# Rule Maintenance

> The degree to which keeping fitness-function rules current adds ongoing upkeep effort.

Record: `lexicon:rule-maintenance`
Kind: quality-attribute
Layer: [Evolution Principles](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/evolution-principles.md)
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon#lexicon-rule-maintenance

Listed in [Lexicon terms](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/lexicon.md), after [Incremental Change](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/incremental-change.md) and before [Undefined Target](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/undefined-target.md).

## Category

- [Architecture Review Evolution Governance](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon-category/architecture-review-evolution-governance.md)

## In tension with

- [Fitness Functions](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/fitness-functions.md)
- [Fitness Functions / Rule Maintenance](https://banes-lab.com/records/tension/fitness-functions-rule-maintenance.md)

## Linked from

- [Architecture Review / Evolution / Governance Artifacts](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/principles/architecture-category-architecture-review-evolution-governance-artifacts.md)
- [The resolutions](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema/the-resolutions.md)