docs(governance): state the boundary — keel enforces rulings, it does not issue them - #297
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… not issue them Contributors from different madhāhib will disagree about rulings, and an ungoverned disagreement fragments a religious-context project (#280). The architecture already keeps the ruling in the attestation, not the code; this states it where it is read: the README's first screen and CONTRIBUTING.md, pinned verbatim in both by tests/test_governance.py so they cannot drift.
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Closes #280
Once contributors arrive from different madhāhib and jurisdictions they will disagree about
rulings, and in a religious context ungoverned disagreement fragments the project. The
architecture already answers the question — a classification is a human input
(
keel assets attest --source --attested-by),screen_assetenforces it,attestation=Noneis a rejection — so this PR makes the answer explicit, before any other Phase 6–8 document is
written against the wrong assumption.
What
##, where a stranger decides what this is):the quotable sentence — keel is not a fatwa engine. It is an enforcement engine for a
ruling you supply. — plus the two-operators-two-schools consequence.
CONTRIBUTING.md: the same sentence verbatim, framed as PR scope:it applies one contributor's fiqh to every operator who upgrades;
keel assets attestwrites your ruling to yourdatabase — and is not merged upstream, so the project never becomes a fiqh court with a
merge button.
tests/test_governance.py(written first, red, then green): boundary sentence on theREADME first screen; same sentence verbatim in CONTRIBUTING (drift-proof); both PR kinds
told apart with their bars; the local-not-upstream route named.
Acceptance from #280
CONTRIBUTING.md, framed as PR scopeordinary engineering
Gates:
pytest2778 passed / 1 skipped,ruff checkclean,mypyclean.