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Adding new guidance

Create a new Markdown file that follows this pattern, add a link to it from this page, and make a pull request:

---
title: The Title of Your Page
last_reviewed_on: 2021-01-01
review_in: 3 months
---

# The Title of Your Page

Introduction of a couple of paragraphs to explain why the thing you're
writing about is important. The [title should probably be a verb, not a
noun][good-services-are-verbs] (e.g. “Storing source code”, not “Code
repositories”).

[good-services-are-verbs]: https://designnotes.blog.gov.uk/2015/06/22/good-services-are-verbs-2/

## User needs

Why do we do this thing? Who is it helping?

## Principles

What broad approaches do we follow when we do this thing?

## Tools

What specific bits of software (commercial or open source) do
we use to help us do this thing?
This page was last reviewed on 23 June 2021. It needs to be reviewed again on 23 September 2021 .
This page was set to be reviewed before 23 September 2021. This might mean the content is out of date.