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title: Open UI Staging Process

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# 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
