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    :caption: Introduction
 
    introduction/chord
+   introduction/provenance
    introduction/singularity_server
 
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+==================
+Project Provenance
+==================
+
+Releases are authorized by a committee composed of CHORD and shared platform
+software developers and project managers.
+
+Before publication, release candidates *currently* go through the following
+validation process:
+
+  * Comprehensive service- and library-level testing suites
+  * Testing by hand using synthetic datasets on local machines
+  * Advance deployment on select instances that opt into testing newer versions
+
+As part of the release process, documentation is included in the form of tagged
+versions of the this website, and service-level ``README`` files for
+service-specific technical details.
+
+The developers of the platform are constantly monitoring for the latest patches
+to dependencies used in the project. Any updates that are of critical
+importance (bug fixes, security flaws) will warrant a patch release of the
+software itself, which will pass through the standard release vetting process.