pal-e-docs

Review: spike: audit infra/pipeline gaps and document target architecture

review-1345-2026-06-06 Review

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Verdict: READY

Template Completeness

  • [x] Type -- "Spike"
  • [x] Lineage -- "Standalone -- discovered while comparing paldocs pipeline against landscaping-assistant."
  • [x] Repo -- ldraney/paldocs
  • [x] Question -- clearly framed: what are the gaps and what does the target architecture look like?
  • [x] What to Explore -- detailed list of 7 investigation areas with specific file paths and repos
  • [x] Success Criteria -- 5 concrete checkboxes covering doc creation, gap analysis, README link, implementation ticket, PR merge
  • [x] Time-box -- "1 session"
  • [x] Related -- links to paldocs project and issue #13
All sections required by template-issue-spike are present and complete.

Traceability

  • [x] story:infra label -- present on board item
  • [ ] story note MISSING -- No user story entries exist on project-paldocs yet. The user-stories section reads "No user-story notes created yet." However, this is foundational infrastructure work -- acceptable for a spike. [SCOPE] Create "infra" user story entry on project-paldocs user-stories section.
  • [x] arch:ci-cd label -- present on board item
  • [ ] arch note MISSING -- No arch-ci-cd note found in pal-e-docs. [SCOPE] Create architecture note arch-ci-cd for CI/CD component. However, this spike's deliverable is precisely to document this architecture -- the note's absence is expected and will be addressed by the spike output.
  • [x] Forgejo issue -- ldraney/paldocs#14, state: open

File Targets

Spike type -- no file targets required. The "What to Explore" section references files for investigation, not modification. Verified key files exist:
  • [x] .woodpecker.yaml -- verified: exists, contains test + build-and-push + update-kustomize-tag steps
  • [x] bin/docker-entrypoint -- verified: exists, currently skips db:prepare (as noted in issue)
  • [x] Confirmed: no docker-compose.yml exists (gap correctly identified in issue)
  • [x] docs/ directory exists with data-model.md and user-stories.md -- infrastructure.md does not yet exist (expected, it's the deliverable)
  • [x] README.md exists -- currently has no link to infrastructure docs (expected, link is a deliverable)

Repo Placement

OK. Issue is filed on ldraney/paldocs and the primary investigation + deliverable (docs PR) belongs in this repo. Cross-repo references (pal-e-deployments, pal-e-services, pal-e-platform, landscaping-assistant) are investigation targets only -- no changes needed in those repos for this spike.

Dependencies

  • ldraney/paldocs#13 (feat: add Postgres trigger to bump projects.updated_at) -- open. Issue body notes #13 "depends on entrypoint fix from this work." This spike may produce an implementation ticket that #13 depends on, but the spike itself is not blocked.
  • No other board items on board-paldocs block this spike. All other items are in backlog or done.

Acceptance Criteria

5 success criteria, all verifiable by an agent:
  • [x] docs/infrastructure.md created with mermaid diagram -- verifiable via file existence + content check
  • [x] Gap analysis table included -- verifiable via content check
  • [x] README.md links to new doc -- verifiable via grep
  • [x] Implementation ticket created -- verifiable via Forgejo API
  • [x] PR merged -- verifiable via Forgejo API
All criteria are concrete and machine-verifiable. No missing criteria detected.

Blast Radius

Low. This is a documentation spike. The direct output is a docs PR and a follow-up implementation ticket. No code changes to production systems. The implementation ticket (created as a deliverable) will have its own blast radius assessed at review time.
The "known gaps" listed in the issue (no docker-compose, no rubocop, no test suite, archlinux:latest build image, external Harbor URL, skipped db:migrate) are confirmed by codebase inspection. The Gemfile has no rspec/minitest/rubocop gems. The entrypoint skips migrations. The pipeline uses archlinux:latest as the test image.

Decomposition Assessment

No decomposition needed. This is a spike with documentation-only output. No file targets to count. 5 success criteria (at the threshold but appropriate for a spike that produces a single docs PR). Estimated agent work well under 5 minutes -- the investigation is straightforward comparison work with a known deliverable format.

Recommendation

  • [SCOPE] Create "infra" user story entry on project-paldocs user-stories section. Acceptable to defer -- foundational infrastructure work.
  • [SCOPE] Create architecture note arch-ci-cd for CI/CD component. Expected to be addressed by the spike output itself -- the spike's purpose is to document this architecture.
Neither scope item blocks execution. The spike is well-formed, properly time-boxed, and has clear deliverables. Both missing notes are expected to be natural outputs of the spike work itself.
No action needed to advance this ticket.