[FINOS Community] New FINOS Lifecycle and Project Health Requirements

['Eddie Knight' via FINOS General Community List]

FINOS Community,

After more than a year of research and debate among members of the Technical Oversight Committee (TOC), the Governing Board, and FINOS staff, we have officially published the revised FINOS Project Lifecycle. 

We owe a huge thanks to everyone involved in bringing this to fruition. A documented lifecycle with data-driven metrics is essential to maintain a healthy project ecosystem and provide a clear path for project evolution. You can find all the details and implications of this change in the announcement article on the FINOS blog.

If you are a project maintainer, please familiarize yourself with the new lifecycle, as new maintenance requirements are now in effect. You'll also hear from us more soon, as a TOC-led health check process is coming as part of this update.

Following this change, the FINOS team and the TOC are working to tightly align project benefits such as infrastructure and marketing with these specific lifecycle stages. Projects will receive go-to-community support based on their maturity, which creates better access to benefits and a clear, structural incentive path to level up.

If you have questions about how this impacts your work or the open-source projects you rely on, reach out to us at t...@lists.finos.org.

I hope to see you in Toronto next month!

Cheers,

Eddie Knight
Technical Oversight Committee

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[Gabriele Columbro]

I cannot overstate how important this update is. It not only streamlines and clarifies our contribution and maintenance process but also raises the bar for project expectations, reflecting a community that is ever more mature and projects routinely leveraged in production environments.

A huge thank you to the TOC for leading the charge here.

Echoing the calls to action: 

• +FINOS Maintainers: please familiarize yourselves with the requirements of each stage, as the TOC and FINOS teams will enforce them. The good news is that there are plenty of incentives to move through the lifecycle as the blast radius of our platforms (events, emails, social) continues to grow. 
  
  
• +FINOS members (Private) and other adopters: become familiar with the meaning and implications of each stage, as we will realign the projects in our landscape to easily signal the maturity of each project at a glance. 
  

Thanks everyone involved, let's get FINOS projects to their next level 🚀

Gab

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