Contribution Review Checklist for Balans

Next step

• Date of last action: 2026-01-05
• what's next in the process: project announcement

General

• Project Description: Bandit-based Adaptive Large-Neighborhood Search for MIP in Python
• Contributor: Serdar Kadioglu (https://github.com/skadio)
• Contact Date: 2026-01-03
• Handler: Stefan Vigerske
• Reviewer: Stefan Vigerske
• Sent instructions: 2026-01-05

Legal

• Received CSRO: yes (2026-01-03)
• Received DOL: yes (2026-01-03)
• OSI-approved license: yes (Apache 2.0)

Classification

• Classified (Level 1-5): 5

Code and Documentation

• README/LICENSE files: yes (2026-01-05)
• Project Roadmap (Level 1 only): -- (2026-01-05)
• AUTHORS/INSTALL files (Level 2 and above): CODEOWNERS and INSTALL (2026-01-05)
• Code builds (Level 2 and above): yes (2026-01-05)
• Documentation (Level 3 and above): README and paper (2026-01-05)
• Unit test (Level 4 and above): yes (2026-01-05)
• Project binaries (Level 5): yes (2026-01-05)

Accepted

• (Yes/No): Yes (2026-01-05)

Establishing Project

• PM named: Serdar Kadioglu (@skadio) (2026-01-05)
• PM familiar with Guidelines and Procedures for Project Management: yes (2026-01-03)
  • Legal issues
  • Tracking contributions
  • Responding to bugs
  • Using SVN
  • Using Trac
  • Setting up a static Web page
  • Standard practices (versioning and release, build procedures)
• Parameters for project creation mailed to submission manager:

   # SVNPROJ  : the project's name in the SVN repository
   # PROJDESC : short project description
   # PM       : space separated list of project manager COIN-OR id's
   # PM_EMAIL : email address of the PM managing the mailing lists

• PM subscribed to mailing list: no (2026-01-05)

• Code imported: coin-or/balans (2026-01-05)

  • To move a project to the COIN-OR space at GitHub, first make the current owner a member of the COIN-OR organization (https://github.com/orgs/coin-or/people). Next, temporarily enable "Repository Creation" permissions at https://github.com/organizations/coin-or/settings/member_privileges

• PM given write access: admin access (2026-01-05)

• Trac page set up: no (2026-01-05)

• XML page (projDesc.xml, see documentation in the file itself, which can be copied and adapted from here) set up: no, waiting for Matt to auto-generate this (2026-01-05)

• Project listed on projects list, with link to XML file, should happen automatically: no, waiting for Matt to auto-generate this (2026-01-05)

• Project announcement: suggested PM to do this (2026-01-06)

• PM invited for full membership of COIN-OR (contact coin secretary): notified secretary (2026-01-06)

• Moved this page to ArchivedChecklists: yes (2026-01-06)