Decision Drivers / Forces

[mmadson]

What happened to them? I don't see a discussion about their removal in either the changelog or adrs. I always found them to be the most important part of the template.

[koppor]

What do you mean by the slash in "Decision Drivers / Forces"?

I open https://github.com/adr/madr/blob/main/template/adr-template.md

I see "Decision Drivers":

I open https://github.com/adr/madr/blob/main/docs/decisions/adr-template.md

I see "Decision Drivers":

Please provide me a step-by-step introduction where exactly you miss "Decision Drivers"!

[mmadson]

Hey there,

What I meant by the slash between drivers and forces was a synonym. I've heard decision drivers referred to as decision forces in the past, however it doesn't seem like either decision drivers or decision forces are currently documented on the published madr website. I'm relieved to hear they are still part of the actual template but without any documentation to reinforce their use, I fear people may argue they are not actually part of the spec.

To confirm you can go to https://adr.github.io/madr/ and https://adr.github.io/madr/examples.html and search for either the keyword "driver" or "force" and you will observe it does not appear anywhere on the published site, not even in the "long version example", leading me to believe the section was removed or deprecated.

[koppor]

To confirm you can go to adr.github.io/madr and adr.github.io/madr/examples.html and search for either the keyword "driver" or "force" and you will observe it does not appear anywhere on the published site, not even in the "long version example", leading me to believe the section was removed or deprecated.

Thank you for the hint. You are welcome to submit another example.

I keep this issue open until this is solved.

I fully agree, we should work on the homepage. However, we currently don't find time to do that.

Nitpick: We used "longer" than "full" to indicate there is even more to put in:

Nothing prevents you to start from adr-template.md.

Other interesting thing: At https://web.archive.org/web/20201101000000*/https://adr.github.io/madr one can browse through different incarnations of the homepage. - Ah, and I see that the old homepage provided the full template - https://web.archive.org/web/20201128000936/https://adr.github.io/madr/.

I remember that the reason to remove the full template was its length.

Think, we should re-add it to have the main page concise and to prevent users to be puzzled about two places to look at the template.

[mmadson]

Got it, understood. If there is a way I can help the community please do let me know. We were very puzzled when we were quickly searching the main page and couldn't find the decision drivers when showing MADRs to a new engineer. It's a super helpful aspect of the template in our opinion and would love to see it return to the main page in some fashion. Regardless glad to know about the underlying template in the repo. Will point to that for now.

[koppor]

Thank you for your patience. I created a quick fix at #96.

It displays the development version now at the homepage. Manually keeping the template up-to-date on the homepage lead to errors here. Maybe, it is also in the spirit of "release early, release often" to get early feedback of the community.

Screenshot:

Hope, this solves the issue in an (at least) OKish way 😅