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This page is meant as a template for writing a CIPCEP. To create a CIP CEP choose Tools->Copy on this page and modify with your content and replace the heading with the next CIP CEP number and a description of your issue. Replace anything in italics with your own description.

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Please keep the discussion on the mailing list rather than commenting on the wiki (wiki discussions get unwieldy fast).

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Scope

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Goals

What must this allow users to do, that they can't currently.

What problem(s) is this proposal not designed to solve.

Approach

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Timeline

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Mailing list / Slack channels

Mailing list: 

• here

Slack channel: 

• here

Discussion threads: 

• here

Related JIRA tickets

JIRA(s): 

• here

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Motivation

Describe the problems you are trying to solve.

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The intended client audience. Examples include data scientists, data engineers, library devs, devops, etc. A single CIP CEP can have multiple target personas. 

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What must this allow users to do, that they can't currently.

Non-Goals

What problem(s) is this proposal not designed to solve.

Proposed Changes

Describe the new thing you want to do in appropriate detail. This may be fairly extensive and have large subsections of its own. Or it may be a few sentences. Use judgement based on the scope of the change.

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Describe in few sentences how the CIP CEP will be tested. We are mostly interested in system tests (since unit-tests are specific to implementation details). How will we know that the implementation works as expected? How will we know nothing broke?

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