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🟡 (20:08) Assistant reported that the server restart removed /tmp/opencode/institutional-transition-adjudication-9642983578/v1.2-adjudication-package.json; exact jq error was jq: error: Could not open file /tmp/opencode/institutional-transition-adjudication-9642983578/v1.2-adjudication-package.json: No such file or directory.
🟡 (20:20) Assistant declared the assignment blocked because filesystem searches under /tmp/opencode found neither /tmp/opencode/institutional-transition-adjudication-9642983578/documents.json nor /tmp/opencode/institutional-transition-adjudication-9642983578/v1.2-adjudication-package.json; without them, exact quotes, source provenance, and frozen responses could not be revalidated under the frozen-input constraint.
🔴 (20:21) User stated the blocker was resolved and replaced the removed /tmp copies with durable, hash-verified files: /home/byk/Code/institutional-transition-lab/cases/review/oss-governance-adjudication-v1/documents.json with SHA-256 2a62ab05687982c112a29f6126227c26c3ff8defc89ca64662753aaf85c3c0ce, and /home/byk/Code/institutional-transition-lab/cases/review/oss-governance-adjudication-v1/v1.2-coding-package.json with SHA-256 14644759f53071adfe1173d4e25bb01931b8c1591fa8a48295dbd0556a754769.
🔴 (20:21) User stated the durable files are byte-identical documents.json and v1.2-adjudication-package.json members of pinned artifact 9642983578.
🔴 [requested-adjudication] (20:21) User again directed completion of all 10 adjudications in the established order using the durable files.
🔴 [enforced-workflow] (20:21) User required research only, no file edits, and preservation of all prior source-first, performance-blinded, exact-quote, provenance, evidence-bound, proposal/effective-date, and abstention constraints.
🔴 (20:21) User required either the complete JSON array containing all 10 adjudications or a new exact blocker.
🔴 (20:21) User directed: “Never return empty output.”
🟡 (20:21) Assistant verified both durable-file SHA-256 hashes exactly matched the supplied values.
🟡 (20:21) Assistant committed to query only source evidence and coding responses, never timing or other performance fields.
🟡 (20:21) Assistant’s interim adjudication finding was that most records represented proposals, product/control decisions, or documentation without an institutional edge; only the note-publication rule and merged 2025 governance instruments appeared to support institutional changes.
🔴 (20:23) User supplied evidence for opentofu-github-pr-1650: published_on=2024-05-15; sources=body, pr_metadata, patch:0; files_listing_complete=true, patch_selection_truncated=false, patch_unavailable_count=0, and source_text_truncated=false. (meaning May 15, 2024)
🔴 (20:23) User supplied opentofu-github-pr-1650 body evidence: “Tracked through older meeting minutes that were not posted and added their summaries here” and “TSC members who take notes will now post these regularly.”
🔴 (20:23) User supplied the exact opentofu-github-pr-1650 patch rule: “From now on, whomever takes notes during the TSC meeting will also open the PR posting the public notes.”
🔴 (20:24) User supplied merged-PR metadata with base_sha=6f0d3d3a07a49309b30960d57225c9f7c701e9a9, head_sha=da4ac00ca09d1d9e06e47efd77523a235d49f10c, merge_commit_sha=59d24390b712b87954ee175c38912e56d8f5d974, changed_files=43, draft=false, merged=true, state=closed, and merged_at=2025-05-23T12:18:56Z. (meaning May 23, 2025)
🔴 (20:24) User supplied governance patch evidence stating: “The Technical Steering Committee (the ‘TSC’) will be responsible for all technical oversight of the open source Project”; “A Contributor may become a Committer by approval of the TSC”; “A Committer may be removed by a majority approval of the TSC”; “The TSC has ultimate authority over all projects in the OpenTofu organization”; “The TSC may delegate decision-making authority to maintainers of specific projects”; and the TSC “retains the right to overrule decisions as necessary, though it should show restraint in doing so.”
🔴 (20:25) User supplied source text headed: “The TSC never posted on GitHub summary since February.”
🔴 (20:25) User supplied the corresponding ownership/action text: “We should discuss who owns this”; “AI: @Roni Frantchi will backtrack and post the summaries of all meetings dating back to Feb”; and “From now on, whomever takes notes during the TSC meeting will also open the PR posting the public notes.”
🔴 (20:25) User supplied source evidence that the decision on changing the docs license in the charter to Mozilla, as requested by the Linux Foundation, was “Yes.”
🟡 (20:25) Assistant found the edge-bearing evidence for PR #1650 exact and complete; it found PR #2830 contained direct governance provisions and merge metadata, but its 43-file patch selection was explicitly truncated.
🔴 (20:26) User supplied frozen coding-package design metadata: schema_version=1, coding_id="oss-governance-enriched-coding-v1", model_input_fields=["entity_id","publisher","published_on","source_type","sources","evidence_bounds"], outcome_data_used=false, transition_dates_excluded=true, and design_status="performance_blinded_model_informed_development".
🔴 (20:27) User supplied record/source inventory: opentofu-github-issue-1353 published 2024-03-08, github_issue, source body, not patch-truncated/source-truncated; opentofu-github-issue-2109 published 2024-10-28, same source/bounds; opentofu-github-issue-2573 published 2025-03-07, same source/bounds; opentofu-github-issue-258 published 2023-09-04, same source/bounds; and opentofu-github-issue-340 published 2023-09-07, same source/bounds.
🔴 (20:27) User supplied PR source inventory: opentofu-github-pr-1010 published 2023-12-14, sources body,pr_metadata,patch:0, not patch-truncated/source-truncated; opentofu-github-pr-1107 published 2024-01-11, same sources/bounds; opentofu-github-pr-1152 published 2024-01-19, same sources/bounds; and opentofu-github-pr-1650 published 2024-05-15, same sources/bounds.
🔴 (20:27) User supplied opentofu-github-pr-2830 source inventory: published 2025-05-20, sources body,pr_metadata,patch:0,patch:1,patch:2, patch_selection_truncated=true, and source_text_truncated=false. (meaning May 20, 2025)
🔴 (20:29) User supplied opentofu-github-pr-1650 meeting-minutes patch beginning with the 2024-05-07 agenda and an “RFC: Init-time Constant Evaluation Proposal,” describing a composable language addition intended to address module sources using variables/locals, providers for_each, module provider mappings, backend configurations, known lifecycle attributes, and known variable defaults/validation. (meaning May 7, 2024)
🔴 (20:29) User supplied the PR body title “OpenTofu Charter and Governance,” describing a governance structure developed through discussion between OpenTofu’s founding members and the Linux Foundation, identifying initial TSC members as existing role-holders representing invested organizations plus the current Technical Lead, and framing the change as movement from the “Cathedral” toward the “Bazaar.”
🔴 (20:30) User supplied governance provisions requiring: addition of a new TSC member by a two-thirds supermajority of existing TSC members; removal for cause by a two-thirds supermajority excluding the member concerned; and amendment of the governance document by a two-thirds vote of the entire TSC subject to LF Projects approval.
🔴 (20:32) User supplied the new OpenTofu Governance document’s TSC membership process in exact order: 1. nomination by an existing TSC member; 2. demonstrated significant contributions through code, documentation, community engagement/support, or technical leadership; 3. approval by a two-thirds supermajority of existing TSC members; 4. addition to the TSC list and grant of appropriate project-resource access rights.
🔴 (20:32) User supplied TSC termination/resignation rules: voluntary written resignation requires no acceptance vote; inactivity means no substantial participation for 3 consecutive months and removal requires a majority of active TSC members plus at least 14 days’ notice; removal for cause requires a two-thirds supermajority excluding the affected member and an opportunity to respond; loss of affiliation that violates voting-power restrictions may trigger rebalancing by TSC consensus or vote.
🔴 (20:32) User supplied TSC responsibilities including coordinating project technical direction, interpreting the Technical Charter, addressing legal matters with the Series Manager, and approving sub-project or system proposals.
🔴 (20:33) User supplied a Technical Charter revision table listing “Initial Adoption | September 15, 2023” and “Amendment | May 20, 2025.”
🔴 (20:33) User supplied charter text establishing OpenTofu as a Series of LF Projects, LLC; defining the mission as developing and preserving open-source infrastructure as code; stating the project intends to be impartial and community-driven; and assigning the TSC responsibility for all technical oversight.
🔴 (20:33) User supplied charter membership terms: initial TSC voting members are Committers listed as “TSC Members” in the repository’s CONTRIBUTING file; members serve until resignation or replacement by the TSC; the TSC may choose and document an alternative membership method in CONTRIBUTING; and TSC meetings are intended to be public.
🔴 (20:35) User supplied May 7, 2024 meeting decisions: the Init-time Constant Evaluation RFC was accepted; the core team was asked to test performance rigorously; the TSC strongly preferred an iterative rollout beginning 1. module source resolution, 2. dynamic provider config, 3. “…”. (meaning May 7, 2024)
🔴 (20:35) User supplied versioning decisions: publicly document release cadence and semver strategy; consider perceptions of a slower OpenTofu release cadence; continue the current versioning scheme with next version 1.8; open a community issue about changing versioning; and open an issue addressing provider constraints as OpenTofu and HashiCorp Terraform add features in different versions.
🔴 (20:35) User supplied the Backends as Plugins decision: “Reconsider in 6 months.”

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