This reviewer-facing page defines SMART-D details for the Democracy requirement group: Operations and Administration Requirements.
Phase Boundary: Requirements review only. Metrics scoring, report-card use, legislative mapping, issue grades, member grades, rollups, leaderboards, and action tools are disabled for this reviewer-facing page.
Red text = bad current value, bad trend, missing critical data, or unfavorable gap. Green text = favorable value or improving trend. Amber text = context-dependent, incomplete, or source-method review needed. Neutral/gray text = descriptive value that is not inherently good or bad.
| Requirement | Metric / Measurement | Top Countries / Sources | Value to the American People | Gap / Target / Timeframe |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DEM-OPS-001: Operations and Administration Requirements Requirement: The public Democracy folders shall contain only necessary public files, data files, and support files. Drafts, reviews, scripts, and work products shall be stored under support or ETL folders. Verification: Architecture audit. Review Status: Draft / source-method review required |
Current Metric: Candidate issue-operations, backup, audit-readiness, and maintainability indicator set; source-method review required. Current Value: Not yet approved for scoring. Current Trend: Not yet approved for scoring. Automation Feasibility: To be assessed during metrics development. Trend Meaning: No trend should be interpreted until the source, formula, baseline period, and limitations are approved. |
Source-Method Review: Required Source families and approved datasets must be selected during source-method review before public scoring. Comparator Caution: Democracy comparators are useful for context but should not be treated as one-to-one targets without method review. |
Keeps the Democracy issue maintainable, auditable, backed up, and separated between public and support files. | Gap: No approved public baseline yet. Target: Approved requirement text, approved metric candidate, source registry entry, formula, limitations, update frequency, and review decision before scoring. Timeframe: Complete during requirements and metrics review before public report-card promotion. |
| DEM-OPS-002: Operations and Administration Requirements Requirement: The Democracy issue shall include an _issue_support folder for source definitions, review files, metric catalogs, audit outputs, and draft materials not intended for direct public navigation. Verification: Folder inventory review. Review Status: Draft / source-method review required |
Current Metric: Candidate issue-operations, backup, audit-readiness, and maintainability indicator set; source-method review required. Current Value: Not yet approved for scoring. Current Trend: Not yet approved for scoring. Automation Feasibility: To be assessed during metrics development. Trend Meaning: No trend should be interpreted until the source, formula, baseline period, and limitations are approved. |
Source-Method Review: Required Source families and approved datasets must be selected during source-method review before public scoring. Comparator Caution: Democracy comparators are useful for context but should not be treated as one-to-one targets without method review. |
Keeps the Democracy issue maintainable, auditable, backed up, and separated between public and support files. | Gap: No approved public baseline yet. Target: Approved requirement text, approved metric candidate, source registry entry, formula, limitations, update frequency, and review decision before scoring. Timeframe: Complete during requirements and metrics review before public report-card promotion. |
| DEM-OPS-003: Operations and Administration Requirements Requirement: The system shall support a Democracy architecture audit that inventories folders, files, ZIPs, dependencies, admin gaps, public files, App_Data, includes, scripts, and unusual files. Verification: Audit script output review. Review Status: Draft / source-method review required |
Current Metric: Candidate issue-operations, backup, audit-readiness, and maintainability indicator set; source-method review required. Current Value: Not yet approved for scoring. Current Trend: Not yet approved for scoring. Automation Feasibility: To be assessed during metrics development. Trend Meaning: No trend should be interpreted until the source, formula, baseline period, and limitations are approved. |
Source-Method Review: Required Source families and approved datasets must be selected during source-method review before public scoring. Comparator Caution: Democracy comparators are useful for context but should not be treated as one-to-one targets without method review. |
Keeps the Democracy issue maintainable, auditable, backed up, and separated between public and support files. | Gap: No approved public baseline yet. Target: Approved requirement text, approved metric candidate, source registry entry, formula, limitations, update frequency, and review decision before scoring. Timeframe: Complete during requirements and metrics review before public report-card promotion. |
| DEM-OPS-004: Operations and Administration Requirements Requirement: Before significant Democracy folder reorganization or file replacement, the operator shall create or verify a dated backup root using the established backup pattern. Verification: Backup folder existence check. Review Status: Draft / source-method review required |
Current Metric: Candidate issue-operations, backup, audit-readiness, and maintainability indicator set; source-method review required. Current Value: Not yet approved for scoring. Current Trend: Not yet approved for scoring. Automation Feasibility: To be assessed during metrics development. Trend Meaning: No trend should be interpreted until the source, formula, baseline period, and limitations are approved. |
Source-Method Review: Required Source families and approved datasets must be selected during source-method review before public scoring. Comparator Caution: Democracy comparators are useful for context but should not be treated as one-to-one targets without method review. |
Keeps the Democracy issue maintainable, auditable, backed up, and separated between public and support files. | Gap: No approved public baseline yet. Target: Approved requirement text, approved metric candidate, source registry entry, formula, limitations, update frequency, and review decision before scoring. Timeframe: Complete during requirements and metrics review before public report-card promotion. |
| DEM-OPS-005: Operations and Administration Requirements Requirement: ZIP files shall be inventoried before movement, deletion, or archival. Verification: ZIP inventory report. Review Status: Draft / source-method review required |
Current Metric: Candidate issue-operations, backup, audit-readiness, and maintainability indicator set; source-method review required. Current Value: Not yet approved for scoring. Current Trend: Not yet approved for scoring. Automation Feasibility: To be assessed during metrics development. Trend Meaning: No trend should be interpreted until the source, formula, baseline period, and limitations are approved. |
Source-Method Review: Required Source families and approved datasets must be selected during source-method review before public scoring. Comparator Caution: Democracy comparators are useful for context but should not be treated as one-to-one targets without method review. |
Keeps the Democracy issue maintainable, auditable, backed up, and separated between public and support files. | Gap: No approved public baseline yet. Target: Approved requirement text, approved metric candidate, source registry entry, formula, limitations, update frequency, and review decision before scoring. Timeframe: Complete during requirements and metrics review before public report-card promotion. |
| DEM-OPS-006: Operations and Administration Requirements Requirement: Data ingestion, scoring, audit, source processing, and report generation shall be handled by Python scripts where practical. Verification: Script inventory, ETL test. Review Status: Draft / source-method review required |
Current Metric: Candidate issue-operations, backup, audit-readiness, and maintainability indicator set; source-method review required. Current Value: Not yet approved for scoring. Current Trend: Not yet approved for scoring. Automation Feasibility: To be assessed during metrics development. Trend Meaning: No trend should be interpreted until the source, formula, baseline period, and limitations are approved. |
Source-Method Review: Required Source families and approved datasets must be selected during source-method review before public scoring. Comparator Caution: Democracy comparators are useful for context but should not be treated as one-to-one targets without method review. |
Keeps the Democracy issue maintainable, auditable, backed up, and separated between public and support files. | Gap: No approved public baseline yet. Target: Approved requirement text, approved metric candidate, source registry entry, formula, limitations, update frequency, and review decision before scoring. Timeframe: Complete during requirements and metrics review before public report-card promotion. |
| DEM-OPS-007: Operations and Administration Requirements Requirement: ASPX/JScript pages shall focus on display, controls, simple public rendering, and admin trigger interfaces rather than complex data transformation. Verification: Code review. Review Status: Draft / source-method review required |
Current Metric: Candidate issue-operations, backup, audit-readiness, and maintainability indicator set; source-method review required. Current Value: Not yet approved for scoring. Current Trend: Not yet approved for scoring. Automation Feasibility: To be assessed during metrics development. Trend Meaning: No trend should be interpreted until the source, formula, baseline period, and limitations are approved. |
Source-Method Review: Required Source families and approved datasets must be selected during source-method review before public scoring. Comparator Caution: Democracy comparators are useful for context but should not be treated as one-to-one targets without method review. |
Keeps the Democracy issue maintainable, auditable, backed up, and separated between public and support files. | Gap: No approved public baseline yet. Target: Approved requirement text, approved metric candidate, source registry entry, formula, limitations, update frequency, and review decision before scoring. Timeframe: Complete during requirements and metrics review before public report-card promotion. |
| DEM-OPS-008: Operations and Administration Requirements Requirement: Python-generated Democracy outputs intended for public display shall be written as JSON files consumable by ASPX/JScript pages. Verification: JSON schema validation, page load test. Review Status: Draft / source-method review required |
Current Metric: Candidate issue-operations, backup, audit-readiness, and maintainability indicator set; source-method review required. Current Value: Not yet approved for scoring. Current Trend: Not yet approved for scoring. Automation Feasibility: To be assessed during metrics development. Trend Meaning: No trend should be interpreted until the source, formula, baseline period, and limitations are approved. |
Source-Method Review: Required Source families and approved datasets must be selected during source-method review before public scoring. Comparator Caution: Democracy comparators are useful for context but should not be treated as one-to-one targets without method review. |
Keeps the Democracy issue maintainable, auditable, backed up, and separated between public and support files. | Gap: No approved public baseline yet. Target: Approved requirement text, approved metric candidate, source registry entry, formula, limitations, update frequency, and review decision before scoring. Timeframe: Complete during requirements and metrics review before public report-card promotion. |
| DEM-OPS-009: Operations and Administration Requirements Requirement: CSV files shall be used where practical for human-editable source review, manual overrides, promotion decisions, and metric review checklists. Verification: CSV audit, import test. Review Status: Draft / source-method review required |
Current Metric: Candidate issue-operations, backup, audit-readiness, and maintainability indicator set; source-method review required. Current Value: Not yet approved for scoring. Current Trend: Not yet approved for scoring. Automation Feasibility: To be assessed during metrics development. Trend Meaning: No trend should be interpreted until the source, formula, baseline period, and limitations are approved. |
Source-Method Review: Required Source families and approved datasets must be selected during source-method review before public scoring. Comparator Caution: Democracy comparators are useful for context but should not be treated as one-to-one targets without method review. |
Keeps the Democracy issue maintainable, auditable, backed up, and separated between public and support files. | Gap: No approved public baseline yet. Target: Approved requirement text, approved metric candidate, source registry entry, formula, limitations, update frequency, and review decision before scoring. Timeframe: Complete during requirements and metrics review before public report-card promotion. |