govoplan-approvals is the GovOPlaN platform module seed for generic approval and sign-off chains with delegation, substitution, four-eyes principle, escalation, and signatures.

This repository is initialized as a discoverable module seed. It exposes a module manifest, initial permissions, role templates, documentation metadata, Gitea workflow templates, and a focused manifest test. It intentionally does not yet add HTTP routes, database models, migrations, or WebUI navigation.

Initial Ownership

approval requests
sign-off chains
delegation and substitution facts
four-eyes constraints
escalation state
signature references

Boundaries

This module does not own:

module-specific business decisions
workflow orchestration engine
identity and RBAC primitives

Detailed boundary notes are in docs/APPROVALS_DOMAIN_BOUNDARY.md.

Integrations

Expected optional integrations:

workflow
audit
files
notifications

Development Install

From the core checkout:

cd /mnt/DATA/git/govoplan-core
./.venv/bin/python -m pip install -e ../govoplan-approvals

Focused manifest verification:

cd /mnt/DATA/git/govoplan-approvals
PYTHONPATH=src:/mnt/DATA/git/govoplan-core/src /mnt/DATA/git/govoplan-core/.venv/bin/python -m unittest discover -s tests

Gitea Workflow

Issue templates are installed under .gitea/, and the shared label taxonomy is copied to docs/gitea-labels.json with the module label module/approvals.

From the core checkout, labels can be synced once a local GITEA_TOKEN is available:

cd /mnt/DATA/git/govoplan-core
/mnt/DATA/git/govoplan/tools/gitea/gitea-sync-labels.py --root /mnt/DATA/git/govoplan-approvals --apply