| document_id | phase-000-baseline |
|---|---|
| title | Documentation and Feature Baseline |
| document_type | phase |
| audience | users-operators-and-maintainers |
| status | active |
| version | 1.3.0-rc.1 |
| last_reviewed | 2026-07-24 |
| phase_id | PHASE-000 |
Freeze the CI-qualified and clean-clone-qualified MailStack 1.3.0-rc.1 behavior as the protected
starting point for future phases, and establish a mandatory user-documentation lifecycle.
This phase adds the root documents/ information architecture, complete initial user and
administrator guides, a baseline record, a documentation policy, a deterministic index and
manifest generator, a phase-record generator, documentation contract tests, and CI enforcement.
It does not change application runtime behavior, database migrations, mail flow, authorization,
deployment service names, or legacy compatibility identifiers.
Users and administrators receive a maintained user manual, task-based how-to guide, and administrator guide describing the current supported interface and safety boundaries. The application itself is unchanged.
Read documents/USER_MANUAL.md for product behavior, documents/HOW_TO_USE.md for task workflows,
and documents/ADMIN_GUIDE.md for user, mailbox, and operational administration. Contributors use
scripts/manage_documents.py new-phase before implementing the next maintained phase, then run
sync and check after editing the affected guides.
All existing MailStack 1.3.0-rc.1 features and deployment contracts remain preserved. The
baseline remains receive-only and single-node. The new enforcement applies to future repository
changes and does not rename VIBMAIL_*, vibmail-*, /etc/vibmail, database identifiers,
vibmail.my, or legacy protocol headers.
The documentation framework is verified through deterministic synchronization, metadata and section validation, draft blocking, change-policy classification tests, general link checking, forensic inventory validation, full repository audit, CI, deterministic source build, and release verification.
Added documents/README.md, USER_MANUAL.md, HOW_TO_USE.md, ADMIN_GUIDE.md, BASELINE.md,
DOCUMENTATION_POLICY.md, DOCUMENTATION_MANIFEST.json, and this phase record. Updated root
contribution, roadmap, release, structure, test, forensic, README, changelog, and pull-request
documentation to make the workflow mandatory.