Summary
Introduce a lightweight ADR process for governance-impacting decisions.
Problem
Major governance changes (CI tiering, release controls, contribution enforcement) currently rely on PR discussion only, which can make long-term rationale hard to audit.
Proposal
- Add
docs/adr/ with a small ADR template.
- Require ADR for changes to governance/security/release policy boundaries.
- Link ADRs from relevant policy sections.
Acceptance criteria
- ADR template and process are documented.
- At least one recent governance decision is captured as an ADR example.
- Policy docs reference ADR usage triggers.
Category
DEFER