Two complementary improvements aimed at reducing recurring maintenance
overhead:
1. **Test-count centralisation** — `doc/api/tests.md` is now the
single source of truth for the test counts. All other docs
(README, CLAUDE.md, doc/contributing.md, doc/getting-started.md,
doc/math/validation.md, doc/math/validation-protocol.md,
scripts/try_it.sh) use qualitative phrasing + a link instead of
hardcoded numbers. The previous regime had eight places with
"227 CGAL tests, 23 non-CGAL tests" that drifted apart across
releases (the v0.9.0 release-prep needed to touch nine files).
2. **Versioning policy** — `doc/release-policy.md` (new, ~250 lines)
formalises:
* SemVer rules for the pre-1.0 and post-1.0 phases.
* Phase-milestone → MINOR-bump mapping (v0.10.0 → Phase 9c, …).
* Single-source-of-truth table for moving numbers (test counts,
version, date).
* Step-by-step release process (the recipe that worked for v0.9.0
after the false-start with PR #11/#12).
* Hotfix policy + post-1.0 deprecation policy.
* Known failure modes and how to recover from them.
Plus a small CI gate:
3. **scripts/check-test-counts.sh** — verifies the totals in
doc/api/tests.md match `ctest` output. Re-uses existing build-cgal/
if present. Exit 0 on match, 1 on divergence with recovery hints.
Cheap enough (~30 s) to run on every PR.
Other cleanups
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* code/tests/cgal/CMakeLists.txt — stale "Test 7 (genus-2 homology)
as GTEST_SKIP stub until Phase 8" comment removed; that test landed
as HomologyGenerators.Genus2_FourCutEdges in Phase 7.
* CLAUDE.md — "test-fast also runs stubs" Known Quirks entry updated
to reflect the v0.9.0 stub cleanup (no GTEST_SKIPs remain).
* CLAUDE.md doc map — new entry for doc/release-policy.md.
Stubs audit
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Zero GTEST_SKIP() calls remain in the codebase as of this commit.
The only references to stubs are in historical documentation
(CHANGELOG.md v0.7.0 entry, doc/roadmap/* "deferred to research-track"
notes) — those are intended.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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