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• When do we know that a project is "done"? What are the end-of-life criteria?
• What are the criteria for a "First Major Release"? How does Dave's proposed Project Readiness fit in?
• What criteria/steps/policies must other releases adhere to?
• Under what circumstances can (or what are the criteria for) a project (to) be moved back to Incubation? to a lab?
• Should all projects be required to start as a lab prior to being proposed for Incubation?
• Should we have subprojects (and fewer toplevel projects)?
• How/when does a project get officially names? (Early → easier to set up repository, Later → marketing committee can be involved, see mailing list for discussion)
• How do we deal with a new project coming in that is already a shipping product for a company?
  • Assuming it would need to pass Dave's proposed Project Readiness
  • It could be a bad look for a company to donate shipping code and then have it wallow in incubation
  • does it come in at the current shipping version ?

Comments

Hart:

I'd like our project lifecycle to satisfy three basic requirements:

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