The morning started with a retest. The read-only override from the last slice passed on the owner’s real form with one word, “Works”, which closed the request that had started it. The owner then asked what slices remained. The honest answer was none planned, so the manager listed candidates, and the owner chose three.
What was chosen, and what was not
- The parked review fixes. Refusing changes a certified document does not allow, a password prompt for protected files, and editing text inside a graphic that several pages share.
- Annotations. A Comment tab: highlights, notes, ink, text boxes.
- Recognize text. Scanned pages get a searchable text layer, with a Find bar to use it.
Left for later: a Mac or Linux build, and certificate signing. The owner chose the things that make the app work on real-world files over the things that make it run elsewhere.
Five working copies
Both of the project’s standing peer sessions were down when the work was dispatched, so five one-off builders took it instead, each in its own working copy on its own branch, and each followed by a one-off reviewer briefed to break the work rather than read it. The certified-document rules merged first, then the shared-graphic fix, then text recognition after a second review round, then the Comment tab after its own. An American English sweep followed them onto main. A release build and installer were produced from the result and handed to the owner for retest.
The fifth branch, the password prompt, was finished and approved but sat on the builder’s machine: the sandbox had refused its push, and the manager does not route around a refusal. That one waited for the owner.