snapshot: preserve reliability hardening and Workdock identity pass

README.md

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-# TUBCO Onboarding & Offboarding Portal
+# Workdock
 
-This is the standalone dockerized web application for the TUBCO onboarding and offboarding workflow.
+Workdock is the dockerized business operations platform that powers internal company apps such as onboarding, offboarding, requests, integrations, backups, and future modular workplace tools.
 
 ## Services
 - `web`: Django app (`http://localhost:8000`)
@@ -99,3 +99,20 @@ Verification behavior:
 - restores the dump into a temporary verification database
 - extracts media into a temporary directory
 - checks that the restored DB and media structure are readable
+
+## Release validation
+Use one local gate before shipping larger changes:
+
+- `make release-validate`
+
+What it runs:
+- Django system checks
+- full workflow test suite
+- translation compile
+- collectstatic
+- latest-backup verification
+- production-like onboarding/offboarding smoke check
+
+CI mirrors this split in two layers:
+- fast Python validation
+- Docker-based release gate with backup verification and smoke workflow checks