# Tagging a release while a review gate was in flight

_2026-09-21 · booth_

**Tagging a release while a review gate was still in flight.**
`v0.2.0` was cut and announced to 15 consuming handles; the
`/heid-contract-review` panel — dispatched BEFORE implementation, as the
discipline says — replied afterwards with three defects in the code that had just
shipped, one of them silent data loss. Nothing about the tier decision was wrong;
the *timing* was. **If a gate is outstanding on the work being released, the tag
waits for it.** The cost was a same-hour `v0.2.1` and a correction note to peers
who had already verified against the broken version.