3.4 Implementation Technology Baseline
The implementation technology Baseline identifies the technologies and tools that the team uses to create the Phase 0 executable Baseline. This includes the selected DDS tooling, IDL generation approach, programming language choices, scripting environment, container tooling, Git Workflow, and development environment.
The team should document each required technology with sufficient precision for another developer to reproduce the environment. Version expectations, installation assumptions, required command-line tools, environment variables, and Validation steps should be documented in the handbook or the supporting Repository documentation.
The technology Baseline should distinguish required tools from optional tools. Required tools support Repository creation, Type generation, build execution, container operation, Node execution, logging, testing, and acceptance Evidence. Optional tools may improve developer productivity, but the Baseline should not depend on them unless the team later promotes them to required status.
The technology Baseline should also distinguish runtime implementation choices from developer-support tooling. For example, Python may support Repository setup, Validation, generation orchestration, and inspection utilities without becoming the normative runtime language for production Nodes.
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