I think it's important to listen to people who actually produce the software here. It is really really hard to sustain quality. Adding demands just hurts, doesn't help. That's why we are looking at

My argument is that it shouldn't be intended as a final destination. How can you not? The power balance is shifted towards those who produce the software. The ones who make the software are natural

Graduation is not meant to be some kind of super impossible bar. It should be pretty easy to go from successful Incubation to Graduation, provided social conditions are met. Let's not assume that

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I think it's a serious mistake to de-emphasize diversity of employment among project maintainers in a consortium that is all about collaboration. I'd love to explore other venues before throwing the

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It may just be me, but there seems to be a lot of focus on the possibility of "bad actors" and mitigating the possible harm that they can cause. When we build tools like surveys, questionnaires,

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The Open Policy Agent project has applied for graduation from incubation to graduated. (https://github.com/cncf/toc/pull/520) The due diligence document can be found here:

Matt Thanks. A few quick comments (topline for speed). CNCF Incubation tests for production use and technical DD. It has a high bar. Graduation is oriented towards sustainability including some

The start of your original email was clear, but the addition of the word "plan" did make it a bit less so. Thank you for the clarification! I've taken the liberty to re-format the thread below to

We talked about requiring three things from projects reaching Graduated level: 1. A sustainability/longevity plan 2. A process for community feedback on the roadmap 3. Requiring "contributor ladder"

https://github.com/cncf/sig-contributor-strategy/blob/master/resources.md we have been building this for our research and references for the guidance we are creating. the foss governance library is an