One hundred and forty-three comments across the research dashboard, the research
map, Big Picture and the two composites attributed a decision to a person: by
name, by quotation, by date, or as "per Driver". Shipped code should carry the
reason a thing is the way it is, not who said so. A reader of the giveaway repo
has no way to ask that person anything, and the name tells them nothing the
reason does not.
So a quotation becomes the requirement it was quoting, a ruling becomes the
ruling, "the Driver reported" becomes what was reported, and a decision still
waiting on an answer now reads as provisional and pending a product decision
rather than as somebody's pending word. Where a comment already stated the
reason -- most of them did -- only the attribution went.
Two things were removed rather than rewritten. A personal medical fact appeared
twice ("the Driver is photosensitive"), once in a comment and once in a gate's
console output where it printed on every run; the motion-safety requirement
stands on its own and now reads that readers may be photosensitive. Internal card
ids that named nobody stayed, since they point at this repo's own history.
The bulk went in three batched passes of meaning-preserving substitutions, and
that is where the risk was: a blind replacement produces sentences that are
grammatically wrong but still look plausible in a diff. Re-reading every changed
line found thirteen -- "the the report describes", "including the two that were
had just complained about", "because was asked for WHITE rings" -- each repaired
individually. The count of remaining references caught the tail three separate
times, when a file type, an escaped apostrophe, and a scripts/ path each fell
outside a filter I had assumed was total.
Comment bodies and two console strings only. All twenty-one files parse, both
meta.json files are still valid JSON, and no declaration moved.
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