# Open UI Staging Process

Audience:

- Engineering / Framework
- FastDNA
- Fluent
- Primer
- Polaris
- Design
- FastDNA
- Fluent
- Primer
- Polaris
- Platforms
- Edge Chromium
- Google Chromium

### Stages

Terms:
- "party" A participant in Open UI (i.e. representative for a design system or framework)

Each stage's deliverables include and add to the previous stages.

- 0 Identified
- Research
- Does not need concensus
- Descriptive only (no prescription, no original content)

- 1 Proposed
- Deliverable: Spec
- Consensus Requirement: The proposing party only
- Implementaitons: Is in an not yet validated state

- 2 Confirmed [Fluent UI, FAST-DNA, Material UI]
- Deliverable: Written confirmation
- Requires 2 parties to agree to spec
- Requires 2 parties to implement in their framework

- 3 Implemented
- Many majority of participants/board
- Widely accepted
- Frameworks
- Platform, if applicable
- Usefulness proven