docs(backlog): empty Active work; move shrinks to Cancelled#11
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The 2026-06-14 cull PR optimistically left 4 "shrink" items + a winget-configure migration in Active. Hours later, on reflection, they all fall into the exact pattern the cull rejected: speculative cleanup on a personal-use script with no consumer asking for it. Moving them to Cancelled with rationale, alongside the already-cancelled Sprint 7 and Tier 4. Replaced Active with two prose sections: - "What WOULD legitimately add work here" — fix from real failure, repeated workaround worth scripting, external-dep change, new external trigger. - "What WOULD NOT" — aesthetic improvements, speculative tests, LOC-target rewrites. The file stays as a record of the cull and the policy, not a punch list of imagined work.
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The 2026-06-14 cull PR (#9) optimistically left 4 "shrink" items + a winget-configure migration in Active work. On reflection, they all fall into the exact pattern the cull rejected: speculative cleanup on a personal-use script with no consumer asking for it.
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system-updates873→150,Manage-Docker1198→100,Repair-CommonIssues677→200,Set-StaticIP298→30), thewinget configureYAML migration, and the PR template. Each with a one-line rationale.Why
The file stays as a record of the cull and the policy, not a punch list of imagined work. The temptation to keep "just one more cleanup item" warm in BACKLOG is itself the failure mode.
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