Decision records shall have a date

[a-zw]

Since they reflect decisions made at a specific time, it is often very informative when that happened.

[github-actions]

The created documentation from the pull request is available at: docu-html

[masc2023]

Will be discussed in the next community meeting

[masc2023]

Compare here, date is part of commit history e.g. https://github.com/eclipse-score/score/commits/main/docs/design_decisions/DR-003-infra.md, if there is a way to put it in automatically, fine for me.

[a-zw]

Git history tells you when a file is modified that might be more recent than the last status change. For example, consider a mere layout change.

[a-zw]

For reference, DR-004 just got merged. In contrast to 001 to 003, it is much closer to the process-provided template. I put the date into the content there.

[aschemmel-tech]

I am against this documentation of information that we already get provided by version management. If it is about a status change (which is documented in one line) you can find out via git blame. If we do this in this kind of documentation, this would in my opinion invalidate our argumentation that for documents we do not need to document author, reviewer, version, date because this all is in github already available. If you want to automatize this setting of the date, I would be fine, but is it really worth the effort?

[aschemmel-tech]

I do not support this

[aschemmel-tech]

I am against this documentation of information that we already get provided by version management. If it is about a status change (which is documented in one line) you can find out via git blame. If we do this in this kind of documentation, this would in my opinion invalidate our argumentation that for documents we do not need to document author, reviewer, version, date because this all is in github already available. If you want to automatize this setting of the date, I would be fine, but is it really worth the effort?

[masc2023]

@a-zw , Process Community do not agree to add this new attribute, any change can be seen in the commit history (including date, status and which code changed), otherwise we would also need to discuss, why it is only for DR documents and not for all others.