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LF AI & Data Project Incubation Levels

Sandbox

  • Any project that intends to join LF AI & Data Incubation in the future and wishes to lay the foundations for that.
  • New projects that are designed to extend one or more LF AI & Data projects with functionality or interoperability libraries.
  • Independent projects that fit the LF AI & Data mission and provide the potential for a novel approach to existing functional areas (or are an attempt to meet an unfulfilled need).

Incubation

Sandbox requirements plus:

  • Have 2+ organizations actively contributing to the project.
  • Have a defined Technical Steering Committee (TSC) with a chairperson identified, with open and transparent communication.
  • Have a sponsor who is an existing LF AI & Data member.
  • Have at least 300 stars on GitHub.
  • Have achieved and maintained a Core Infrastructure Initiative ​Best Practices Silver Badge​.
  • Have the affirmative vote of the TAC.

Graduated

Sandbox and Incubation requirements plus:
  • Have a healthy number of code contributions coming from at least five organizations.
  • Have reached a minimum of 1000 stars on GH.
  • Have achieved and maintained a Core Infrastructure Initiative ​Best Practices Gold Badge​.
  • Have demonstrated a substantial ongoing flow of commits and merged contributions for the past 12 months.
  • Receive the affirmative vote of two-thirds of the TAC and the affirmative vote of the Governing Board.
  • Have completed at least one collaboration with another LF AI & Data hosted project
  • Have a technical lead appointed for representation of the project on the LF AI & Data TAC