Quality drift
Detect the quality debt that accumulates after successful merges.
An individual reviewed change cannot reveal whether repeated changes are moving the chosen default-branch baseline in the wrong direction.
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The debt hidden behind green merges
You see successful pull requests or merge requests all week, but you cannot answer whether the merged code is accumulating maintainability, quality, or security debt faster than the team is removing it.
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Why green merges hide a moving baseline
Quality Harness can review an individual work result before approved delivery. Even a well-reviewed change cannot establish the direction of an entire codebase. Drift needs repeated, comparable observations for the same project and a chosen default-branch baseline.
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Measure the baseline repeatedly
The private Quality Platform direction is to retain each project’s history, compare observations over time, and give a quality leader an overview across Project A, Project B and other projects. This is a planned product proposition, not a repository-backed claim of deployed scheduling or a live dashboard. Quality Harness remains the individual review role.
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Turn a trend into an owner action
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Observation
Record a comparable measure, project, revision and time.
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Trend
Compare repeated observations within that project against an agreed default-branch baseline.
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Investigation
Inspect findings to decide which owner should act; an illustrative score does not identify root cause by itself.
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The private platform behind the review
Access to the separate Quality Platform is discussed privately. A Quality Harness verdict or applied outcome does not itself create a long-term trend or establish a production integration.
Request a drift review
Bring one merged-code concern. We will discuss the baseline and review cadence that make it visible.