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XwkOnt Project Lifecycle

Status: Draft

This document defines how ideas evolve into authoritative project artifacts.

The Git repository is the Single Source of Truth (SSOT) for XwkOnt.

This document is intentionally an outline. It will be refined after the Standards Discovery phase.

Guiding Principles

  • Repository First
  • Reuse Before Introduce
  • Everything Has Provenance
  • Reflexive Consistency

See:

  • Founding Principles
  • Architectural Principles
  • Editorial Policy
  • Architecture Decision Records (ADR)

Lifecycle

Discussion
    ↓
Research
    ↓
Evaluation
    ↓
Architecture Decision Record (ADR)
    ↓
Repository Update
    ↓
Implementation
    ↓
Review
    ↓
Publication

Governance Hierarchy

  1. Founding Principles
  2. Architecture Decision Records (ADR)
  3. Architectural Principles
  4. Editorial Policy
  5. Project Lifecycle
  6. TODO Roadmap
  7. Implementation

Standards Adoption Workflow

Status: Initial baseline adopted

Standards decisions follow this sequence:

  1. Discover candidate standards and authoritative sources.
  2. Evaluate fit against XwkOnt principles and scope.
  3. Assign an explicit disposition: adopt, adapt, reference, defer, or reject.
  4. Capture significant adoption or adaptation decisions in an ADR.
  5. Update the standards baseline before implementation work depends on the decision.

The current standards baseline is docs/STANDARDS_BASELINE.md. Implementation work should treat that document and accepted ADRs as the starting point for information architecture and artifact design.

Repository Workflow

Status: TBD

Documentation Workflow

Status: TBD

Release Workflow

Status: TBD

Community Workflow

Status: TBD

Future Evolution

This document will evolve as XwkOnt adopts established standards and governance practices.

Project-specific processes should be introduced only after evaluating existing best practices.