Blueprint policy — do not change casually

This directory blueprints/pdlc/ is the frozen PDLC package: product lifecycle conventions meant to be reused and compared across projects.

Rules

1. Do not edit files here as part of normal product work (discovery notes, experiment logs, metrics dashboards, etc.).
2. Change only when explicitly requested — e.g. adopting a new blueprint version, fixing an upstream template bug, or a deliberate policy decision to revise the baseline.
3. Day-to-day product work belongs in docs/product/ (living product-functional content) and project-specific folders, not in this blueprint.
4. If you change PDLC.md, PDLC-SDLC-BRIDGE.md, approaches/*.md, or related blueprint files, update the human handbook in blueprints/pdlc/docs/ per blueprints/pdlc/docs/MAINTENANCE.md.

Relationship to docs/product/

• blueprints/pdlc/ — canonical, generic text (immutable by convention).
• docs/product/ — where this project creates, interprets, and extends product lifecycle artifacts without touching the blueprint.

Copying this repo: you may copy blueprints/pdlc/ wholesale to another repository; use docs/product/ (or equivalent) only in repos that track project-specific product artifacts.