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chore: Clarify RFD acceptance procedures
This clarifies the procedures around updating the RFD number in an RFD pull request after approval of an RFD by the CVE Board. Signed-off-by: Andrew Lilley Brinker <abrinker@mitre.org>
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- [Open a pull request][gh_pr] from your feature branch to the `develop` branch on the
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CVEProject/cve-schema repository.
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- After the pull request is open, amend the RFD proposal file to link to that
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Pull Request. Leave the RFD number as `0000`, it will be modified upon
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acceptance (if accepted) to take the next available integer ID for an RFD.
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Commit and push that modification to the RFD file.
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Pull Request. Leave the RFD number as `0000`. Commit and push that
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modification to the RFD file. If the RFD is accepted, the RFD number will be
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modified by a QWG Co-Chair to take the next available integer ID for an RFD.
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### What process would RFDs follow after submission?
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Accepted RFDs, meaning RFDs which have been advanced to the CVE Board by the
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QWG and which the CVE Board has voted to approve, will be merged into the
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[CVEProject/cve-schema][gh_repo] repository, and a Tracking Issue will then be
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opened on the repository to track progress on implementing the changes proposed
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in the RFD. The changes, as they've in-principle been approved by the CVE Board
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as part of the process of approving the RFD, will not need to be re-reviewed by
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the Board.
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[CVEProject/cve-schema][gh_repo] repository via the following procedure.
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Upon acceptance of an RFD, a QWG Co-Chair will add a commit to the RFD's
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Pull Request branch, updating the RFD document's RFD number in both the
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filename prefix and within the header text of the RFD itself to use the
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next-available integer ID. For example, if the most-recently-merged RFD had
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the number #0003, the next RFD to be merged would use the ID #0004.
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After this commit is added, the Pull Request for the RFD will be merged by a
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QWG Co-Chair, and a Tracking Issue will then be opened on the repository to
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track progress on implementing the changes proposed in the RFD. The changes,
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as they've in-principle been approved by the CVE Board as part of the process
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of approving the RFD, will not need to be re-reviewed by the Board.
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When all implementation of the RFD is complete and has been merged, the
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Tracking Issue will be closed and the changes proposed by the RFD and now

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