Move Carvel from CNCF Sandbox Project to Incubating

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Below is the template for the application that needs to be filled out in order to move from Sandbox to Incubating project. We should make this a top priority. Carvel is too far advanced to remain as a Sandbox proejct.

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$PROJECT Incubation Application

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This template provides the project with a framework to inform the TOC of their conformance to the Incubation Level Criteria.

Project Repo(s): $URL
Project Site: $URL
Sub-Projects: $LIST
Communication: $SLACK

Project points of contacts: $NAME, $EMAIL

Incubation Criteria Summary for $PROJECT

Adoption Assertion

The project has been adopted by the following organizations in a testing and integration or production capacity:
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Application Process Principles

Suggested

N/A

Required

• Give a presentation and engage with the domain specific TAG(s) to increase awareness
  • This was completed and occurred on DD-MMM-YYYY, and can be discovered at $LINK.

• TAG provides insight/recommendation of the project in the context of the landscape

• All project metadata and resources are vendor-neutral.

• Review and acknowledgement of expectations for Sandbox projects and requirements for moving forward through the CNCF Maturity levels.
• Met during Project's application on DD-MMM-YYYY.

• Due Diligence Review.

Completion of this due diligence document, resolution of concerns raised, and presented for public comment satisifies the Due Diligence Review criteria.

• Additional documentation as appropriate for project type, e.g.: installation documentation, end user documentation, reference implementation and/or code samples.

Governance and Maintainers

Note: this section may be augmented by the completion of a Governance Review from TAG Contributor Strategy.

Suggested

• Clear and discoverable project governance documentation.

• Governance has continuously been iterated upon by the project as a result of their experience applying it, with the governance history demonstrating evolution of maturity alongside the project's maturity evolution.

• Governance is up to date with actual project activities, including any meetings, elections, leadership, or approval processes.

• Governance clearly documents vendor-neutrality of project direction.

• Document how the project makes decisions on leadership, contribution acceptance, requests to the CNCF, and changes to governance or project goals.

• Document how role, function-based members, or sub-teams are assigned, onboarded, and removed for specific teams (example: Security Response Committee).

• Document a complete maintainer lifecycle process (including roles, onboarding, offboarding, and emeritus status).

• Demonstrate usage of the maintainer lifecycle with outcomes, either through the addition or replacement of maintainers as project events have required.

• If the project has subprojects: subproject leadership, contribution, maturity status documented, including add/remove process.

Required

• Document complete list of current maintainers, including names, contact information, domain of responsibility, and affiliation.

• A number of active maintainers which is appropriate to the size and scope of the project.

• Code and Doc ownership in Github and elsewhere matches documented governance roles.

• Document agreement that project will adopt CNCF Code of Conduct.

• CNCF Code of Conduct is cross-linked from other governance documents.

• All subprojects, if any, are listed.

Contributors and Community

Note: this section may be augmented by the completion of a Governance Review from TAG Contributor Strategy.

Suggested

• Contributor ladder with multiple roles for contributors.

Required

• Clearly defined and discoverable process to submit issues or changes.

• Project must have, and document, at least one public communications channel for users and/or contributors.

• List and document all project communication channels, including subprojects (mail list/slack/etc.). List any non-public communications channels and what their special purpose is.

• Up-to-date public meeting schedulers and/or integration with CNCF calendar.

• Documentation of how to contribute, with increasing detail as the project matures.

• Demonstrate contributor activity and recruitment.

Engineering Principles

Suggested

• Roadmap change process is documented.

• History of regular, quality releases.

Required

• Document project goals and objectives that illustrate the project’s differentiation in the Cloud Native landscape as well as outlines how this project fulfills an outstanding need and/or solves a problem differently.

• Document what the project does, and why it does it - including viable cloud native use cases.

• Document and maintain a public roadmap or other forward looking planning document or tracking mechanism.

• Document overview of project architecture and software design that demonstrates viable cloud native use cases, as part of the project's documentation.

• Document the project's release process.

Security

Note: this section may be augemented by a joint-assessment performed by TAG Security.

Suggested

N/A

Required

• Clearly defined and discoverable process to report security issues.

• Enforcing Access Control Rules to secure the code base against attacks (Example: two factor authentication enforcement, and/or use of ACL tools.)

• Document assignment of security response roles and how reports are handled.

• Document Security Self-Assessment.

• Achieve the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) Best Practices passing badge.

Ecosystem

Suggested

N/A

Required

• Publicly documented list of adopters, which may indicate their adoption level (dev/trialing, prod, etc.)

• Used in appropriate capacity by at least 3 independent + indirect/direct adopters, (these are not required to be in the publicly documented list of adopters)

The project provided the TOC with a list of adopters for verification of use of the project at the level expected, i.e. production use for graduation, dev/test for incubation.

• TOC verification of adopters.

Refer to the Adoption portion of this document.

• Clearly documented integrations and/or compatibility with other CNCF projects as well as non-CNCF projects.

Additional Information

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