1____ 2# Design Guidelines - *Delete this section* 3 4* Not all new features need a design document. If a feature can be 5 contributed in a single reasonably small patchset that has little impact 6 to any other areas, it doesn't need a design discussion and documentation. 7* The focus of the design is to define the problem we need to solve and how it 8 will be implemented. 9* This is not intended to be extensive documentation for a new feature. 10* You should get your design reviewed and merged before writing your code. 11 However you are free to prototype the implementation, but remember that 12 you may learn of new requirements during the design review process that 13 could result in a very different solution. 14* Your spec should be in Markdown format, like this template. 15* Please wrap text at 79 columns. 16* Please do not delete any of the sections in this template. If you have 17 nothing to say for a whole section, just write: None 18* To view your .md file, see: https://stackedit.io/ 19* If you would like to provide a diagram with your spec, ASCII diagrams are 20 required. http://asciiflow.com/ is a very nice tool to assist with making 21 ASCII diagrams. Plain text will allow the review to proceed without 22 having to look at additional files which can not be viewed in Gerrit. It 23 will also allow inline feedback on the diagram itself. 24* Once ready for review, submit to gerrit and set the topic of the review 25 to "design" 26____ 27 28# Example design - this is the design title 29 30Author: 31 < Name and Discord nic > 32 33Primary assignee: 34 < Name and/or Discord nic or None > 35 36Other contributors: 37 < Name and/or Discord nic or None > 38 39Created: 40 < Date initially created in Month D, Yr format (e.g. June 17, 2020 or Dec 19, 41 2019)> 42 43## Problem Description 44(1 paragraph) What are we doing and why? What problem are you trying to 45solve? What are the goals and NON-goals? Please make the objective 46understandable for someone unfamiliar with this project by including the 47necessary context, but keep it short. Elaborate on the details below in the 48Background and Requirements sections. 49 50## Background and References 51(1-2 paragraphs) What background context is necessary? You should mention 52related work inside and outside of OpenBMC. What other Open Source projects 53are trying to solve similar problems? Try to use links or references to 54external sources (other docs or Wikipedia), rather than writing your own 55explanations. Please include document titles so they can be found when links 56go bad. Include a glossary if necessary. Note: this is background; do not 57write about your design, specific requirements details, or ideas to solve 58problems here. 59 60## Requirements 61(2-5 paragraphs) What are the constraints for the problem you are trying to 62solve? Who are the users of this solution? What is required to be produced? 63What is the scope of this effort? Your job here is to quickly educate others 64about the details you know about the problem space, so they can help review 65your implementation. Roughly estimate relevant details. How big is the data? 66What are the transaction rates? Bandwidth? 67 68## Proposed Design 69(2-5 paragraphs) A short and sweet overview of your implementation ideas. If 70you have alternative solutions to a problem, list them concisely in a bullet 71list. This should not contain every detail of your implementation, and do 72not include code. Use a diagram when necessary. Cover major structural 73elements in a very succinct manner. Which technologies will you use? What 74new components will you write? What technologies will you use to write them? 75 76## Alternatives Considered 77(2 paragraphs) Include alternate design ideas here which you are leaning away 78from. Elaborate on why a design was considered and why the idea was rejected. 79Show that you did an extensive survey about the state of the art. Compares 80your proposal's features & limitations to existing or similar solutions. 81 82## Impacts 83API impact? Security impact? Documentation impact? Performance impact? 84Developer impact? Upgradability impact? 85 86## Testing 87How will this be tested? How will this feature impact CI testing? 88