What does over-compliant caycStatus mean?

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I am using the web api to query projects. I am getting back caycStatus of “over-compliant” in the response. I cannot find documentation on this. Can you tell me what this caycStatus means?

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Hey there.

What API endpoint are you using?

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Hi Colin! I am using this:

api/qualitygates/project_status

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Thanks @Amber1!

For a little while, SonarQube became overzealous about telling users not to adjust the default Quality Gate, such as adding conditions to Overall Code (9.9 docs)

With the Clean as You Code approach, you should always focus on new code, so we do not recommend adding conditions for overall code to your quality gate.

While we still encourage our users to focus on New Code, putting a warning on every project that wanted/needed to be held to a higher standard (thus over-compliant) didn’t go over well.

While the UI no longer displays any information about this, the information is still available in the API.