[Agenda Item] Update to Software Project Lifecycle

[Sophietn]

Overview

Revised Software Project Lifecycle to be reviewed

5 Stages:

1. Proposal - Any GSF Member may raise a project proposal idea.
2. Incubation - The project is in it’s experimental stage, and is being explored by the project team.
3. Graduated - The project is considered mature and stable, and is supported by an active community.
4. Maintained - The project is considered Graduated but new versions aren’t being released, except for bug fix maintenance.
5. Archived - The project is considered dormant and any releases are no longer being maintained.

Revised Acceptance Criteria to Incubation (for awareness)

• The proposed project must meet the following requirements to reach Incubation:
• Have a representative of at least one GSF member company participating, who is a WG attendee who will champion the project, volunteer to run it as project lead and share updates at the WG
• Have an assigned GSF PM
• Project name should not be trademarked and should have the approval of GSF marketing
• Similar or competitive projects are allowed. Projects are not excluded for reasons of overlap.

Revised Acceptance Criteria to Graduate (to be reviewed)

The project must meet the Incubation requirements as well as the following:

• Have a active set of contributing members from at least two member organisations
• Have a public GitHub repo with clear project documentation on
  • Project overview (ReadMe)
  • How to contribute (contributing.md )
  • End User Guide (enablement.md)
  • Test coverage
  • Fit within GSF Theory of Change
• Have made a release deployment, even a ‘developer preview’
• Evidence of usefulness through real world use cases in the production environment, including testimonials (adopters.md)
• Have 100% of the applicable criteria for the Open SSF Best Practice Badge (security.md)
• Have an incident process agreed with GSF PM.
• Have GSF processes set up including
  • Project meetings and mailing lists
  • Up to date project documentation on confluence
  • Provide regular updates to the relevant WG
  • Have defined OKRs agreed by the GSF PM
• Similar or competitive projects are allowed, but the project should not contradict with another GSF Graduated project.

Related topic

The type of agenda item you want to propose.

• [ ] Governance: New project
• [x] Governance: Other
• [x] Process
• [ ] External Engagement
• [ ] Technology
• [ ] Other

Related working groups

• [ ] Community
• [ ] Open Source
• [ ] Policy
• [ ] Standards
• [x] Oversight Committee

Related issues or discussions

Once agreed a PR will be raised to update this page on the OC website

Please list all related issues so that we can see the originating conversation, e.g. #10 or https://github.com/Green-Software-Foundation/discussions/discussions/5

More information:

Any other information you want to add.

[tmcclell]

Love the proposal and detail outlines. Can't think of anything to add at this time. Good work @Sophietn! I agree with the proposal outlined.

[Sophietn]

Thanks @tmcclell! The PR to update the OC website with these changes is here: https://github.com/Green-Software-Foundation/oc/pull/64 I'll merge tomorrow if no objections.

[Sophietn]

PR raised. 9th Nov Motion raised. 5 days notice given. 2 approvals received and no objections. 14th Nov merged. Closing this issue