Status: Currently in draft and non-binding.
The Argo community continues to grow dramatically – adding new users, new contributors, and new capabilities. The Argo Conformance Program creates incentives and requriements designed to help the ecosystem grow in a sustainable and user-friendly way. As a diverse set of tools grows around Argo, users need to know when they can they can trust these tools to work together and in a predictable way.
When users use an Argo certified offering they should be able to trust that offering to work with the open source versions of Argo and that configuration designed for Argo will always work.
Software conformance ensures predictability and helps protect the Argo brand.
- Guarantee a consistent and reliable user experience and API compatibility
- Protect the Argo brand
- Ensure contributions from commercial partners
- Grow and strengthen the Argo community
In addition to giving users confidence and protecting the Argo community certified offerings may
- Advertise compliance and certification
- Use Argo logo and branding in marketing materials
- Exposure to community