Historical Verification Archive

For Developers: Quality Assurance History

Note

Archive Purpose: This document consolidates historical verification records from October 2025 development sessions. It is retained for audit trail purposes but is not part of active documentation.

Status: Archived Date Range: October 23, 2025 Archival Date: January 2025

Overview

This archive contains detailed verification records of major documentation and repository improvements made in October 2025. These records demonstrate the quality assurance processes used to ensure all changes were properly completed, tested, and verified.

The original verification documents have been consolidated here to reduce documentation maintenance overhead while preserving the historical record.

Archived Documents

  1. Verification Summary - Comprehensive checklist of all October 2025 changes

  2. Documentation Audit - Version consistency and quality assurance review

  3. GitIgnore Policy Verification - .md file blocking and .gitignore rule verification

  4. Script Reorganization Verification - check_docs_style.sh migration verification

Verification Summary: All Changes Complete

Original Date: October 23, 2025 Status: ✅ ALL VERIFIED

This section confirms that all changes from October 2025 work sessions were properly completed, tested, and verified.

Change Verification Checklist

✅ 1. Script Reorganization

Change: Moved check_docs_style.sh to scripts/utils/

Verification Results:

✅ File Location:
   - New: scripts/utils/check_docs_style.sh (EXISTS)
   - Old: scripts/check_docs_style.sh (REMOVED)

✅ Old Path References:
   - In documentation: 0 active references
   - Only historical/migration docs reference old path

✅ New Path References:
   - Found: 10+ correct references
   - All point to: scripts/utils/check_docs_style.sh

✅ Script Functionality:
   - Executable permissions: Preserved
   - Runs successfully from new location
   - All checks pass

Files Updated:

  1. scripts/utils/check_docs_style.sh - Updated usage comment

  2. docs/sphinx/developer_guide/documentation_style_guide.rst

  3. docs/sphinx/developer_guide/terminology_simplification.rst (5 references)

  4. docs/sphinx/developer_guide/gitignore_verification.rst (3 references)

  5. docs/sphinx/developer_guide/script_reorganization.rst (created)

  6. docs/sphinx/index.rst - Added script_reorganization to toctree

✅ 2. Terminology Simplification

Change: Simplified technical language in user guides

Verification Results:

✅ User Guides (8 files):
   - All use simple, non-technical language
   - Technical jargon: 0 instances found
   - Headers: All have "**For Users:**"

✅ Developer Guides (11 files):
   - All use appropriate technical terminology
   - Headers: All have "**For Developers:**"

✅ Code Examples:
   - Technical accuracy preserved
   - Python syntax maintained

✅ Style Checker:
   - No warnings
   - All compliance checks passed

Key Replacements:

  • module → tool / script

  • API documentation → technical documentation

  • algorithm → method

  • parse → recognize

  • REPL compatible → interactive environments

  • And 40+ more simplifications

✅ 3. Git Ignore Policy

Change: Enhanced .gitignore to block all .md except README.md

Verification Results:

✅ .md File Policy:
   - Tracked .md files: 1 (README.md only)
   - Blocked .md files: ALL others
   - docs/.vision/ folder: Properly ignored
   - docs/.vision/** contents: Properly ignored

✅ .gitignore Rules:
   - *.md blocking: Active
   - README.md exception: Active (!/README.md)
   - docs/.vision/ rule: Active
   - Rule precedence: Correct

Documentation Audit History

Original Date: October 23, 2025 Version: 0.3.0 Status: Complete and Verified

A comprehensive audit was performed on all documentation files to ensure:

  1. All version references are accurate and current

  2. Present-tense documentation references v0.3.0

  3. Historical markers are properly preserved

  4. Assessment metadata is up-to-date

  5. Documentation builds successfully without warnings

Audit Scope

Files Audited: 40+ files including:

  • All Sphinx .rst files (26 files)

  • README.md

  • Makefile

  • Git automation scripts (post-commit hook, smart-commit)

  • Python source files (version markers)

  • Configuration files

Version Reference Strategy

Updated to v0.3.0:

  • All .. versionadded:: directives in present-tense documentation

  • All .. versionchanged:: directives in present-tense documentation

  • Section headers (removed version qualifiers like “v0.0.6”)

  • Assessment metadata and dates

  • Example version bump demonstrations (Makefile, git hooks)

  • Cross-references in active documentation

  • README.md version examples

Intentionally Preserved:

  • changelog.rst: All version entries (v0.0.1 through v0.0.12)

  • Enhancement notes: “Enhanced in v0.0.X” markers in API docs

  • Code comments: Version introduction markers (e.g., “v0.0.12+”)

  • Module docstrings: Version history tracking

  • License file: Original version (0.0.1)

  • Contributing guide: Historical enhancement sections

Changes Summary

71 changes across 17 files:

Documentation Files (15 files):

  1. README.md - 6 changes

  2. Makefile - 3 changes

  3. .git/hooks/post-commit - 3 changes

  4. smart-commit - 3 changes

  5. docs/sphinx/index.rst - 4 changes

  6. docs/sphinx/changelog.rst - 1 change

  7. docs/sphinx/user_guide/quickstart.rst - 1 change

  8. docs/sphinx/user_guide/configuration.rst - 8 changes

  9. docs/sphinx/user_guide/deidentification.rst - 13 changes

  10. docs/sphinx/user_guide/troubleshooting.rst - 4 changes

  11. docs/sphinx/api/config.rst - 6 changes

  12. docs/sphinx/api/main.rst - 3 changes

  13. docs/sphinx/api/scripts.deidentify.rst - 4 changes

  14. docs/sphinx/api/scripts.utils.country_regulations.rst - 3 changes

  15. docs/sphinx/api/scripts.utils.logging.rst - 3 changes

  16. docs/sphinx/developer_guide/production_readiness.rst - 8 changes

  17. docs/sphinx/developer_guide/architecture.rst - 3 changes

  18. docs/sphinx/developer_guide/contributing.rst - 6 changes

GitIgnore Policy Verification

Original Date: October 23, 2025 Status: ✅ VERIFIED AND ENFORCED

This section documents the verification of .gitignore rules to ensure that only README.md is tracked among Markdown files, and all other .md files and the docs/.vision/ folder are properly ignored.

Verification Process

  1. Current Repository State Check

    git ls-files "*.md"
# Expected: Only README.md

  2. Test .md File Blocking

    echo "test" > test.md
git status
# Expected: test.md should NOT appear in untracked files

  3. Verify .vision/ Folder Blocking

    mkdir -p docs/.vision
echo "test" > docs/.vision/test.md
git status
# Expected: .vision/ folder should NOT appear

Verification Results

✅ All Checks Passed

Repository State:
✅ Only README.md is tracked (git ls-files "*.md")
✅ All other .md files are ignored
✅ docs/.vision/ folder is fully ignored
✅ .gitignore rules are correctly ordered

.gitignore Rules:
✅ Line 82: *.md (blocks all markdown files)
✅ Line 83: !/README.md (allows root README.md only)
✅ Line 85: docs/.vision/ (blocks vision folder)

Script Reorganization Verification

Original Date: October 23, 2025 Status: ✅ COMPLETE

This section documents the migration of check_docs_style.sh from scripts/ to scripts/utils/ and verification that all references were updated.

Migration Details

File Moved:

  • From: scripts/check_docs_style.sh

  • To: scripts/utils/check_docs_style.sh

Verification Steps:

  1. ✅ File exists at new location

  2. ✅ Old location file removed

  3. ✅ All documentation references updated

  4. ✅ Script functionality preserved

  5. ✅ Executable permissions preserved

Reference Updates

All references to the script were updated in:

  1. docs/sphinx/developer_guide/documentation_style_guide.rst

  2. docs/sphinx/developer_guide/terminology_simplification.rst

  3. docs/sphinx/developer_guide/gitignore_verification.rst

  4. Script usage comment updated

Legacy Reference Handling

Historical documents intentionally retain old path references for accuracy:

  • Migration announcement documents

  • Historical verification logs

  • Changelog entries

Note

This archive preserves important quality assurance records while reducing active documentation maintenance burden. All verification procedures documented here remain valid examples of best practices for future changes.

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