Limitations
Status legend
Every documentation page carries one of five status labels, so a reader can tell current behaviour from deprecated, planned or unverified claims.
Every page in this documentation carries a status label and the engine version it was verified against. The label is part of the claim, not decoration.
| Label | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Current | Describes the behaviour of the production code as it stands, verified against that code on the date shown. Where a capability has additionally been exercised against a live AWS account, the page says so. Current does not by itself assert live execution; a capability that has not been exercised live is marked Unverified |
| Deprecated | Still present and still functioning, but must not be relied on. The page names the replacement |
| Planned | Not built. Nothing on the page describes behaviour that exists today |
| Experimental | Exists, and may change without notice |
| Unverified | Stated but not measured. The page names what would verify it |
Why Unverified exists
It would be easy to leave out anything not measured. It would also be misleading, because the gap is often the thing a careful reader most wants to know about.
A page marked Unverified is making a statement GovIntel believes to be true and has not demonstrated. It names what evidence would settle it. That is a more useful document than one which is silent.
Verified against
Each page footer states the engine version and the date the page's claims were last checked against the code. A page whose footer is older than a methodology change is stale, and that is visible rather than hidden.