Re: Incubator graduation requirements

Hi Bruce,

There's a Graduation Criteria [1] page on the Incubator cwiki that covers the six core areas the IPMC evaluates: community diversity, governance, releases and IP compliance, branding, reporting, and vendor neutrality. It includes a summary checklist table that maps each area to concrete evidence of readiness.

There's also a companion Graduation Readiness [3] page with more practical guidance drawn from real graduation discussions.

There is also the ASF maturity Model [4] to help project consider if they are ready.

That said, there is already tooling for this kind of automated assessment. The IPMC MCP [3]  has a graduation_readiness tool that pulls together community health, release history, reporting compliance, and other signals for any given podling. It might be a useful reference or starting point for your friend's project.

Thanks,
Justin

1. https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/INCUBATOR/Graduation+Criteria
2. https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/INCUBATOR/Graduation+Readiness
3. https://github.com/justinmclean/IncubatorMCP
4. https://community.apache.org/apache-way/apache-project-maturity-model.html