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“Markdown Architectural Decision Records” (MADR) [ˈmæɾɚ] – architectural decisions that matter [ˈmæɾɚ].

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  • 2020-09-29: MADR presented in the keynote “Markdown Architectural Decision Records: Capturing Decisions Where the Developer is Working” at the workshop “Second Software Documentation Generation Challenge (DocGen2)”. Slides available at Speaker Deck.
  • 2019-07-08: MADR referenced in Architectural Decisions — The Making Of, a post in the new blog “The Concerned Architect” by Olaf Zimmermann (shorter version available on Medium).
  • 2018-04-13: Mentioned in @vanto’s presentation about ADRs: https://speakerdeck.com/vanto/a-brief-introduction-to-architectural-decision-records.
  • 2018-04-03: Scientific publication: Markdown Architectural Decision Records: Format and Tool Support.

Overview

An Architectural Decision (AD) is a software design choice that addresses a functional or non-functional requirement that is architecturally significant. This might, for instance, be a technology choice (e.g., Java vs. JavaScript), a choice of the IDE (e.g., IntelliJ vs. Eclipse IDE), a choice between a library (e.g., SLF4J vs java.util.logging), or a decision on features (e.g., infinite undo vs. limited undo).Do not take the term “architecture” too seriously or interpret it too strongly.As the examples illustrate, any decisions that might have an impact on the architecture somehow are architectural decisions.

It should be as easy as possible toa) write down the decisions andb) to version the decisions.

This repository offers a solution to record architectural decisions.It provides files to document Architectural Decisions using Markdown and Architectural Decision Records.

The decisions are placed in the folder docs/adr to1) Enable GitHub pages to render it using the web. See https://help.github.com/articles/configuring-a-publishing-source-for-github-pages/ for more information.2) Separate the architectural decisions from other documentation.

The filenames are following the pattern NNNN-title-with-dashes.md (ADR-0005), where

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  • NNNN is a consecutive number and we assume that there won’t be more than 9,999 ADRs in one repository.
  • the title is stored using dashes and lowercase, because adr-tools also does that.
  • the suffix is .md, because it is a Markdown file.

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The Template

The template reads as follows: Download kye input devices driver.

The template is available at template/template.md.

Example

The example is rendered at template/0000-use-markdown-architectural-decision-records.md

For the MADR project itself, all ADRs exist at docs/adr/.

Apply it to your project

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Initialization

Create folder docs/adr in your project.Copy all files in template from the MADR project to the folder docs/adr in your project.

For instance, using npm, this can be done using the following command:

Create a new ADR

Manual approach:

  1. Copy template.md to NNNN-title-with-dashes.md, where NNNN indicates the next number in sequence.
  2. Edit NNNN-title-with-dashes.md.
  3. Update index.md, e.g., by executing adr-log -d .You can get adr-log by executing npm install -g adr-log.

Note you can also use other patterns for the directory format, but then the tools cannot be applied.

Automatic approach:

Use our fork of adr-tools.See https://github.com/npryce/adr-tools/pull/43 for the current status of integration.

Mode

Development

  • MADR follows Semantic Versioning 2.0.0 and documents changes in a CHANGELOG.md following keep a changelog 1.0.0.
  • Issues can be reported at https://github.com/adr/madr/issues.
  • Use the Markdown Style Guide space-sentence:1, wrap:sentence, header:atx, list-marker:asterisk, list-space:1, code:fenced

Inforad usb devices driver. Releasing a new version:

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  1. Update CHANGELOG.md.
  2. Update README.md with the new template and the example.
  3. Adapt the version reference in template/0000-use-markdown-architectural-decision-records.md.
  4. Copy template/0000-use-markdown-architectural-decision-records.md to docs/adr/0000-use-markdown-architectural-decision-records.md.
  5. Update package.json, publish to npmjs, create GitHub release.
    Use release-it (do not create a release on GitHub) and github-release-from-changelog.

License

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License: CC0