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Outbound Checklists

Our outbound review checklists outlines our process of approving CMS-developed software to be released as open source:

  1. Assess benefits and risks of open sourcing
  2. Code review
  3. Code analysis using open source tools
  4. Repository hygiene
  5. Metadata stored in code.json
  6. Repository is ready to be public!
Tier Checklist Link
Tier 1 Checklist
Tier 2 Checklist
Tier 3 Checklist
Tier 4 Checklist

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