The contractor will develop a working concept based on the following criteria:

- Working with participating FOSS infrastructure projects to identify and make an inventory of known issues caused by under-maintenance, including but may not be limited to:

- Known bugs or other problems with the codebase that haven"t been addressed due to lack of capacity

- Significant technical debt that is caused by lack of maintenance resources

- Complexity in the codebase that causes a barrier to long-term maintenance or a threat to the project"s security posture

- Missing best practices or structures that could be implemented to enable long term secure maintenance practices.

- Develop a roadmap and a work plan to help the projects prioritize and address the known issues that have been identified.

- Provided additional capacity, knowledge and code contributions for the projects as needed through:

- Providing re-engineering, re-coding, refactoring or removing code services;

- Fixing known bugs;

- as well as help implementing best practices or standards for future ease of maintenance, such as badge programs or certifications.

The contractor will develop a working concept based on the following criteria:

- Working with participating FOSS infrastructure projects to identify and make an inventory of known issues caused by under-maintenance, including but may not be limited to:

- Known bugs or other problems with the codebase that haven"t been addressed due to lack of capacity

- Significant technical debt that is caused by lack of maintenance resources

- Complexity in the codebase that causes a barrier to long-term maintenance or a threat to the project"s security posture

- Missing best practices or structures that could be implemented to enable long term secure maintenance practices.

- Develop a roadmap and a work plan to help the projects prioritize and address the known issues that have been identified.

- Provided additional capacity, knowledge and code contributions for the projects as needed through:

- Providing re-engineering, re-coding, refactoring or removing code services;

- Fixing known bugs;

- as well as help implementing best practices or standards for future ease of maintenance, such as badge programs or certifications.