The backlog is the work-intake home — latent work intent captured as
issue, improvement, chore, risk, or idea items, triaged and
promoted into slices.
needs = hard dependency. after = soft ordering (suggestion).
The CLI is the source of truth for exact flags: doctrine backlog --help
Creating new backlog items:
- Determine kind membership / validity
- Survey backlog for potential duplicates / neighbors
- Prefer expanding / improving an appropriate existing item
- Choose a clear, concise title
- Create the new backlog item
- Read & fill its template
- Tag it appropriately and consistently
- Record any dependencies and appropriate sequencing priorities
Verbs
See doctrine backlog --help for the full verb list and flags.
Kind membership
See lib:reference/using-doctrine.md § Which home for which record for the
backlog kinds and the work-intake membership test.
Status lifecycle
See doctrine backlog edit --help for the status/resolution values and their
coupling.
Tags
See doctrine backlog tag --help for the tag syntax and the --remove flag.
Dependencies
See doctrine backlog needs --help and doctrine backlog after --help for the
hard/soft dependency semantics.
Rules
- See
doctrine backlog --help— the id prefix auto-selects the kind. - See
lib:reference/using-doctrine.md§ Which home for which record — a risk is admitted only as unresolved work-risk. - Don't hand-edit backlog TOML (
lib:reference/using-doctrine.md§ storage tiers) — use the verb; prose (*.md) is hand-edited. - See
doctrine backlog list --help— terminal items are hidden by default;--allor an explicit--statusreveals them.