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The publication date of this repository is set, and the repository is public

Context

HW-DR-0031 rules that this repository becomes public on 2026-09-08. The owner set the date that the record once left unset.

The posture and schedule are settled. HW-DR-0011 ratified Apache-2.0, which settles the terms of redistribution. HW-DR-0016 settles what a public presence is.

Three measurements said what a reader outside this repository could reach on 2026-08-27. gh api repos/headwater-ai/headwater --jq .visibility reported private. gh api repos/headwater-ai/headwater/releases --jq 'length' reported 0. gh api repos/headwater-ai/headwater/tags --jq 'length' reported 0. So there was no clone, no tag and no release artifact that an outside party could obtain. The same visibility command reports public on 2026-09-06.

The last paragraph of HW-DR-0031 named this record. This record held the date under the ruling value HW-DR-0030 defines.

Obligation

The corpus owed the public release, and the owner performed it. No document, engine verb, measurement or adopter could derive the date. The owner set it.

The debt was a ruling and not a build. HW-DR-0030 states what the value means. The owner performed that act on 2026-08-27.

What the absence costs the obligations shelf. 22 open records on this shelf state waiting_on: adopter, counted on this tree. An adopter is an organization that runs this engine over a corpus it keeps, and a reader outside this repository is the precondition of one. A private repository admits no such reader, so those 22 records waited behind an act that no work of this repository performs. The act is done, and each of the 22 now waits on an adopter alone.

This record did not state or propose a date. The owner supplied 2026-09-08 and opened the repository on 2026-09-06, which is two days earlier.

Discharge

This record is discharged, because the repository is public. The owner opened it at 22:33 on 2026-09-06, and gh api repos/headwater-ai/headwater --jq .visibility reports public. Publication work remains under the distribution milestone.

What did not discharge this. The owner's date ruling did not make the repository public. An agent, a run, a milestone or an issue could not set the date.

What this record does not carry. The license, the trademark posture and the commercial tier, which HW-DR-0031 leaves where they stood and which HW-OBL-0094 records. The channel by which an adopter obtains a build, which is the machinery that the open issues of the distribution milestone already carry. What a first adopter is asked to do once they hold the engine, which the tutorial holds.