A decision that has been approved for an ADR, issue needs to be accompanied by Progress label KB::In Progress, KB::Done

A proposed solution for an issue that requires deliberation and changing of existing behavior

A decision that has been rejected for various technical and business reasons

An implemented solution that has been marked as retired/obsolete

A trialing prototype that has been spiked while pending final approval for the ADR. This step is needed for complex proposal that is hard to estimate on paper.

The ADR has been raised in the community and respective contributor members have been notified to provide feedback and reviews.

Label for issues closed by script or automated processes

This issue / MR affects the AWS Cloud Platform

This issue / MR affects the Azure Cloud Platform

This issue / MR indicates that the issue / code changes presents a breaking change, potentially affecting compatibility or existing functionality. A mitigation strategy must be communicated, providing guidance on how to adapt or resolve the breaking change for affected users or systems.

Merge request label for indicating cherry picks

This issue / MR affects the common code

A label indicating that the issue is processed in the Data Definition member GitLab (with a issue reference assigned).

This label is used to indicate a MR that is a direct patch into a release branch for fixing an issue without a merge in main/master branch

This issue / MR captures a change in documentation

This issue is closed because it is a duplicate of an associated/related issue. The status of the related issue applies.

This issue / MR affects the Google Cloud Platform

This label is used to indicate cherry picks into previous releases for fixing an issue, this is for backporting patches in up to N-2 releases.

This issue / MR affects the IBM Implementation on Open Shift

An Architectural Decision Record (ADR) is a result of an issue backlog on feature request/enhancement, defect fixing, or a new OSDU standard that has triggered the need for a new design (perhaps requiring new technology selections, architecture patterns)