Principle: Contributions must be aligned with the purpose of FINOS #15
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I think this basically boils down to the contribution must be something we think will be adopted - do we want to formalise that e.g. a statement of interest from a member organisation that isn't the contributor org? |
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Hi - addressing this principal and also #16 - I think the wording in the incubation guidelines is quite neat: The contributed code or idea has the potential to be useful to end users and organizations in the financial industry Perhaps there are some things we can say about that "potential" - does it solve a common problem, will it be easy to adopt, does it interoperate with open and/or de-facto standard technologies/protocols, does it offer good documentation and deployment options, what constraints does it impose.... we can perhaps judge some of these technical criteria more objectively. What actually ends up getting adopted.... will be harder to predict :-) Of course if a project already has an active community of users or even contributers outside the contributing organisation, then the potential for usefulness answers itself. On reflection, I do think there is a distinction between usefulness/adoption/interest and alignment more generally with the purpose of FINOS. Real-world usefulness is one element of alignment but I think there are others - community/collaboration being one (which relates to #21) as well as the area of focus - an obvious example dev-ops offerings might not belong in FINOS. Is it fair to say we'd be more interested in solutions that are higher up the stack and tend to be more business-focused in nature? |
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Why? The Purpose of FINOS is defined as follows:
It is a key statement which captures the scope of the organisation. Alignment with this purpose is the first step towards building a cohesive and relevant ecosystem.
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