Record the operator's correction decisions; put the FAO half to them formally

[Polichinel]

Follow-up to #206 (S8). The operator answered the two questions S8 surfaced — one fully, one partially.

Decided

Who notifies: Simon Polichinel von der Maase, direct email, as soon as the scope of the error is established. Not an automated alert — a correction needs judgement about scope and impact that a machine message cannot carry.

Treatment of a bad delivery: withdrawal is the intended policy.

The gap that now has to be visible

Intended: withdrawal. Implemented: supersession.

Supersession is in force because it is what the wire does, not because it was chosen — and it is the option we are not recommending. Withdrawal has no mechanism: an ADR-013 amendment plus matching views-faoapi work.

The procedure states this in the section an operator reads at 22:00. Believing a bad delivery becomes unretrievable when it does not is worse than knowing it stays.

Put to FAO formally

Pre-Release Note 07, Topic B — two decision points in the series' house style, plus a table of interim defaults marked as placeholders rather than policy:

• B.1 — are Anna Belli and Flavio Bellomi the right recipients, is there an expected notification period, and is notification expected for every correction or only material ones? A named individual on leave is a single point of failure in exactly the situation where delay is costly.
• B.2 — withdrawal or supersession, and specifically whether FAO has an audit or reproducibility requirement that depends on a previously served forecast staying retrievable. That answer decides whether the amendment is worth building.

Compiles clean, 8 pages.

One thing I changed on my own judgement — flagging it

This repository is public. I put the contacts in the pre-release note (which goes to the FAO, where naming them is appropriate) and not in the repo.

Naming a responsible person on our side is one thing. Publishing an external organisation's individual email addresses to a public GitHub repo as a side effect of documenting a runbook is another, and not something to do by default. The repo doc names Simon and points at the project materials.

tests/test_doc_accuracy.py now refuses @fao.org anywhere in the repo. Mutation-proven:

partner contact addresses appear in this public repository:
  ['docs/operations/correction_procedure.md:184']

If you want the addresses in the repo, say so and I will remove that guard — it is your call, not mine.

The guard fired on this change, as designed

S8's test asserted the document said "not decided", with a docstring instructing whoever removed that marker to replace it with the decision. That is exactly what happened. Its replacement guards the subtler failure: a half-answered question quietly becoming a whole answer, so the outstanding half stops being asked.

Verification

ruff check .                                # clean
pytest -q                                   # 307 passed, 3 skipped, 41 xfailed, 5 known pyarrow
pytest -q tests/test_doc_accuracy.py        # 15 passed
grep -rn "@fao.org" .                       # 0

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