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- Have an open and documented technical governance, including:
- A LICENSE file in every code repository, with the license chosen an OSI-approved license.
- A README file welcoming new community members to the project and explaining why the project is useful and how to get started
- A CONTRIBUTING file explaining to other developers and your community of users how to contribute to the project. The file should explain what types of contributions are needed and how the process works.
- A CODEOWNERS or COMMITTERS file to define individuals or teams that are responsible for code in a repository; document current project owners and current and emeritus committers.
- A CODE_OF_CONDUCT file that sets the ground rules for participants’ behavior associated and helps to facilitate a friendly, welcoming environment. By default projects should leverage the Linux Foundation Code of Conduct unless an alternate Code of Conduct is approved prior.
- A RELEASE file that provides documentation on the release methodology, cadence, criteria, etc.
- A GOVERNANCE file that documents the project’s technical governance.
- A SUPPORT file to let users and developers know about ways to get help with your project.
- Complete and approve the Technical Charter and agree to transfer any relevant trademarks to The Linux Foundation or its affiliate, LF Projects, LLC, and to assist in filing for any relevant unregistered ones.
- Have achieved and maintained an OpenSSF Best Practices Badge at the ‘Passing' level.
- Have had a successful license scan with any critical issues remedied.
- Have a defined project mission and scope
- An overview of the project’s architecture and features defined.
- The project roadmap defined, which should address the following questions.
- What use cases are possible now?
- What does the next year look like in terms of additional features and use cases covered?
- Community and contributor growth assessment
- The current number of contributors and committers, and the number of different organizations contributing to the project.
- Demonstrate a sustained flow of commits / merged contributions
- A credible plan for developing a thriving user community, in particular expanding the number of committers and contributors?
- An outline of the plan for the project to complete the requirements for the Early Adoption stage
- Receive the affirmative majority vote of the TAC.
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