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+# Backstage documentation
+# https://backstage.io/docs/features/software-catalog/descriptor-format/
+
+# !!! WARNING !!!
+# This is a template file with a number of fields that need to be filled before merging this to the default branch
+apiVersion: backstage.io/v1alpha1
+# Component, API, Template, Group, User, Resource, System, Domain, Location
+kind: unknown
+metadata:
+  name: starter-gatsby-blog 
+  description: unknown
+  annotations:
+    github.com/project-slug: contentful/starter-gatsby-blog 
+    contentful.com/service-tier: "unknown" #1, 2, 3, 4
+
+  tags:
+    - update-me
+    #need to add sast.yaml to .github/workflows and enable it in polaris dashboard
+    #once that is done this can be changed to sast-enabled
+    - sast-disabled
+    #make this match the value from service-tier above
+    - tier-unknown
+spec:
+  #cli, component, contentful.com/template, documentation, function, library, service, template, website
+  type: unknown 
+  #deprecated, experimental, production, unknown
+  lifecycle: unknown  
+  system: unknown #optional
+  # your team name as it appears in github when tagging them for reviews
+  owner: group:team-devrel