ansible-workspace-dnd/docs/roadmap/remediation.md

Feature 0002 Remediation Review

Status: resolved

The Audita production task flow implements the approved architecture and the complete integration suite passes. The following residual issues should be corrected before Feature 0002 is accepted.

Finding 1: Correct the Declared Role License

Severity: medium

ansible-role-audita/meta/main.yml declares BSD-3-Clause, but the repository's LICENSE file is CC0 1.0 Universal. Published role metadata must identify the license actually granted by the repository.

Required Remediation

• Change galaxy_info.license to the Galaxy-compatible SPDX identifier CC0-1.0.
• Do not replace or otherwise alter the existing license text.

Validation

• meta/main.yml and LICENSE identify the same license.
• Production-profile ansible-lint passes.

Finding 2: Describe All Integration-Test Host Effects

Severity: low

ansible-role-audita/README.md says that the integration suite mutates only the three Audita paths and its private temporary directory. Default convergence also enables dependency management, so on a fresh supported host the suite may install Git through APT, refresh the APT cache, and install the Go Snap. The statement is therefore incomplete.

Required Remediation

• State that the suite may install or converge Git and the Go Snap in addition to managing the listed Audita paths.
• Retain the statement that temporary test-specific files are confined to the private temporary directory.

Validation

• The README accurately describes package/Snap effects and managed filesystem paths.
• The description agrees with tests/integration and the role defaults.

Finding 3: Complete Binary-Type Verification

Severity: low

tests/verify.yml checks binary ownership, mode, and executability, but does not assert that /usr/local/bin/audita is a regular file. Stage 1 explicitly requires baseline verification of binary type and metadata. The production file task establishes this invariant, but the focused verification does not provide the planned evidence for it.

Required Remediation

• Add an assertion for audita_binary_metadata.stat.isreg to the existing binary metadata check.
• Do not add another probe or production task.

Validation

• tests/verify.yml confirms regular-file type, ownership, mode, and executability from its existing stat result.
• The integration suite passes.

Finding 4: Synchronize Implementation Progress Tracking

Severity: low

Both implementation stages are annotated complete in docs/roadmap/implementation.md, at role commits 47f1852 and d37f590, but the plan remains ready, its progress notes still say execution is ready to begin, and docs/status.md still describes execution as the current activity. The recorded state should show that implementation is complete and remediation review is in progress.

The two workspace commits that added stage-completion annotations also diverge from the plan's instruction that the out-of-band executor leave workspace planning files unchanged. No implementation code was placed in the wrong repository, so this requires tracking cleanup rather than code movement.

Required Remediation

• Set the plan to in_progress while findings remain open and replace its stale progress note with both completed stage commits and the current remediation state.
• Update workspace status so Feature 0002 is in_progress, with implementation complete and remediation pending, and make review/remediation the current focus.
• Do not mark Feature 0002 done until remediation is implemented and reviewed.

Validation

• The plan's status, stage annotations, and progress notes describe one consistent state.
• Workspace status agrees with the implementation and remediation records.
• git diff --check passes in the workspace repository.

Review Validation Evidence

The review ran the complete ansible-role-audita/tests/integration suite on Ubuntu 26.04 with Ansible Core 2.21.3 and ansible-lint 26.8.0. It passed syntax checking, production-profile lint, baseline and repeated convergence, missing-binary rebuilding, dependency opt-out with a caller-supplied Go executable, metadata repair without rebuilding, configuration-only convergence, alternate-checkout rebuilding, default restoration, native configuration validation, and all three platform-rejection cases.

The final state was default commit a84941d68168a1ed9ea7423b6477ae8218be73f9, a root:root mode 0755 binary, a root:root mode 0644 configuration, and native validation output config is valid. bash -n tests/integration and git diff --check also passed. All nested repository working trees remained clean.

Resolution

All four findings were implemented and validated on 2026-09-08. The role now declares CC0-1.0, its README identifies dependency-management effects, and its existing binary stat result proves regular-file type. Workspace tracking records the completed and accepted feature. Role remediation was committed as 3a8c21f.

Validation passed with the complete tests/integration suite, production-profile ansible-lint, bash -n tests/integration, and git diff --check in both changed repositories. The production task flow was not changed.