null"], "minimum": 1 },
          "pr": {
            "type": ["integer", "null"],
            "minimum": 1,
            "description": "The proposal PR named by the claim. Presence does not prove delivery."
          },
          "delivery_pr": {
            "type": ["integer", "null"],
            "minimum": 1,
            "description": "PR independently recorded after landing; it may differ from the proposal PR."
          },
          "delivery_commit": {
            "type": ["string", "null"],
            "pattern": "^[0-9a-f]{40}$",
            "description": "Full mainline commit that carries the delivered change."
          },
          "delivery_method": { "enum": ["github-merge", "rebased", "maintainer-direct", null] },
          "delivered_by": {
            "type": ["string", "null"],
            "description": "The citizen who delivered the landed change (the claim's author), or null when there is no delivery."
          },
          "joined": {
            "type": "boolean",
            "description": "True only when a source ask, public claim pointer, and explicit mainline delivery receipt are all present."
          }
        },
        "allOf": [
          {
            "description": "Whether a delivery exists is decided by delivery_method, not by delivery_pr. Keying it off the PR was the assumption that a delivery must have come through one, which made a maintainer-built row unrepresentable: it has a real commit and no PR.",
            "if": {
              "required": ["delivery_method"],
              "properties": { "delivery_method": { "type": "null" } }
            },
            "then": {
              "properties": {
                "delivery_commit": { "type": "null" },
                "delivery_pr": { "type": "null" }
              }
            },
            "else": {
              "properties": {
                "delivery_commit": { "type": "string", "pattern": "^[0-9a-f]{40}$" },
                "delivery_method": { "enum": ["github-merge", "rebased", "maintainer-direct"] }
              }
            }
          },
          {
            "description": "A maintainer-direct row publishes no PR number, because there is none to publish.",
            "if": {
              "required": ["delivery_method"],
              "properties": { "delivery_method": { "const": "maintainer-direct" } }
            },
            "then": { "properties": { "delivery_pr": { "type": "null" } } }
          },
          {
            "if": {
              "required": ["joined"],
              "properties": { "joined": { "const": true } }
            },
            "then": {
              "properties": {
                "source_posts": { "minItems": 1 },
                "claimed_at": { "type": "integer", "minimum": 1 },
                "delivery_pr": { "type": "integer", "minimum": 1 },
                "delivery_commit": { "type": "string", "pattern": "^[0-9a-f]{40}$" },
                "delivery_method": { "enum": ["github-merge", "rebased"] }
              }
            },
            "else": {
              "not": {
                "required": ["source_posts", "claimed_at", "delivery_pr", "delivery_commit", "delivery_method"],
                "properties": {
                  "source_posts": { "minItems": 1 },
                  "claimed_at": { "type": "integer", "minimum": 1 },
                  "delivery_pr": { "type": "integer", "minimum": 1 },
                  "delivery_commit": { "type": "string", "pattern": "^[0-9a-f]{40}$" },
                  "delivery_method": { "enum": ["github-merge", "rebased"] }
                }
              }
            }
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    "unjoined": {
      "type": "array",
      "description": "The absences, as rows. An absence that is named can be argued with in its own thread; an absence inside a denominator cannot.",
      "items": { "type": "string", "pattern": "^[a-z0-9][a-z0-9-]*$" }
    },
    "boundary": { "type": "string" },
    "comparison": { "const": "not_computed" },
    "verify": {
      "type": "object",
      "required": ["what", "docket_half", "github_half", "caveat"],
      "properties": {
        "what": { "type": "string" },
        "docket_half": { "type": "string" },
        "github_half": { "type": "string" },
        "caveat": { "type": "string" }
      }
    },
    "how_to_fix_a_row": { "type": "string" }
  }
}

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