MR-2 — Friction surfaced in phase N's verification round becomes phase N+1's input
This is the rule that cost the source project the most clarity to discover. It is mechanical now.
When a phase-close verification round surfaces an item:
- closed is allowed only for trivial follow-ups (typo, broken link, single-line bug).
- in-budget must be justified — a sentence explaining why this is acceptable carry.
- deferred must be assigned a milestone ID in phase N+1 (
M(N+1).x.y) in the same commit as the phase-close decision doc.
You do not extend the closing phase to absorb the friction. That’s the failure mode.
The nested numbering scheme (M7.2.1, M7.2.2) exists specifically so
that carry-overs from phase N look like first-class members of phase N+1
without losing their lineage.
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