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[RFC] Add partner application process to ECOSYSTEM.md #37689

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Expand Up @@ -14,12 +14,19 @@ Partners are companies that are significantly invested in React Native and demon

Partners think of React Native as a product; they understand the trade offs that the project makes as well as future plans and goals. Together we shape the vision for React Native to make it the best way to build applications.

Baseline responsibilities of partners include:
* Attending monthly meeting
* Contributing to the release process. Examples include being a [community releaser](https://reactnative.dev/contributing/release-roles-responsibilities#release-role-2-community-releaser), testing new releases, technical support for release issues.
* Engage on the core contributor Discord
### Application process
To become a React Native partner, an existing partner needs to refer and champion your application. Partners will undergo a 3 month incubating period, after which Partners will vote to convert to full membership.
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an existing partner needs to refer and champion your application

I don't think this aspect was discussed/mentioned during the meeting?

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I do recall us talking about partners referring others, what are your concerns around this? Feel free to message the group about this too


Our current partners and other areas of ownership:
Partnership is not a status symbol, it is a commitment to invest significant resources into improving React Native.

Maintaining partner status requires consistently meeting the baseline responsibilities, including:
* Attending monthly meeting.
* Contributing to the release process.
* Engaging in the core contributor Discord.
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Maintaining partner status requires consistently meeting the baseline responsibilities, including:
* Attending monthly meeting.
* Contributing to the release process.
* Engaging in the core contributor Discord.
Maintaining partner status requires consistently meeting the baseline responsibilities, including:
* Attending monthly meeting.
* Contributing to the release process.
* Engaging in the core contributor Discord.
* Meaningfully contribute to the ecosystem and the broader community

since most existing partners do very important things (ex IR and Callstack and Expo+SWM doing the confs, Wix maintaining their libs) for the broader community it might be worth to mention? Like more partners do support the broader community than the ones contributing to the release process, so might be worth to have some sort of mention there for perspective partners to consider themselves "reaching the bar" for applying

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I agree with @kelset. Maybe not all partners should contribute to the release process but have meaningful contributions to the ecosystem. I think a good idea is to add examples of meaningful contributions (doesn't need to be concrete) as the definition is very vague. We mentioned in the meeting that it could be code contributions to core and popular libraries but also conferences and podcasts.

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Great points. I didn't change any of these here though, just changed the formatting, so let's followup to up if we want to change the baseline responsibilities.


Examples of contributing to the release include being a [community releaser](https://reactnative.dev/contributing/release-roles-responsibilities#release-role-2-community-releaser), testing new releases, and technical support for release issues.
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Not totally related to this doc but I think is a good idea to clarify in the release role doc that becoming part of the release crew is a multi month commitment until the baton is passed to the next crew. Additionally, the release crew is responsible for all active releases in the support window, not just the upcoming one.

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facebook/react-native-website#3767


### Current partners:
* **[Coinbase](https://www.coinbase.com/):** Publishes [posts](https://blog.coinbase.com/tagged/react-native) advocating React Native usage. Supports `@react-native-community/datetimepicker` and other community modules to migrate to the new architecture. Supports releases in testing and feedback.
* **[Callstack](https://callstack.com/):** Maintains the [React Native CLI](https://github.com/react-native-community/react-native-cli) and [other community libraries](https://github.com/callstack), organizes [React Native EU](https://react-native.eu/) and hosts [The React Native Show podcast](https://www.callstack.com/podcast-react-native-show)
* **[Expo](https://expo.dev/):** Builds [Expo Go and SDK](https://github.com/expo/expo), [Snack](https://snack.expo.dev/), and [Expo Application Services](https://expo.dev/eas). Maintains [React Native Directory](https://reactnative.directory/), stewards [React Navigation](https://reactnavigation.org/) along with other partners.
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* **[Software Mansion](https://swmansion.com/):** Maintain core infrastructure including JSC, Animated, and other popular third-party plugins and organizes [App.js Conf](https://appjs.co/)
* **[Wix.com](https://wix.engineering/open-source):** Maintains a variety of React Native open source projects ([see all](https://github.com/orgs/wix/repositories?q=react-native)), including: [Detox](https://wix.github.io/Detox/) end-to-end testing library for React Native apps, [RN UILib](https://wix.github.io/react-native-ui-lib/), [RN Navigation](https://wix.github.io/react-native-navigation/), [RN Calendars](https://wix.github.io/react-native-calendars/) and [RN Notifications](https://github.com/wix/react-native-notifications).

This list may fluctuate in response to newcomers who meet our partner definition. In terms of open source work, pull requests from partners are commonly prioritized. When you are contributing to React Native, you'll most likely meet somebody who works at one of the partner companies and who is a core contributor:
### Incubating partners:
* There are no current incubating partners.

When you are contributing to React Native, you'll most likely meet somebody who works at one of the partner companies and who is a core contributor.
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nit: I'm not sure I understand why this phrase is here/what purpose it serves; is it to help perspective partners understand how they can find someone to champion them? 🤔

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This was there before; it feeds to the next section about core contributors and delineates the difference between Partner (company) and Contributor (individual).


## Core Contributors

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