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 The startup product will help a small student team practice disciplined DevOps work by tracking product ideas, operations tasks, reviews, and deployment evidence in a self-hosted Gitea environment.
 
 Target users are SSW 590 team members who need a shared place to plan, review, and preserve technical work. The first milestone is to keep the repository, issues, and pull request history available after container replacement.
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+## Initial Feature Backlog
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+1. Issue tracking workflow: maintain product and operations issues with clear acceptance criteria.
+2. Pull request review workflow: require changes to be proposed on branches and reviewed before merge.
+3. Operations evidence workflow: record restart, persistence, DNS, HTTPS, and firewall verification evidence in the IT manual.