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When considering projects that are proposed for incubation to Hyperledger, the TSC will consider the following items: codebase, maintainers, community, sponsors, legal, and overlap with existing projects.
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- The project should have multiple maintainers. These maintainers need not be from different companies; however, having maintainers from different companies is seen as a positive sign. Proposals with only one maintainer have been rejected by prior TSCs.
- The project should have demonstrable examples of POC/production uses publicly available.
- The project should have the backing of more than one organization/individuals (i.e., the project proposers should be able to demonstrate significant, long term contribution in codebase).
Community
- TSC more likely to accept projects that have contributors familiar with open source practices.
Sponsors
- Sponsors are advocates for the project. There should be more than one sponsor, and they should be from different organizations. They may or may not be committing resources to the project.
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