One repository for the commons, too

Three days after the product's two repositories became one, the rules followed. On 2026-08-29 the governance repository was merged into pumasi with its full history — a real merge, not a squash import, because the charter's drafting record is the thing the commons is accountable to — and the old repository was archived (commit a843df1).

The evidence, not the taste#

Both repositories were documentation-only. The commit that merged them counts what the boundary was costing: sixteen absolute cross-repository URLs existed only to span the gap — pumasi pointing into governance eleven times, governance pointing back five. Every one is now a relative link, which cannot 404 and which a reviewer can verify locally. Absolute links are how this project has been bitten repeatedly: a steward edit once arrived carrying a file:///home/m/dev/... link that would have been broken for every reader but its author, and L-008 found nine broken cross-repository links in one day.

The split's cost was paid the same day it was closed. Retiring a single governance instrument needed a change in one repository and a table row in the other's README — one decision, two repositories, two reviews, and sequencing risk between them.

L-008 had named the shape that morning: a boundary is not a repository. Nobody had forked the governance model standalone, just as nobody had taken the scheduling engine alone. Keeping a repository open for a consumer who is imagined rather than met is L-001, paid for a third time.

The same day's diet#

The merge landed alongside a simplify (commit 5a49afc) that took the commons repository from 7,781 lines to 3,358 and rewrote catalog.json in the same pass — fixing what had gone stale while the lines were being counted. And charter.yaml was deleted outright (commit 8a2a58a): nothing read it, and it had drifted from the charter's prose twice in one day. A configuration file nothing reads is a copy of the prose wearing a schema, and L-007 says what copies do.

Where things live now#

One repository, pumasi: the charter at governance/CHARTER.md, the debt register at governance/DEBT.md, the lessons at lessons/, release notes at releases/, and catalog.json at the top. The archived repository's links still resolve, but to a frozen copy. This site's own links were moved in the same change as this post — which is the whole argument for the merge, applied to us: every pointer into the old repository was one more restatement waiting to fork.