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Document MAINTAINERS.md email-optional decision (ADR-0002) - #319
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Captures the decision reached in finos#308 to make the MAINTAINERS.md Email field optional (already implemented FINOS-wide via the software-project-blueprint template), superseding the mailing-list recommendation originally proposed in that issue. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Adds ADR-0002 to document the already-reached FINOS-wide decision that the MAINTAINERS.md Email field is optional, and updates the ADR index accordingly.
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adrs/0002-maintainers-md-email-field-optional.mddocumenting the decision context, options, outcome, and consequences. - Update
adrs/README.mdto include ADR-0002 in the index.
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| File | Description |
|---|---|
| adrs/README.md | Adds ADR-0002 to the ADR index table. |
| adrs/0002-maintainers-md-email-field-optional.md | New ADR capturing the “Email field optional” decision and rationale from #308. |
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Summary
Follow-up to #314. Records, as an ADR, the actual decision reached in #308's discussion for how
MAINTAINERS.mdshould handle contact information — theEmailfield is optional (not the per-project mailing list, Option D, originally recommended in #308).adrs/0002-maintainers-md-email-field-optional.md, walking through how the discussion moved from Option D (mailing list) to Option E (optional field) once @TheJuanAndOnly99 raised the operational cost of provisioning/moderating mailing lists FINOS-wide, and @eddie-knight's summary of the resulting consensusfinos-project-maintainersgroup) before ADR-0001 formally established the ADR process — this ADR documents it after the fact, per ADR-0001's own consequence that past decisions worth preserving can be written up retroactivelyadrs/README.mdindexOne open item flagged in the ADR itself, not addressed by this PR: this repo's own
MAINTAINERS.mdheader still readsEmailrather thanEmail (Optional)— tracked as a follow-up.Related: #308, #306, #314
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adrs/0002-...mdresolve correctly on GitHub