brochure: ARCHIVED 2026-05-19 — was a misinterpretation, do not re-enable

The brochure split project was a misinterpretation of an operator request
to make TtsReader + AI Station production-ready. Somewhere in the planning
chain it spun up into a separate "showcase brochure product" with its own
host, repo, NuGet, and Codex pack — none of which the operator actually
wanted. The project itself is pointless and a waste of credits.

Archive (not delete) per operator decision 2026-05-19, because some work
shipped under the misinterpretation may still have reusable value:

- FlowerCore.Intranet.Web PR #8 (merged) introduced FlowerCore.Brochure.Content
  content-NuGet carve-out — pattern may apply to TtsReader/AiStation production
  polish.
- Sprint 32 Cl-5 substrate has design ideas for public-twin vs operator-host
  separation that may transfer.
- magpie-doc-writer / wren-walkthrough skills still author useful Intranet
  content — those skills stay active.

These manifests stay at replicas: 0 for ArgoCD continuity. Cleanup options
(move out of apps/* glob, or delete entirely) are documented in README.md
for an operator-explicit future call.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

apps/brochure/README.md

@@ -1,27 +1,33 @@
-# FlowerCore Brochure
+# FlowerCore Brochure — ARCHIVED 2026-05-19
 
-`apps/brochure` hosts the public brochure split from `FlowerCore.Intranet.Web`.
-ArgoCD's `apps/*` ApplicationSet will create `infra-brochure` after this
-directory lands on `main`.
+**Status:** ARCHIVED. Do not re-enable, do not rebuild the image.
 
-## Runtime
+## What this was
 
-- Host: `https://brochure.flowercore.io`
-- Namespace: `brochure`
-- Deployment: `brochure-web`
-- Image: `localhost/fc-brochure-web:v20260524-sprint32`
-- Port: `8080`
-- Public route method allowlist: `GET` and `HEAD`
+A proposed public-facing brochure subdomain (`brochure.flowercore.io`) that would carve `/whats-new`, `/walkthroughs`, and `/galleries` content out of `FlowerCore.Intranet.Web` and serve it anonymously through a new thin Blazor host backed by a `FlowerCore.Brochure.Content` NuGet.
 
-## Operator Actions
+## Why it was archived
 
-1. Publish and import `localhost/fc-brochure-web:v20260524-sprint32` to every
-   RKE2 node before sync, using the same podman save + `ctr images import`
-   flow as the Intranet deployment.
-2. Create the Cloudflare DNS record for `brochure.flowercore.io` pointing at
-   the FlowerCore public edge.
-3. Verify `infra-brochure` appears in ArgoCD, the certificate becomes Ready,
-   and `GET https://brochure.flowercore.io/` returns `200`.
+The operator asked for **TtsReader and AI Station to become production-ready**. Somewhere along the way that request was misinterpreted by the planning chain into "spin up a new showcase brochure product". The brochure project itself is pointless and a waste of credits. The two actual productionization arcs (TtsReader + AI Station) get the focus instead.
 
-The route intentionally does not expose `/ops/*` or `/admin/*`; the Brochure
-web app returns `404` for those paths and Traefik only forwards read methods.
+## Archive (don't delete) rationale
+
+Some of the work shipped under this misinterpretation may still have value if pulled back into the actual productionization work:
+
+- `FlowerCore.Intranet.Web` PR #8 (merged Sprint 32) introduced the `FlowerCore.Brochure.Content` content-split carve-out. That code may be reusable as a content-NuGet pattern for TtsReader/AiStation production polish.
+- The Sprint 32 Cl-5 substrate (`docs/standards/sprint-32-intranet-brochure-split-substrate-2026-05-24.md`) contains design ideas for public-twin vs. operator-host separation that could apply elsewhere.
+- The magpie-doc-writer / wren-walkthrough skills that authored `flowercore-whats-new`, `flowercore-walkthroughs`, `flowercore-galleries` content still produce useful Intranet content — those skills are NOT archived.
+
+The Sprint 34 Cl-4 brochure rebuild Codex pack is at `docs/archived/codex-2026-05-18-fc-brochure-web-rebuild-pack.md` in `FlowerCore.Notes`.
+
+## Cluster state
+
+These manifests stay at `replicas: 0`. ArgoCD keeps the `brochure` namespace + service + cert + IngressRoute objects alive for continuity, but nothing serves real traffic. The `localhost/fc-brochure-web:v20260524-sprint32` image still exists on RKE2 nodes — that image is the wrong codebase (an `FlowerCore.Intranet.Web` binary mis-tagged as brochure during Sprint 33 Cx-5) and can be safely `ctr images rm`'d in a future cleanup.
+
+## Cleanup choices for a future sprint
+
+1. **Leave as-is** (current state). Negligible cluster footprint. Operator can re-evaluate later.
+2. **Move directory** to `apps-archived/brochure/` (outside the `apps/*` ApplicationSet glob). ArgoCD prunes the `infra-brochure` Application + the `brochure` namespace. Manifests preserved in git history.
+3. **Delete entirely.** Removes from git too. Use only after confirming no reusable patterns are still pending extraction.
+
+All three are valid. Operator-explicit at the time of cleanup.

apps/brochure/brochure.yaml

@@ -1,8 +1,23 @@
-# FlowerCore Brochure public host
+# FlowerCore Brochure public host — ARCHIVED 2026-05-19
 #
-# Thin Blazor host for public What's New, walkthrough, and gallery content
-# carved out of FlowerCore.Intranet.Web. The ApplicationSet creates
-# infra-brochure from this directory after merge.
+# This project was a MISINTERPRETATION of an operator productionization
+# request (TtsReader + AiStation production-ready) that spun up into a
+# whole new showcase product. Operator decision 2026-05-19: archive,
+# don't delete — the Sprint 32 Cl-5 substrate + the FlowerCore.Intranet.Web
+# PR #8 carve-out may have reusable content/admin-panel work that could
+# be pulled back into the actual productionization work later.
+#
+# Do NOT re-enable. Do NOT try to rebuild the brochure-web image.
+# Do NOT dispatch the Sprint 34 Cl-4 rebuild pack (now at
+# docs/archived/codex-2026-05-18-fc-brochure-web-rebuild-pack.md).
+#
+# These manifests stay in-place at replicas: 0 for ArgoCD continuity.
+# Cleanup options for a future sprint: (a) move this whole directory
+# to apps-archived/brochure/ so the ApplicationSet stops tracking it
+# and ArgoCD prunes the namespace, OR (b) delete the directory entirely.
+# Both are valid; operator-explicit at the time of cleanup.
+#
+# Memory: project_brochure_split_misinterpretation_archived_2026_05_19
 ---
 apiVersion: v1
 kind: Namespace
@@ -21,7 +36,7 @@ metadata:
     app.kubernetes.io/name: brochure-web
     app.kubernetes.io/part-of: flowercore
 spec:
-  replicas: 0  # Scaled to 0 by SRE 2026-05-19; pod was running wrong codebase (Intranet.Web binary in brochure image); Sprint 34 Cx-3 to rebuild from FlowerCore.Brochure.Web source per docs/ai-agents/codex-prompts/2026-05-18-fc-brochure-web-rebuild-pack.md
+  replicas: 0  # ARCHIVED 2026-05-19 — brochure project was a misinterpretation; do not re-enable. See file header for context.
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