Standards Catalog

Approved technologies, tools, and methodologies. All new initiatives should use standards from this catalog unless an exception is granted.

Emerging Being evaluated
Trial Limited use approved
Standard Fully approved
Contained Use limited to existing
Retiring Migration required
Standard Category Lifecycle Description Owner Actions
GitHub
STD-001
Development Standard Version control, code hosting, and collaboration for all software projects
Tech WG
Discord
STD-002
Collaboration Standard Primary community chat and voice communication platform
CW Comm WG
Notion
STD-003
Collaboration Standard Documentation, knowledge base, and project management
Policy WG
Markdown
STD-004
Development Standard Standard format for all documentation and content
Core
Snapshot
STD-005
Collaboration Trial Decentralized voting for governance decisions
GV Gov WG
Plausible Analytics
STD-006
Data & Analytics Standard Privacy-focused web analytics
Tech WG
Netlify
STD-007
Infrastructure Standard Web hosting and deployment platform
Tech WG
ADR (MADR Format)
STD-008
Methods Standard Architecture Decision Records using MADR template
AB Arch Board
Slack
STD-009
Collaboration Retiring Legacy chat platform - migrate to Discord by Q2 2026
CW Comm WG

GitHub

STD-001 Standard
Description
GitHub is the standard platform for all version control, code hosting, and software development collaboration within the PLE community. All code repositories, including website, tools, and documentation as code, must be hosted on the PLE GitHub organization.
Approved Use Cases
Source code version control for all software projects
Issue tracking and project management for development work
CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions
Documentation as code using GitHub Pages
Constraints & Guidelines
All repositories must be public unless containing sensitive data
Branch protection must be enabled on main branches
All commits must be signed with verified signatures
Related Architecture Elements
Lifecycle History
  • Jan 15, 2026: Approved as Standard by Architecture Board
  • Dec 10, 2025: Trial period completed successfully
  • Oct 1, 2025: Entered Trial phase
  • Sept 15, 2025: Proposed by Technical Working Group