FAST Project Re-alignment HLD

[rajsite]

Pull Request

🤨 Rationale

HLD for how Nimble will address the FAST project re-alignment.

See #2207
See microsoft/fast#6955
AzDo Work Item 2842865

✅ Checklist

• I have updated the project documentation to reflect my changes or determined no changes are needed.

[jattasNI]

High level direction seems great, you have my approval to start implementing if you want to. Gonna take one more look once my comments are addressed so not approving the PR just yet.

[rajsite]

@jattasNI PR is ready for another look

[jattasNI]

I don't think that answering this needs to block completion of the HLD / feature, we can decide it once the fork is set up and published.

My take right now: I'm not opposed to publicizing it. But the questions I would ask as a potential external consumer are things like "what is your maintenance plan?", "how much new investment will this receive?", and "will you accept my contributions?". While we have hopeful answers to those, we might want to establish some kind of track record (e.g. a couple months of Renovate updates or bug fixes) before we convince anyone to use this.

[rajsite]

Agreed, and I think the "Update top-level README / CONTRIBUTING to cover intentions of the repo / fork:" section describes high-level guidelines that should answer those questions and we can get the language precise in PR and decide whether to share in discord after "some time" in production.