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4b. The ad-hoc committee will review the contribution for general EdgeX use. However, the committee may find the contribution (or a portion of the contribution) would better exist as a project or addition to a vertical working group solution. Therefore, the ad-hoc committee may pass the contribution (or a portion of the contribution) on to the appropriate vertical working group chairperson where the same evaluation would occur, but in light of any EdgeX vertical solution.
Special note for device service contributions: the device service working group chair has documented a review process for how new device services will be examined.
IMPORTANT PROCESS NOTE: if a contributor does not begin the contribution process by working with the appropriate Working Group chairperson and getting their feedback (i.e. the contributor skips step #1 above), then the contribution can still be made and this process starts at step #2. However, the evaluation of the contribution, as described in this step #4, will generally take longer and could result in many more exchanges with the contributor to understand where it fits in the overall architecture, how it works, etc.
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