Rewrite the README as highlights with screenshots; move the detail into docs/
The README was 1,240 lines of reference material and still described a SQLite quick start. It is now a short tour (highlights, screenshots of the web UI, an accurate quick start against Postgres), and each topic has its own page under docs/ with an index: deployment, configuration, Alertmanager, incidents, notifications, escalation, dead man's switches, single sign-on, web UI, API and development. SERVICE-ACCOUNTS.md is rewritten from a proposal into a reference, and TEAM-LOOKUP.md is gone with the endpoint it described. The "Upgrading to ..." sections for an unreleased product are dropped. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016mBLURvJoMuUEr9cB2RpUN
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# Escalation
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_Escalation ladders: who is paged next when nobody acknowledges._ Back to the [README](../README.md) and the [documentation index](./README.md).
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Without a ladder, an unacknowledged incident re-pages the same topic every
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`notify_repeat` forever. That is a louder version of the same silence: if the
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person on call is asleep, out of signal, or has left, nothing else happens.
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A team can configure an ordered ladder instead. Each level has a timeout and a
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set of targets, and a target is either a named person or **whoever the team's
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rota says is on call today** — the target that keeps working when the rota
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changes and nobody remembers to edit the policy.
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```
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level 1 5m oncall the rota gets first refusal
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level 2 5m user:bob then a named second
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then repeat_count more rounds
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then the team's fallback topic, once
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```
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When a level's timeout passes with the incident still `triggered`, the next
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level is paged. Off the end of the ladder the whole thing runs again
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`repeat_count` times, and after that the team's `fallback_topic` is paged once
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as the end of the line. The incident stays open throughout: running out of
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people to wake is not the same as somebody answering.
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**Acknowledging or resolving stops it**, which is the point — continuing to wake
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people after somebody has said "I have this" is how a tool teaches people to
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mute it. **Snoozing pauses it**: a deliberate "not now" holds the ladder where
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it is, and it resumes when the snooze runs out.
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Every step is on the incident's timeline with the level and the names it woke,
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so somebody reading it afterwards can tell why their phone rang at 04:00. A
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level whose targets are all unreachable — no ntfy topic, a disabled account, an
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empty rota — is recorded as `nobody reachable` and the ladder moves on rather
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than stalling on a rung that cannot ring.
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**Reminders and escalation never both run.** A team with a ladder gets
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escalation; a team without keeps the reminder behaviour exactly as it was. Two
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pages for one silence is the surest way to get a tool muted.
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The ladder's `fallback_topic` is per team, unlike `TERDUT_NTFY_FALLBACK_TOPIC`,
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which is the install-wide topic used when an incident opens with nobody on call.
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They answer different questions: one is "nobody was scheduled", the other is
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"everybody scheduled has been tried".
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