02 — Capability · BC-1280.20
Project Stewardship
Maintain the company's published projects well — responsive to issues, clear in governance, safe to depend on — because a neglected repository costs more trust than never publishing it.
- Open Source Maintenance
- Project Governance
- Maintainer Program
In scope
- Maintainer staffing and response commitments
- Project governance and decision-making models
- Security handling and release practice for public projects
- Archiving projects responsibly
Out of scope
- Release engineering of the commercial product (see BC-1220)
Decomposes into · 4
- BC-1280.20.10Maintainer OperationsFund and staff maintainers, set issue and pull request response expectations and meet them.
- BC-1280.20.20Project GovernancePublish how decisions are made, who can merge and how someone outside the company earns that right.
- BC-1280.20.30Public Project SecurityHandle vulnerability reports, signed releases and dependency updates for public projects on the same footing as the product.
- BC-1280.20.40Project Sunset & ArchivalRetire projects deliberately — announce, hand over or archive — rather than letting them decay in public.