ME.2:10 - Rationale

A repertoire becomes reusable when its users can distinguish statuses and trace provenance. Source lineage can explain where an edition, account, or variant came from, but it cannot answer whether a Method exists, whether two Methods form a family or whole, whether one caused an outcome, or whether the latest variant is preferable. Those questions have different subjects and governors.

The repertoire distinguishes Methods, performed Work, descriptions, variants, capability and tools, including cases where several representations concern the same Method. These distinctions keep a source document’s organization from determining the kind of thing each passage describes. Method Engineering literature supplies search and reuse practices; FPF supplies the status and relation boundaries needed to use their contributions across projects.