When a workspace fills up with items nobody is working on any more, the fix looks like a new status. It usually isn't. Archiving is a decision about what someone wants to see, and modelling it as a lifecycle status quietly corrupts the meaning of the status field for everything that reads it.

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A test suite going green tells you one thing: the assertions you wrote passed. It does not tell you that the property you actually care about holds. Those two things usually overlap. On a recent piece of infrastructure work — a system meant to coordinate independent actors under a set of hard invari...