As a project intending to move to stage 2 of the OpenRail incubation process, please fill out this questionnaire and send it to the Technical Committee. See the incubation process for details about criteria and requirements for new projects and how it works to get new projects into the association.
Copy this template and fill in your answers to the questions in the sections below.
How to assess project health depends on the context of the concrete project. Please answer the questions below and add any additional explanations or data you see as useful to show that the project has a healthy community and development activity.
How high is the risk to a project should the most active people leave? This is called the Contributor Absence Factor, sometimes also referred to as bus factor.
Indicate activity by number of commits, number of issues closed, pull request merged, etc.
Indicate documentation of the release process, how changes are communicated, versioning schemes, signing of release artifacts, etc.
Indicate documentation of the project governance.
Indicate links to the roadmap of the project and how planning is done.
If the project includes specifications, where are reference implementations for these specifications?
Does the project include licensing information according to the REUSE standard? When is the REUSE linter run? Does the project show a REUSE badge?
Do commits include "Signed-Off" trailers? Is the DCO bot enabled on the project?