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 Some considerations:
 - Transparent, consistent technical and governance quality bar for [graduation](https://www.cncf.io/projects/graduation-criteria/) from incubation
-- Has users, preferably in production; is a high quality, high-velocity project
+- Has users, preferably in production; is a high quality, high-velocity project (for incubation and graduated projects). Inception level projects are targeted at earlier-stage projects to cultivate a community/technology
 - Has a committed and excited team that appears to understand the challenges ahead and wishes to meet them
 - Has a fundamentally sound design without obvious critical compromises that will inhibit potential widespread adoption
 - Is useful for cloud native deployments & ideally, is architected in a cloud native style