[coreboot-gerrit] Change in coreboot[master]: Documentation: Open up avenue for codifying our best practices

[Patrick Georgi (Code Review)]

Patrick Georgi has submitted this change. ( https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/58663 )

Change subject: Documentation: Open up avenue for codifying our best practices
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Documentation: Open up avenue for codifying our best practices

Change-Id: I3a2612ae64ecea2d1d7ecb695215bc50dccb1b19
Signed-off-by: Patrick Georgi 
Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/58663
Reviewed-by: Arthur Heymans 
Reviewed-by: Martin Roth 
Reviewed-by: Paul Menzel 
Reviewed-by: Angel Pons 
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) 
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Approvals:
  build bot (Jenkins): Verified
  Martin Roth: Looks good to me, approved
  Paul Menzel: Looks good to me, but someone else must approve
  Arthur Heymans: Looks good to me, approved
  Angel Pons: Looks good to me, approved

diff --git a/Documentation/index.md b/Documentation/index.md
index c518c50..bdfb6bf 100644
--- a/Documentation/index.md
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@@ -45,6 +45,12 @@
 project. We fearlessly rip out parts of the architecture and remodel it
 when a better way of doing the same was identified.

+That said, since there are attempts to coerce coreboot to move in various
+directions by outside "standardization", long-established practices of
+coreboot as well as aligned projects can be documented as best practices,
+making them standards in their own right. However we reserve the right to
+retire them as the landscape shifts around us.
+
 ### One tree for everything

Another difference to various other firmware projects is that we try