schema: 1
story: "8.1"
story_title: "Email Infrastructure Setup"
gate: PASS
status_reason: "All acceptance criteria met. Clean implementation of email infrastructure with proper branding, queueing, and test coverage."
reviewer: "Quinn (Test Architect)"
updated: "2025-12-29T00:00:00Z"

waiver: { active: false }

top_issues: []

quality_score: 95
expires: "2026-01-12T00:00:00Z"

evidence:
  tests_reviewed: 8
  risks_identified: 0
  trace:
    ac_covered: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12]
    ac_gaps: []

nfr_validation:
  security:
    status: PASS
    notes: "Credentials externalized to env vars, uses config() helper"
  performance:
    status: PASS
    notes: "Emails queued via database driver, non-blocking"
  reliability:
    status: PASS
    notes: "Queue retry mechanism configured (90s retry_after)"
  maintainability:
    status: PASS
    notes: "Clean abstract base class, centralized branding"

risk_summary:
  totals: { critical: 0, high: 0, medium: 0, low: 0 }
  recommendations:
    must_fix: []
    monitor:
      - "Add actual logo-email.png asset when available"

recommendations:
  immediate: []
  future:
    - action: "Add logo-email.png asset file"
      refs: ["public/images/logo-email.png"]