Populace is moving to a single national H5 with state and congressional-district region scoping in policyengine.py rather than one-file-per-state and one-file-per-district artifacts. Once the new Populace release is certified into policyengine.py, this repo should stop presenting states/*.h5 and districts/*.h5 as the live path.
Tracking context:
Cleanup checklist:
- Mark state/district H5 production as legacy or archived after Populace certification.
- Stop publishing new split regional H5 files unless explicitly needed for historical reproducibility.
- Keep enough manifests/docs for old releases to remain reproducible.
- Redirect docs and examples to the certified
policyengine.py Populace bundle and region/scoping APIs.
- Remove or quarantine release-promotion tests that assume
states/ and districts/ are active release outputs.
Populace is moving to a single national H5 with state and congressional-district region scoping in
policyengine.pyrather than one-file-per-state and one-file-per-district artifacts. Once the new Populace release is certified intopolicyengine.py, this repo should stop presentingstates/*.h5anddistricts/*.h5as the live path.Tracking context:
Cleanup checklist:
policyengine.pyPopulace bundle and region/scoping APIs.states/anddistricts/are active release outputs.