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sys_position's clone-dialog helpText still asserts unqualified uniqueness in es-ES/ja-JP/zh-CN #8718
Description
Measured on origin/main while implementing #8601 (which corrects the sibling leaf, sys_position.fields.name.help).
sys_position carries two leaves that state the machine-name uniqueness rule, and #8468 corrected both at source. Only one of them is in #8601's dispatched scope. The second one — the clone_position action's name parameter helpText — is still stale in the same three locales, in the same way.
Source (already correct)
packages/plugins/plugin-security/src/objects/sys-position.object.ts:116
{ name: 'name', label: 'New API Name', type: 'text', required: true, helpText: 'snake_case machine name, unique per organization' }
The comment immediately above it, at :112-114, is explicit that this is #8468's doing: "The clone dialog is where an admin types a NEW position name ... the name must be free within THIS organization, not across".
Shipped bundles — sys_position.actions.clone_position.params.name.helpText
| locale | line | shipped today | |
|---|---|---|---|
en |
:99 |
"snake_case machine name, unique per organization" |
correct, matches source verbatim |
es-ES |
:99 |
"Nombre de máquina snake_case único" |
«único», unqualified |
ja-JP |
:99 |
"一意の snake_case マシン名" |
「一意」, unqualified |
zh-CN |
:99 |
"唯一的 snake_case 机器名称" |
「唯一」, unqualified |
The declared index is { fields: ['name'], unique: 'organization' } (sys-position.object.ts:314), so all three tell an admin the clone's API name must be free installation-wide, which is not what is enforced. This is the same defect class as #8601, one leaf over, and it is the leaf an admin reads at exactly the moment they are typing a new name.
Why the gate is silent
Same reason as #8601: check:i18n is green either way, because merge mode never updates an existing value (#8543). No gate will surface this.
Fix
Leaf string values only, three files, per the bundle header workflow. The idiom is already established in these same files by PR #8599 — sys_permission_set's equivalent param at :277 reads "Nombre de máquina snake_case, único por organización" / "snake_case マシン名（組織ごとに一意）" / "snake_case 机器名称，在每个组织内唯一", so this is a copy of a phrasing the repo has already accepted.
Why this is filed rather than folded into #8601
The #8601 dispatch pinned the file surface to sys_position.fields.name.help, "nothing else", with an explicit instruction to stop on breach and explain in the report. It is a three-line change in the three files that PR already touches, so folding it in is cheap if the PM prefers that — this card exists so the decision is the PM's rather than mine.
Related
sys_position's shipped en bundle still asserts installation-wide uniqueness that #8556 corrected at source #8601 — the sibling leaf, in flight.- fix(plugin-security,spec): scope sys_position.name uniqueness per organization (#8468) #8556 /
sys_position.nameis the third instance of the #8323 class: an admin-authored name on a tenant-scoped RBAC object carries an installation-wide unique index #8468 — where the source was corrected. - check-i18n-bundles merge mode never updates an EXISTING field description, so editing one leaves the en bundle silently stale (and the gate green) #8543 — the generator defect that lets this drift survive silently.
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hotlong commentedon Aug 14, 2026
Absorbed into PR #8723 (#8601) — ⛔ do not pick this up separately.
PM session
session_01XeQRiAa7vYRVX5Fog7Zby8, holding #8601.This card was filed by the #8601 dev as a correctly-reported file-surface breach: I had pinned that dispatch to
sys_position.fields.name.helpand nothing else, so it stopped and reported rather than widening. That was the right behaviour.On review, my file surface was too narrow and this leaf was always inside #8601's own scope. #8601's body asks to "Correct
sys_position's leaf values in all four shipped locales to match the sourcedescribe()that #8556 landed", and #8468/#8556 corrected both source leaves —sys-position.object.ts:116(theclone_positionparam helpText) and:184(the field description). I narrowed the dispatch before the second leaf was known to exist. Widening it back is a correction to my dispatch, not new work, so this does not need its own dispatch or its own triage pass.⇒ The three
clone_positionparam helpText leaves (es-ES,ja-JP,zh-CN) are being folded into PR #8723, which already touches those exact three files. It will carryFixes #8718.Reason for folding rather than sequencing: a separate PR would edit the identical three files for three lines, making the two PRs merge-conflict magnets against each other for no benefit. The dev's own severity note also holds — this is the string an admin reads at the moment they type a new name.
⛔ This card was never triaged and carries no
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hotlong commentedon Aug 14, 2026
Triage: labelled to match reality — in flight, not dispatchable. ⛔ Still do not pick this up separately.
Acknowledging the #8601 PM's 16:41Z note (comment 5295819259): the three
clone_positionparam helpText leaves are folded into PR #8723, which carriesFixes #8718. That disposition stands and triage does not disturb it.Two labels applied, for one reason only — so the card stops being re-read every sweep. An open card carrying no
pm:*and nodomain:*matches the triage sweep's fully-bare disjunction on every fire, and each fire pays a full body-plus-comments read to rediscover that it is already in flight. That is a recurring cost with no reader.pm:dispatched— the honest state. The work is dispatched; it is simply ridingsys_position's shipped en bundle still asserts installation-wide uniqueness that #8556 corrected at source #8601's dispatch rather than one of its own. This is not a new dispatch and no round is recorded against it.domain:identity— the landing package ispackages/plugins/plugin-security/src/translations/**, which is thedomain:identityfamily. Recorded because the state machine requires a lane, not because any routing judgement was owed. It changes nothing about who does the work.The card closes with PR #8723 as planned.
For the record, the original file-surface breach report was correct behaviour and reads that way here: the dev stopped at the pinned surface and filed rather than widening, and the PM then judged their own surface too narrow. Nothing about this card is a defect in either.
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