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Official JASIG project governed by an elected steering committee and supported by a community of users and developers

The JA-SIG Incubation Process is holistically the activities and mechanism whereby open source software projects are proposed, incubated, evaluated, progressed, and become full-fledged JA-SIG sponsored projects.  The incubation process may also be applied to new software contributions related to existing sponsored projects.  Software that relates to an existing project is transferred to the existing project steering committee for incubation and governance.

The Incubation Working Group (Incubation WG) are the people who oversee this process. (Also known as IWG).  The IWG is also responsible for periodic review of Unsponsored Contributions.
~susan.bramhall@yale.edu to be initial chair of IWG

Proposal submitted to IWG containing basic information specified below.  IWG will determine whether the candidate will proceed to Proposed Project (Preincubation), Incubating Project, Unsponsored Contribution, or to an existing project steering committee for further consideration.  A Candidate Proposal can also be declined by the IWG and

A proposal for a new project to be developed under the auspices of JASIG.

Preincubation is the status of a Proposed Project until it is either accepted for Incubation by the IWG or is terminated.

Software to be incubated, progressing from Candidate Project status through Incubated Project status and ideally emerging as a fully-fledged Sponsored Project. A Project may also have a Preincubation status prior to Candidate status.

The Mentor is a particular person assigned by the Incubation Working Group to shepherd a candidate project through incubation

The JA-SIG Board leads JA-SIG, overseeing and supporting the Working Group and the process they execute

In some cases, software may be contributed without a sponsoring project. Such a contribution may exist indefinitely without becoming a Sponsored Project. Periodic review of unsponsored contributions is the responsibility of the Incubation WG.  Software related to a Sponsored Project also may end up in as an Unsponsored Contribution when the Project steering committee decides it is not a viable component.

An area in svn and wiki space where project related experimental work is developed. The IWG does not provide oversight or governance to the sandbox area.