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The project produces Open Source software, for distribution to the public at no charge.

The project’s code is easily discoverable and publicly accessible.

The code can be built in a reproducible way using widely available standard tools.

The full history of the project’s code is available via a source code control system, in a way that allows any released version to be recreated.

The provenance of each line of code is established via the source code control system, in a reliable way based on strong authentication of the committer. When third-party contributions are committed, commit messages provide reliable information about the code provenance.

The code is released under the Apache License, version 2._0.

Libraries that are mandatory dependencies of the project’s code do not create more restrictions than the Apache License does.

The libraries mentioned in LC20 are available as Open Source software.

Committers are bound by an Individual Contributor Agreement (the "Apache iCLA") that defines which code they are allowed to commit and how they need to identify code that is not their own.

The copyright ownership of everything that the project produces is clearly defined and documented.

Releases consist of source code, distributed using standard and open archive formats that are expected to stay readable in the long term.

Releases are approved by the project’s PMC (see CS10), in order to make them an act of the Foundation.

Releases are signed and/or distributed along with digests that can be reliably used to validate the downloaded archives.

Convenience binaries can be distributed alongside source code but they are not Apache Releases — they are just a convenience provided with no guarantee.

The project is open and honest about the quality of its code. Various levels of quality and maturity for various modules are natural and acceptable as long as they are clearly communicated.

Edward Zhang : do we need maintain the code coverage in README?

Michael Wu: we're trying to involve coverage check result, turn this item to "on going" status.

Hao Chen: Integrated qualiy service like jenkins CI, test report&analyser, code coverage and also clearly shown on project README.

• Integrate Code Coverage: https://coveralls.io/github/apache/incubator-eagle
• Integrated Test Reports and Result Analyser: https://builds.apache.org/job/incubator-eagle-main/

The project puts a very high priority on producing secure software.

The project provides a well-documented channel to report security issues, along with a documented way of responding to them.

The project puts a high priority on backwards compatibility and aims to document any incompatible changes and provide tools and documentation to help users transition to new features.

The project strives to respond to documented bug reports in a timely manner.

The project has a well-known homepage that points to all the information required to operate according to this maturity model.

The community welcomes contributions from anyone who acts in good faith and in a respectful manner and adds value to the project.

Contributions include not only source code, but also documentation, constructive bug reports, constructive discussions, marketing and generally anything that adds value to the project.

The community is meritocratic and over time aims to give more rights and responsibilities to contributors who add value to the project.

Edward : for those contributors who have continuously contributing to Eagle, we may need invite them to be (P)PMC to gain more rights and responsibilities

The way in which contributors can be granted more rights such as commit access or decision power is clearly documented and is the same for all contributors.

Edward : do we need a separate document?

The community operates based on consensus of its members (see CS10) who have decision power. Dictators, benevolent or not, are not welcome in Apache projects.

The project strives to answer user questions in a timely manner.

The project maintains a public list of its contributors who have decision power — the project’s PMC (Project Management Committee) consists of those contributors.

Decisions are made by consensus among PMC members and are documented on the project’s main communications channel. Community opinions are taken into account but the PMC has the final word if needed.

Documented voting rules are used to build consensus when discussion is not sufficient.

In Apache projects, vetoes are only valid for code commits and are justified by a technical explanation, as per the Apache voting rules defined in CS30.

All "important" discussions happen asynchronously in written form on the project’s main communications channel. Offline, face-to-face or private discussions that affect the project are also documented on that channel.

Edward : we still need some face-to-face private discussions to be documented in public channel. I think today people just don't want extra time to document them but for growing community we should do that

The project is independent from any corporate or organizational influence.

Edward : multiple companies have participated in the feature discussion, they have their own needs and we build features based on the same framework

Contributors act as themselves as opposed to representatives of a corporation or organization.

Edward : contributors have communicated with each other about features, they may come from different corporation or organization, but they are representing a corporation or organization