Formal and informal guidelines for getting the most out of the incubator...and exiting in a timely manner.

Previous advice:

GPG/PGP Key Signing:

Legal

(these should be done before code comes into the incubator, but I'm including them for completeness)

Meritocracy / Community

Demonstrate an active and diverse development community
No single organization supplies more than 50% of the active committers (must be at least 3 independent committers)
The above implies that new committers are admitted according to ASF practices
ASF style voting has been adopted and is standard practice
Demonstrate ability to tolerate and resolve conflict within the community.
Release plans are developed and executed in public by the community. ** (requriment on minimum number of such releases?) ** Note: incubator projects are not permitted to issue an official Release. Test snapshots (however good the quality) and Release plans are OK.
Engagement by the incubated community with the other ASF communities, particularly infrastructure@ (this reflects my personal bias that projects should pay an infrastructure "tax").
Incubator PMC has voted for graduation
Destination PMC, or ASF Board for a TLP, has voted for final acceptance