New tool contribution guidelines

What is a new tool?

A new tool example would be Sketch, Axure, Adobe XD, Figma, etc. This is not contribution for add-on Sketch libraries.

Phase 1: Internal trial

Requirements:

Assets

• Component library: parity with Carbon Sketch kit (one theme)
• Component states
• Carbon elements
  • color tokens
  • typestyles 
• Grid template

Documentation

• About the tool (overview, pros and cons)
• Getting started documentation 
• How to use the tool (high level features and organization, etc)

Support

• Dedicated slack channel
• Github repo (or tag on carbon-design-kit repo)

Approval

• Design review
• Open source ready: No (ok to still have assets behind firewall)

Nice-to-haves:

Assets:

• Other themes (G10, G90 G100)
• Carbon elements
  • icons

Phase 2: Public Beta

Requirements

In addition to all the requirements list in Phase 1: internal release

Assets:

• assets added to public carbon-design-kit repo

Website:

Collaborate with the Carbon team to add website pages.

• Add documentation content to "Getting started/Designer/new-tool-tab"
• Direct link to asset downloads (not behind the firewall)
• Marked as beta

Approval

• Open source ready: Yes, 100%

Nice-to-haves:

Assets:

• Other themes (G10, G90 G100)
• Carbon elements
  • icons

Phase 3: GA

In addition to all the requirements list in Phase 1 and 2

Requirements

Assets

• Component library: parity with Carbon Sketch kit (all 4 themes)
  • White
  • Gray 10
  • Gray 90
  • Gray 100
• Carbon elements
  • icons

Nice-to-haves:

• Cloud distribution process