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Official Spring AI Community Projects

Much like with Spring Cloud and Spring Data, there is a known set of stable community projects that are promoted alongside the main project. These appear on the project page on spring.io and are also incorporated into the reference documentation.
The Spring AI team will decide which community projects will be officially recognized. The goal is to establish a quality bar so that users don’t encounter outdated projects.

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Bill of Materials (BOM) Policy

Based on feedback from previous community project experiences, community projects will not be listed in the Spring AI BOM (bill of materials).
This decision ensures that the Spring AI core team maintains control over compatibility guarantees while still supporting the community ecosystem.

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Requirements for Official Listing

Projects seeking to be listed as official Spring AI Community projects on the Spring AI website and documentation must demonstrate ongoing health and activity.

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Evaluation Criteria

  • Review by the Spring AI team (typically quarterly)
  • Public GitHub activity metrics (commits, issue responses, PR reviews)
Build & Testing
  • Passing CI pipeline with unit and/or integration tests
Documentation
  • Up-to-date project documentation that follows Spring AI’s format and standards
Compatibility
  • Compatibility with the latest Spring AI release
  • Alignment with Spring AI’s architecture, coding standards, and integration patterns
Code quality and structure must meet Spring team standards for potential inclusion in the core project, including:
  • Proper use of Spring abstractions
  • Consistent error handling
  • Alignment with Spring’s programming model

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No Formal Reporting Required

No formal reporting is required from project maintainers beyond what is publicly visible in repositories. The Spring AI team will use these public indicators to determine which community projects to promote.

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Project Lifecycle Management

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Active Projects

Projects that remain active and meet quality standards will continue to be promoted on:
  • Spring AI project page on spring.io
  • Spring AI reference documentation
  • Spring AI community listings

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Inactive Projects

Projects that remain inactive for extended periods (6+ months) or fall below quality standards may be:
  • Removed from official listings
  • Remain in the spring-ai-community organization
  • Potentially become candidates for archival
This ensures that users always find maintained, high-quality projects when browsing official Spring AI Community recommendations.
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