Relationships

Front matter records forward relationships: depends, updates and obsoletes on an RFC or ADR, includes on a spec page, and documents on a group. Every reverse relationship is derived by reading the whole repository, and published in the export. updated_by and obsoleted_by are also published in the index, and included_in, less the glossary, as Implemented in.

Derived

For each document:

• updated_by: every document listing it in updates.
• obsoleted_by: every document listing it in obsoletes.
• depended_on_by: every document listing it in depends.
• included_in: for an RFC or ADR, every spec page listing it in includes.
• groups: for an RFC, ADR, ref or spec page, the slug of every group listing it in documents, in order of slug. A group listing a member twice counts once.

And three facts:

• A document is effectively obsolete when any document in its obsoleted_by is accepted. Obsolescence claimed by a draft, proposed, rejected or withdrawn document has no effect.
• An RFC or ADR is implemented when it is accepted and some spec page includes it. A term names the document that introduced it in named_by, which is not an inclusion and contributes nothing here.
• A spec page is stale when it includes a document that is effectively obsolete.

Nothing derived is written into any document.