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.

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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, ensure publishable sources follow docs/DESIGN-PRINCIPLES.md and refresh the public handbook per docs/MAINTENANCE.md; update the human handbook in blueprints/pdlc/docs/ per blueprints/pdlc/docs/MAINTENANCE.md where HTML handbooks are used.

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.