I think people used to publish "postmortems" for projects that were literally over, either because they failed or because they were published long ago. At some

I think people used to publish "postmortems" for projects that were literally over, either because they failed or because they were published long ago. At some point people started using it for outages, then security issues too. I agree that the term is inadequate, I can just see how we got here.