From 44f692a04ca9c98a100a738a5a56143594782341 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rae Lovejoy Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2026 22:41:56 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 1/4] docs: close the public documentation batch in START-HERE.md --- START-HERE.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/START-HERE.md b/START-HERE.md index bfbd4ae..16a02ce 100644 --- a/START-HERE.md +++ b/START-HERE.md @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ Root Sequence asks broad questions and routes mechanisms to native fields and me ## Refresh progress -The [professional-refresh checklist](ROADMAP.md) records the published website, repository cleanup, organization profile/registry, and Wiki projection. It keeps the separate context follow-up and work-sample review visible. +The [professional-refresh checklist](ROADMAP.md) records the completed public-documentation batch. The next planned frontier is evidence-based open-PR triage; work-sample review remains separate. ## What to do next From ef97564fc60a481f647fd085626c5dcde344aac7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rae Lovejoy Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2026 22:41:57 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 2/4] docs: close the public documentation batch in PROJECT-CONTEXT.md --- PROJECT-CONTEXT.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/PROJECT-CONTEXT.md b/PROJECT-CONTEXT.md index 075fcc1..c9d46e2 100644 --- a/PROJECT-CONTEXT.md +++ b/PROJECT-CONTEXT.md @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ It is not the whole organization and does not absorb project-specific implementa ## Current reality -The repository contains active and historical writing, sourced research scaffolds, concepts, systems principles, analysis, futures, public artifacts, the Public Seed site source, and small navigation tools. The canonical research method formalizes the project’s route–synthesize–test–build workflow. Working, review-pending Epistemic Contrast and Deliberative Inquiry methods make the error-correcting layer explicit: broaden the model before convergence, route claims to stronger evidence and native methods, preserve dissent and uncertainty, and revise after observing consequences. The professional-refresh website is published, and this repository’s public documentation cleanup merged on October 23, 2026 (Pacific). The organization profile and registry corrections merged later on October 23, 2026 (Pacific), followed by the public Wiki projection. The approved organization bio and repository metadata repairs are live, and work-sample drafts retain their separate review state. The October 19 (UTC) professional-refresh website has exact-source approval and a successful GitHub Pages deployment. HTTPS apex and www responses match the generated release, and a browser load confirms the published page. This approval covers website presentation and mechanical publication-state substitutions; research papers and frameworks retain their own review status. The repository also temporarily hosts the public bootstrap seed for Commons of Inquiry & Creation under `incubator/`; that seed is explicitly non-canonical here, proposes a future standalone repository, and does not establish an operating institution. Maturity and evidence vary by document. Root Sequence is not a finished theory, validated universal model, deployed social system, or single doctrine. +The repository contains active and historical writing, sourced research scaffolds, concepts, systems principles, analysis, futures, public artifacts, the Public Seed site source, and small navigation tools. The canonical research method formalizes the project’s route–synthesize–test–build workflow. Working, review-pending Epistemic Contrast and Deliberative Inquiry methods make the error-correcting layer explicit: broaden the model before convergence, route claims to stronger evidence and native methods, preserve dissent and uncertainty, and revise after observing consequences. The professional-refresh website is published, and this repository’s public documentation cleanup merged on October 23, 2026 (Pacific). The organization profile and registry corrections merged later on October 23, 2026 (Pacific), followed by the public Wiki projection. The approved organization bio and repository metadata repairs are live. The public-documentation batch is complete; the next planned frontier is evidence-based open-PR triage, while work-sample drafts retain their separate review state. The October 19 (UTC) professional-refresh website has exact-source approval and a successful GitHub Pages deployment. HTTPS apex and www responses match the generated release, and a browser load confirms the published page. This approval covers website presentation and mechanical publication-state substitutions; research papers and frameworks retain their own review status. The repository also temporarily hosts the public bootstrap seed for Commons of Inquiry & Creation under `incubator/`; that seed is explicitly non-canonical here, proposes a future standalone repository, and does not establish an operating institution. Maturity and evidence vary by document. Root Sequence is not a finished theory, validated universal model, deployed social system, or single doctrine. ## Repository structure From aad76a5b3257ba8dcde1358ac74dba8c61722c10 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rae Lovejoy Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2026 22:41:59 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 3/4] docs: close the public documentation batch in ROADMAP.md --- ROADMAP.md | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/ROADMAP.md b/ROADMAP.md index 94b6837..065b55c 100644 --- a/ROADMAP.md +++ b/ROADMAP.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # Root Sequence professional refresh -**Canonical progress checklist · started 2026-10-17 · Public website, repository documentation, organization profile, and Wiki projection published · Context follow-up pending** +**Canonical progress checklist · started 2026-10-17 · Public documentation batch complete · Open-PR triage next** This plan improves the public introduction to Root Sequence as an independent interdisciplinary research initiative started by Rae Lovejoy. Its exploratory writing, technical questions, social inquiry, and speculative work remain part of the project. The [research method](research/method.md), [repository map](root_map.md), and [ecosystem map](ECOSYSTEM.md) retain their existing authority. @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ This is the single checklist for this refresh. Project-specific backlogs remain | [x] | P1-08 | done | Supported site review complete: Take part, **4/4 footer passages and 7/7 panel refinements applied**. Read the seven-section flow; checked wide/narrow layout, section navigation and focus, native disclosures, reading controls, project panels, and script-free reading. See the [page-pass record](site/COPY-REVIEW.md#wiki-panel-and-full-page-review-october-18-2026-pacific) and [validation](site/VALIDATION.md#wiki-panel-and-full-page-review-2026-10-18-pacific). Full accessibility review and Rae’s exact-source decision remain separate. | | [x] | P1-10 | done | Prepare, verify, and publish organization-profile consistency in [profile #10](https://github.com/Root-Sequence/.github/pull/10), merged on 2026-10-23 (Pacific) as `7ea6c4b7cd191775a17d951935c7f9927f691f70`. The published profile reuses the approved site opening/invitation and project passages, preserves all six research limits, broadens Computing beyond OS-only scope, contextualizes the founder, retains AI/accessibility disclosure, fixes the fuller-explanation route, and labels both Liberated Intelligence and Liberation Mass private pending substantial revision. | | [x] | P1-05 | done | Rae explicitly approved website publication on 2026-10-19 (UTC). [Website-only PR #47](https://github.com/Root-Sequence/root-sequence/pull/47) merged as `b179a7fa56252dfd9fefbb3f93dcf1a9e1dd3ec6`; [Pages run](https://github.com/Root-Sequence/root-sequence/actions/runs/39211072192) succeeded. Live HTTPS apex and www return the exact generated release. The approval record matches the reviewed source; the gate still rejects historical/stale approval. No other draft or research endorsement follows. | -| [ ] | P1-11 | in progress | [Root #46](https://github.com/Root-Sequence/root-sequence/pull/46) merged on 2026-10-23 (Pacific) as `ec9ba2f693d482450e2361cde01a9b010089a91e`; [profile #10](https://github.com/Root-Sequence/.github/pull/10) merged later that evening as `7ea6c4b7cd191775a17d951935c7f9927f691f70`; [Wiki #15](https://github.com/Root-Sequence/wiki/pull/15) then merged as `7b7d15120e289ab2798476afaf928f6a567c6172`. The website, repository documentation, organization profile/registry, seven-public-repository Wiki snapshot, and privacy corrections for Liberated Intelligence and Liberation Mass are published. Existing [status follow-up #51](https://github.com/Root-Sequence/root-sequence/pull/51) records these events and the ecosystem-map correction; it is the remaining publication decision in this batch. Unreviewed applicant exercises remain on `review/work-samples-2026-10-23` outside the release. Research, licensing, governance, and private-Wiki changes are not adopted here. | +| [x] | P1-11 | done | The public-documentation batch is complete. [Root #46](https://github.com/Root-Sequence/root-sequence/pull/46) merged as `ec9ba2f693d482450e2361cde01a9b010089a91e`; [profile #10](https://github.com/Root-Sequence/.github/pull/10) merged as `7ea6c4b7cd191775a17d951935c7f9927f691f70`; [Wiki #15](https://github.com/Root-Sequence/wiki/pull/15) merged as `7b7d15120e289ab2798476afaf928f6a567c6172`; and [status follow-up #51](https://github.com/Root-Sequence/root-sequence/pull/51) merged as `c53f704202a6e8db150b9c77c761abfad54b5502`. The website, repository documentation, organization profile/registry, seven-public-repository Wiki snapshot, and privacy corrections for Liberated Intelligence and Liberation Mass are published. Unreviewed applicant exercises remain on `review/work-samples-2026-10-23` outside this release. Research, licensing, governance, and private-Wiki changes were not adopted by the batch. | | [x] | P1-06 | done | Repair the 15 existing reader-check failures: correct one relative link and connect fourteen existing T-003 supporting records from their current open-questions section. The checker now passes all 238 Markdown files. Paper findings, author review, and the independent-comparison boundary remain unchanged. | | [ ] | P1-12 | to do | After P1-11, triage open PRs across Root Sequence against current main and their canonical homes. Read the diffs, check dependencies and overlap, and record a recommendation with evidence for each PR. Keep substantive research and governance proposals separate from routine maintenance. Merge and closure decisions remain individual review decisions; preserve superseded work before proposing closure. | @@ -135,9 +135,9 @@ On **2026-10-17 (Pacific)**, Rae accepted writing block `86204` by replying “b - [Public Wiki: draft PR #15](https://github.com/Root-Sequence/wiki/pull/15), including the build repair and current public/private routing. - [Publication and private-project status: draft PR #51](https://github.com/Root-Sequence/root-sequence/pull/51), reusing the existing post-merge context update. - Review the canonical repository first, then the profile. The profile overlap has been reconciled; existing research and commons drafts remain open for separate substantive review. -- **Next supported review:** Review publication of status follow-up #51. Root #46, organization profile #10, and Wiki #15 are merged; the approved metadata, registry, build-routing, and public/private projection corrections are live. Work-sample review and private/public Wiki reconciliation remain later work. +- **Next supported review:** Begin P1-12’s evidence-based open-PR triage against current default branches and canonical homes. Work-sample review and private/public Wiki reconciliation remain separate later work. -Current status: **23 done, 6 to do, 1 in progress, 0 blocked** across 30 tasks. P1-06 navigation repair is complete. P1-11 remains in progress only for the status-follow-up publication decision. Root #46, organization profile #10, and Wiki #15 are merged; the approved bio, metadata, registry, build routing, and public/private projection corrections are live. +Current status: **24 done, 6 to do, 0 in progress, 0 blocked** across 30 tasks. P1-11 is complete: Root #46, organization profile #10, Wiki #15, and status follow-up #51 are merged. The approved bio, metadata, registry, build routing, and public/private projection corrections are live. P1-12 open-PR triage is next. ## Accepted name context and first related-project description From cd64970febdd037679e9b28fc3b722f36a1a2fe7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rae Lovejoy Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2026 22:42:00 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 4/4] docs: close the public documentation batch in AUDIT.md --- AUDIT.md | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/AUDIT.md b/AUDIT.md index e294247..bba6fe7 100644 --- a/AUDIT.md +++ b/AUDIT.md @@ -298,3 +298,11 @@ Liberation Mass's new private status makes the earlier proposed private-README h Reader-document validation passes all 238 Markdown files. The Wiki public/private boundary check and MkDocs 1.6.1 strict build pass after the registry refresh, with 35 canonical entities and 14 project lenses. The organization registry's visibility values match the live 15-repository snapshot. These are structural and routing checks, not research validation. Profile #10 still awaits code review, and #10, Wiki #15, and status follow-up #51 still need their publication decisions. P1-11 remains in progress. The preserved work samples, unresolved licensing questions, substantive research review, and private/public Wiki freshness comparison retain their separate scopes. + +## Public-documentation batch completed: 2026-10-23 + +This checkpoint supersedes the remaining-publication statements in the preceding section. Dates use Pacific time. + +[Root #46](https://github.com/Root-Sequence/root-sequence/pull/46), [organization profile/registry #10](https://github.com/Root-Sequence/.github/pull/10), [Wiki build/visibility #15](https://github.com/Root-Sequence/wiki/pull/15), and [root status follow-up #51](https://github.com/Root-Sequence/root-sequence/pull/51) are merged. The public website, repository introductions, organization profile and registry, seven-public-repository Wiki projection, and corrected private/revision status for Liberated Intelligence and Liberation Mass are now on their default branches. + +The released documentation preserves project-local authority, research/evidence limits, private-source boundaries, and the separation of work-sample review. It does not adopt research claims, governance proposals, licensing changes, or private-Wiki material. The next planned professional-refresh action is the evidence-based open-PR triage in ROADMAP P1-12.