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shoney.arickathil 1fe808b7a4 docs(stories): add readiness, retire status: refine, sweep all 47 iterations 
- `readiness: ready | refine` is a SECOND axis, orthogonal to status.
  `ready` = the brainstorm is complete and the decisions are LOCKED (a spec
  approved, or the forks explicitly confirmed). `refine` = open forks remain
  and it cannot be planned yet
- `status: refine` RETIRED because it carried both meanings at once, so a held
  iteration with an approved spec (language 18, 26) was indistinguishable from
  one nobody had thought about. status is now purely where the WORK is:
  done | in-progress | pending | hold — `pending` was already the board's own
  rendering word, so nothing new was invented
- all 47 iterations classified from EVIDENCE in their own text, not by guess:
  "the four forks are SETTLED" / "spec + plan approved" / "Approved spec:" for
  ready; "Forks the spec must settle" / "no spec exists yet" for refine. Every
  shipped iteration is ready by definition. 19 done, 5 in-progress, 15
  pending, 8 hold; 27 ready, 20 refine
- two iterations moved refine -> in-progress rather than -> pending: language
  31 and 34 are absorbed into 24 and work on them is literally happening, which
  the board already showed as 🔄 while their frontmatter said otherwise. That
  disagreement is now gone
- board legend, board-views' frontmatter contract, and two new Dataview
  queries updated — the useful one being `readiness: ready AND status:
  pending`, the startable set

WHAT THE NEW AXIS IMMEDIATELY SURFACED: of 15 pending iterations, exactly ONE
is startable — databasev2 4, io_uring group-commit, whose forks were confirmed
settled 2026-08-20. Everything else pending needs a brainstorm first. That was
invisible while one key carried both meanings, and it is now on the board.

Also caught by the sweep, unrelated to readiness but found by cross-checking
frontmatter against the board: SIX duplicate rows. Every iteration moved into
databasev2 was still listed in the LANGUAGE pending table under its retired id
(23, 32, 33, 20, 21, 27) as well as its new one. Stale copies removed. And two
databasev2 rows made claims the sweep contradicts — iteration 1 was billed
"startable today" while its forks are open, and 6 still called itself the
ceiling-raiser after 2 took that role.

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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-27 16:54:45 +02:00

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4 done ready

Iteration 4 — single binary end-to-end

Format: product/story-iteration-template. Part of Story — one language, one runtime, one database, one binary.

Goals

  • The two halves meet: woc emits .wob images the VM's loader accepts, a conformance corpus pins language behavior from both sides, and woc build produces the story's headline artifact — one self-contained executable.
  • This is the milestone where "a new language with arithmetic and garbage collection" is demonstrably real: source in, running binary out.

Acceptance Criteria

  • What to achieve?
    • Given the pricing demo's logic subset,
    • when woc compiles it on a developer laptop,
    • then compilation finishes in under 100 ms and wovm runs the resulting module with correct output.
  • What to achieve?
    • Given the three-kind conformance corpus (runs with expected stdout; must-fail-compile with expected WO-E###; must-trap with expected trap code),
    • when the harness runs the full suite,
    • then every fixture lands in its expected bucket and ASan/Valgrind report zero errors across the suite.
  • What to achieve?
    • Given woc build on a sample project,
    • when the produced binary is copied to a machine with no OCaml, no compiler, nothing but Linux,
    • then it runs with no arguments and behaves identically.

Out Of Scope

  • Anything beyond the milestone grammar (iteration 5 grows the surface).
  • Hot reload / deployment mechanics (iteration 11 — but the self-exec trailer this iteration ships is its foundation).

Info

  • The loader's validation battery is the executable spec: every image emit produces must round-trip through it — the golden rule both test suites enforce.
  • The corpus becomes the spine every later iteration extends (lang, sys, db, actor fixture kinds already scaffolded under tests/corpus/).

Proposed Solution

  • Execute the existing plan: compiler/plan/2026-08-01-wob-emit-e2e-single-binary.md (emitter with ownership lowering + drop maps + vtables, corpus harness, pricing corpus, ownership/trap corpora, gc pump e2e, woc build trailer, just oop-accept gate over the five spec success criteria).