[short title of solved problem and solution]

• Status: [accepted

  superseeded by ADR-0005

  deprecated

  …]

• Deciders: [list everyone involved in the decision]
• Date: [YYYY-MM-DD when the decision was last updated]

Technical Story: [description

ticket/issue URL]

Context and Problem Statement

[Describe the context and problem statement, e.g., in free form using two to three sentences. You may want to articulate the problem in form of a question.]

Decision Drivers

• [driver 1, e.g., a force, facing concern, …]
• [driver 2, e.g., a force, facing concern, …]
• …

Considered Options

• [option 1]
• [option 2]
• [option 3]
• …

Decision Outcome

Chosen option: “[option 1]”, because [justification. e.g., only option, which meets k.o. criterion decision driver

which resolves force force

…

comes out best (see below)].

Positive Consequences

• [e.g., improvement of quality attribute satisfaction, follow-up decisions required, …]
• …

Negative consequences

• [e.g., compromising quality attribute, follow-up decisions required, …]
• …

Pros and Cons of the Options

[option 1]

[example

description

pointer to more information

…]

• Good, because [argument a]
• Good, because [argument b]
• Bad, because [argument c]
• …

[option 2]

[example

description

pointer to more information

…]

• Good, because [argument a]
• Good, because [argument b]
• Bad, because [argument c]
• …

[option 3]

[example

description

pointer to more information

…]

• Good, because [argument a]
• Good, because [argument b]
• Bad, because [argument c]
• …

Links

• [Link type] [Link to ADR]
• …

License

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See the NOTICE file(s) distributed with this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.

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SPDX-License-Identifier: EPL-2.0 OR Apache-2.0