# Community and Governance

- **CNCF Mission:**
    
    
    - Promote cloud-native computing ubiquity.
    - Support open-source projects for scalable, resilient, and manageable applications.
- **Project Maturity Levels (CNCF):**
    
    
    - **Sandbox:** Experimentation and community support.
    - **Incubation:** Maturity, traction, and growing community.
    - **Graduated:** Stability, security, and widespread adoption.
- **Crossing the Chasm:**
    
    
    - Transition from **Incubated** to **Graduated**.
    - Indicates maturity, stability, and enterprise readiness.
- **Technical Oversight Committee (TOC):**
    
    
    - Evaluates and oversees CNCF project maturity.
- **Special Interest Group (SIG) / Technical Advisory Group (TAG):**
    
    
    - SIG (formerly TAG) represents community-driven initiatives.
    - TAG differentiates from Kubernetes SIGs.
- **Project Maturity Factors:**
    
    
    - Adoption, change rate, external committers, and adherence to the **CNCF Code of Conduct**.
- **Conflict Resolution:**
    
    
    - Open discussion, followed by voting and consensus. [![crossing-the-chasm[1].png](https://book.tikkle.de/uploads/images/gallery/2024-11/scaled-1680-/crossing-the-chasm1.png)](https://book.tikkle.de/uploads/images/gallery/2024-11/crossing-the-chasm1.png)