# Contribution Guide

*Note: [RFC2119](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2119.txt)*

Engineering Standards are most useful when they are constructed, modified, and aligned to an organization's purpose.

To contribute standards according to your organization's needs and purposes, clone this repository, modify or create a new file, and then generate a Pull Request (hence, PR) or the equivalent for your source-code system.

Per the [core rules](docs/core.md), Stakeholders in the OWNERS file will review the PRs within the declared time frame and either provide feedback or give approval to merge the change.
While violations to this merging rule MAY be permitted by business process, this is discouraged.

## Contributions

- MUST have approval or collaboration with the [Owners](OWNERS.md) of the impacted standards
- MUST have two approvals where at least one of the Owners for each impacted standard is an approver
- SHOULD remain open for at least 1 week (5 business days) to allow time for review
- SHOULD request reviews from impacted teams or teams that own the software for the standard

### NOTE

The [Owners](OWNERS.md) file does not follow the same convention as [CODEOWNERS](https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/managing-your-repositorys-settings-and-features/customizing-your-repository/about-code-owners) in Github or Gitlab.
Each file is different and SHOULD be managed separately.