Introduction, Principles & Recommendations 

Goals and Approaches

How do we accurately and comprehensively represent the stages of a Hyperledger project's lifecycle in order to make accurate assessments about a project's health and make appropriate decisions on its future trajectory?

Broadly, there are two approaches we can take:

  1. Augment the current project lifecycle with a set of review labels (each associated with a review criteria), and rename or split/merge states as appropriate, so that the process and criteria for each state transition is clear and unambiguous.
  2. Use a badging system whereby each project will be issued a badge (objectively) attesting to a certain set of attributes or criteria that the project is deemed to have met. Each stage in the lifecycle will then be represented by a set of badges, and stage transition criteria will clearly state what badges are needed for a project to progress to the next stage in its life.

(For reference and links, see the Badging/Lifecycle Task Force Issue in the Hyperledger TOC repo.)

Comparison of the Hyperledger and Linux Foundation Networking Lifecycles

As mentioned in the task force proposal, it is instructive to view the Hyperledger project lifecycle with the Linux Foundation Networking project lifecycle (see the "Project State Transitions" section for the latter).

                     

Observations/questions:

Comparisons:

What Hyperledger can/should borrow from the LFN lifecycle:

Recap of Earlier (2020-21) Discussion and Determinations on Badging

Proposals to assign badges to Hyperledger projects were discussed by the TSC in 2020-21, and recommendations were made.

Badges and the criteria for a project to acquire them were described in an HL Wiki page. Here is the list:

The process of acquiring badges was also described in an HL Wiki page. It was recommended that the maintainers self-certify their projects for a given badge, after which there could be an open discussion among Hyperledger contributors and that project's maintainers. Any disagreements would come up before the TOC, which would rule on the appropriateness of the certification (i.e., allow the badge to be retained or have it revoked.) Some badges would have renewal requirements (depending on the continual compliance of the project with the badge's criteria) whereas others could be used in perpetuity.

Discussion/Recommendations

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Time to complete


Leader


Initial participant list


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References

https://youtu.be/EMdGhIKWYKk Meeting 10 AUG 2023

https://youtu.be/R6ci1hlI6-g 18 AUG 2023