Those guidelines should serve as guidance for all contributors of the HBP Medical Informatics Platform, from core platform developers, service developers as well as developers and scientists providing new algorithms, data pipelines or visualisation components.
The European Commission uses the concept of Technical Readiness Level to evaluate the quality and fitness of our contributions. One core idea of this guide is to provide concrete actions and checks to help each component to progress towards the highest level of maturity.
Those actions should be easy to follow as they are based on the best practices from software industry, and for the most part require no investment in infrastructure and tools as we can use free tooling and cloud services available for open-source developers.