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Implements the consequences of DR-002-Proc (accepted), which introducesthe Feature & Enhancement Proposal (FEP) process for Feature and major Feature Modification change requests.

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  • feature_request.rst rewritten as the living FEP Process Guide, superseding the old TL-circle review guideline: roles, labels, the five process phases with tracking-issue lifecycle, and the FEP template.
  • change_management.rst: FEP routing added for Feature and major Feature Modification CRs.
  • software_architecture_overview.rst: references updated to the FEP Process Guide.
  • project_management.rst: Feature Request definition aligned with the FEP tracking issue (type Feature Request, may parent child Task issues for implementation tracking).

See DR-002-Proc for the decision and rationale.

Refs #3061

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A proposal classified as **Breaking Change** must additionally include:

* **Impact Inventory**: explicit list of known integrators, configurations, or customer deliverables that will break

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You are right that the Breaking Change section doesnt clearly relate to FR template today, but I think the actual problem might be one level up.

The FR template currently serves two different purposes in one file: proposing a change (Motivation, Backwards Compatibility, Rejected Ideas, Open Issues - point-in-time, argument-for-the-change content) and documenting the resulting feature (Abstract, Rationale, Specification, Security/Safety Impact - living, current-state content).

My intent here (not yet fully reflected/settled): separate these explicitly. A Feature Change / FEP record carries the proposal-only content, including Backwards Compatibility, and lives with the change. Feature Documentation stays in docs/features/ with only Abstract, Rationale, Specification, Security Impact, Safety Impact, kept current as the feature evolves. Some headings would appear in both but ask a different question - e.g. Safety Impact of the feature overall vs. Safety Impact of this specific change - so one wouldnt simply reference the other.

This might be bigger than this PR since it touches FT template, used by every existing feature doc. Genuinely open on this - I would like your/the Process Communities read before committing.

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Comment thread docs/platform_management_plan/project_management.rst
@qor-lb qor-lb force-pushed the qor-lb_fep_rollout branch from 4ef9140 to e8953f9 Compare July 12, 2026 14:46
Implement the consequences of DR-002-Proc (FEP process) across the
four affected documents:
- feature_request.rst: rewritten as the living FEP Process Guide,
  superseding the old TL-circle review guideline. Defines roles
  (Author, Shepherd, Architecture Community), labels, the five
  process phases with tracking-issue lifecycle, and the FEP
  template.
- change_management.rst: adds FEP routing for Feature and major
  Feature Modification CRs.
- software_architecture_overview.rst: updates references from the
  old guideline to the FEP Process Guide.
- project_management.rst: aligns the Feature Request definition
  with the FEP tracking issue (type Feature Request, allowed as a
  parent to child Task issues for implementation tracking).

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5
@qor-lb qor-lb force-pushed the qor-lb_fep_rollout branch from e8953f9 to 1c044ce Compare July 12, 2026 16:15
@qor-lb qor-lb requested a review from arsibo July 12, 2026 16:17
```{dec_rec} <Short imperative title>
:id: dec_rec__<arch|proc|strat|infra|int>__<slug>
:status: draft
:tracking: <GitHub issue URL, required once a Shepherd is confirmed>

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Template can be updated with this new attribute, so finally there should no specific addition, it may also be required in general, will be implemented here, eclipse-score/process_description#744

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