Lifecycle importers

An importer reads one authoritative, machine-readable source and drafts lifecycle rules from it, so the rules grow from sources instead of being typed in by hand. Importers are maintainer tooling: scans never run them and never use the network. The decision behind them is Decision 0005.

The importers moved with the rules to Ebb, the open lifecycle dataset Offing reads. How they work, how to run one, and how to add a source are in Ebb's importers guide.