Implementation and maintenance
Ownership, versioning, and contribution
Keep the reference connected to the product as components and workflows change.
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Ownership
This pilot establishes documentation conventions for Thomas’s Radarist project. It does not claim a company-wide governance program previously existed. The process below is a proposed operating model for keeping the new reference useful.
Change process
| Stage | Required action |
|---|---|
| Propose | Identify the user/task need and check existing component families before adding a variant |
| Specify | Describe anatomy, tokens, states, content and keyboard behavior |
| Implement | Change the source application deliberately; do not silently rewrite it through screenshot tooling |
| Verify | Check responsive layouts, themes, meaningful states and relevant accessibility behavior |
| Document | Update the component/pattern pages, source audit, asset manifest and applied examples |
| Release | Record the revision, date, compatibility changes and unresolved gaps |
| Deprecate | Explain the replacement and migration before removing a documented contract |
Drift controls
- Source hashes provide a trigger for review, not automatic proof of inconsistency.
- If a palette or component changes, inspect both isolated specimens and the screens that use it.
- Treat data/model changes as documentation changes when they alter a workflow or action’s meaning.
- Do not retain a screenshot as current evidence after the underlying behavior has materially changed.
Pilot release
Documentation version 0.1 records the first source-grounded Radarist reference, with a WIP product status and explicit readiness register. Future releases should record concrete changes and verification rather than promotional claims.
Reusable template
The site renderer, section hierarchy, structured block types, screenshot controls, source references and readiness model can carry forward. Every other project still needs its own audit, authored decisions, component examples and realistic capture fixtures.
Reference downloads
Related topics
Source audit: 2026-10-07 · Revision 0103e2549959 · Documentation v0.1