A mature open source project may be governed under an open source foundation which usually gives it a charter https://github.com/cncf/foundation/blob/main/chart

A mature open source project may be governed under an open source foundation which usually gives it a charter https://github.com/cncf/foundation/blob/main/charter.md#3-values https://github.com/cncf/foundation/blob/main/charter.md#3-va... ... and/or set of values: https://kubernetes.io/community/values/ https://kubernetes.io/community/values/ There's also a lot of open source guides here https://todogroup.org/resources/guides/ https://todogroup.org/resources/guides/ that may help you if you're looking at building mature open source projects.