📋 Milestone Review: Sprint 19: Polish & Documentation — release or blog?

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Milestone Review: Sprint 19: Polish & Documentation

Ralph, Sprint 19: Polish & Documentation has been closed with 31 issues completed.
Current latest release: v1.5.2

Closed Issues (31 total)

• [Sprint 19] Preserve main ancestry in dev to unblock release PR #352 #357 [Sprint 19] Preserve main ancestry in dev to unblock release PR [RELEASE] Sprint 19 — Polish, Markdown Editor & Categories #352 (@mpaulosky)
• [Sprint 19] Merge main into dev to unblock release PR #352 #355 [Sprint 19] Merge main into dev to unblock release PR [RELEASE] Sprint 19 — Polish, Markdown Editor & Categories #352 (@mpaulosky)
• [Sprint 19] Resolve release PR #352 conflicts into dev #353 [Sprint 19] Resolve release PR [RELEASE] Sprint 19 — Polish, Markdown Editor & Categories #352 conflicts into dev (@mpaulosky)
• [Sprint 19] Repair Aspire startup on new machine #350 [Sprint 19] Repair Aspire startup on new machine (@mpaulosky)
• [Sprint 19] Resolve remaining database runtime issues #348 [Sprint 19] Resolve remaining database runtime issues (@mpaulosky)
• [Sprint 19] Fix AppHost MongoDB container crash under Aspire #345 [Sprint 19] Fix AppHost MongoDB container crash under Aspire (@mpaulosky)
• [Sprint 19] Polish category UX, test naming, and documentation #341 [Sprint 19] Polish category UX, test naming, and documentation (@mpaulosky)
• [Sprint 19] Build Categories CRUD and blog post category assignment #339 [Sprint 19] Build Categories CRUD and blog post category assignment (@mpaulosky)
• [Sprint 19] Test/interop/lifecycle vertical validation slice #327 [Sprint 19] Test/interop/lifecycle vertical validation slice (@mpaulosky)
• [Sprint 19] Shared UX parity + editor presentation hardening #326 [Sprint 19] Shared UX parity + editor presentation hardening (@mpaulosky)
• [Sprint 19] Edit flow markdown authoring slice #325 [Sprint 19] Edit flow markdown authoring slice (@mpaulosky)
• [Sprint 19] Create flow markdown authoring slice #324 [Sprint 19] Create flow markdown authoring slice (@mpaulosky)
• [Sprint 19] Restore markdown editor compile path end-to-end #323 [Sprint 19] Restore markdown editor compile path end-to-end (@mpaulosky)
• [Sprint 19] Milestone/worktree execution rails for markdown migration #322 [Sprint 19] Milestone/worktree execution rails for markdown migration (@mpaulosky)
• [Sprint 19] Scope lock + markdown editor baseline path #321 [Sprint 19] Scope lock + markdown editor baseline path (@mpaulosky)
• [Sprint 19] [Feature] PRD: Markdown editor for Blog Post Create/Edit content #320 [Sprint 19] [Feature] PRD: Markdown editor for Blog Post Create/Edit content (@mpaulosky)
• Feature Rich text editor component #314 Feature Rich text editor component (@mpaulosky)
• [Sprint 19] feat(app): restrict blog post editing to post author or Admin #300 [Sprint 19] feat(app): restrict blog post editing to post author or Admin (@mpaulosky)
• [Sprint 19] fix(process): align worktree pre-push gate with required tests #299 [Sprint 19] fix(process): align worktree pre-push gate with required tests (@mpaulosky)
• [Sprint 19] feat(app): auto-fill Author when creating a new blog post #296 [Sprint 19] feat(app): auto-fill Author when creating a new blog post (@mpaulosky)
• Add-Caching-to-MemberRoles #294 Add-Caching-to-MemberRoles (@mpaulosky)
• [Sprint 19] feat(app): add caching to MemberRoles page #293 [Sprint 19] feat(app): add caching to MemberRoles page (@mpaulosky)
• [Sprint 19] feat(ui): Style button variants (.btn-primary, .btn-secondary, .btn-warning, .btn-destructive) #292 [Sprint 19] feat(ui): Style button variants (.btn-primary, .btn-secondary, .btn-warning, .btn-destructive) (@mpaulosky)
• [Sprint 19] fix(theme): fine-tune input.css CSS after PR #277 merge #291 [Sprint 19] fix(theme): fine-tune input.css CSS after PR feat(theme): centralise table, form, and alert CSS into input.css — #276 #277 merge (@mpaulosky)
• [Sprint 19] add dotnet format gate before the pre-push build #289 [Sprint 19] add dotnet format gate before the pre-push build (@mpaulosky)
• [Sprint 19] Add GitHub Actions workflows for markdown and YAML linting #287 [Sprint 19] Add GitHub Actions workflows for markdown and YAML linting (@mpaulosky)
• [Sprint 19] stabilize SeedMyBlogData concurrent invocation in AppHost.Tests #286 [Sprint 19] stabilize SeedMyBlogData concurrent invocation in AppHost.Tests (@mpaulosky)
• [Sprint 19] normalize copyright header updates to preserve original year #284 [Sprint 19] normalize copyright header updates to preserve original year (@mpaulosky)
• [Sprint 19] clean up remaining repo-wide Release build analyzer warnings #280 [Sprint 19] clean up remaining repo-wide Release build analyzer warnings (@mpaulosky)
• [Sprint 19] fix profile email fallback for alternate legitimate claim forms #278 [Sprint 19] fix profile email fallback for alternate legitimate claim forms (@mpaulosky)
• theme: restore @theme inline bridge and centralise element colour assignments #276 theme: restore @theme inline bridge and centralise element colour assignments (@mpaulosky)

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🔍 Release Candidate Checklist

Review these criteria to decide between a full release or a blog-only post:

Criteria	Check
Contains user-facing features or enhancements?	(9 enhancement-labeled issues)
Contains breaking changes or schema migrations?	Review issues above
Significant enough to warrant a version bump?	Your call
All CI gates green on main?	Check GitHub Actions
Blog post needed either way?	Yes — always

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✅ Your Decision

Option A — Release Candidate (tag + GitHub Release + release blog post):

Add the label release-candidate to this issue.
Then choose the version bump type in the comment below (major / minor / patch).

Option B — Blog Only (milestone summary blog post, no release):

Add the label blog-only to this issue.

Either choice will automatically:

• Trigger Bilbo to write the blog post
• Update docs/blog/index.md (the blog page)
• Sync README.md via the blog-readme-sync workflow

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Triggered by milestone close at 2026-05-24. Workflow: milestone-blog.yml

[mpaulosky]

Release Decision: Minor Version Bump (v1.5.2 → v1.6.0)

Rationale:

Sprint 19 delivered substantial user-facing features (Markdown editor, Categories CRUD) and platform improvements (.NET 10 upgrade, Aspire/MongoDB updates). The scope justifies a minor version bump:

• ✅ User-facing enhancements: markdown content editor, category management
• ✅ Platform upgrades: .NET 9 → 10, Aspire, MongoDB dependencies
• ✅ Significant bug fixes and UX polish
• ✅ All CI gates green on main after PR [RELEASE] Sprint 19 — Polish, Markdown Editor & Categories #352 merge

Version Bump Type: (v1.5.2 → v1.6.0)

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✅ Release flow triggered.

• Version bump: minor
• squad-milestone-release.yml dispatched — this will create the tag, push it, and publish a GitHub Release.
• release-blog.yml will fire automatically on release publish and create a squad:bilbo blog brief.
• Once Bilbo's PR merges, blog-readme-sync.yml will update README.md (the Page).

Closing this review issue.