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Closes #575

The CNCF TOC accepted Hive Commons into the Sandbox on 2026-10-28. The docs site's community intro page still pointed readers to the Sandbox "application". This is the page that introduces the project family, so it should state the current status and link to the vote and the onboarding issue.

Changes:

• docs/content/community/what-is-hive-commons.md: one sentence after the intro saying Hive Commons is a CNCF Sandbox project. It links to the TOC vote and to onboarding. The "Where next" bullet now points to onboarding instead of the application.
• changelog.d/changed-575-cncf-sandbox-status.md: changelog fragment.

Claim evidence

• "Hive Commons is a CNCF Sandbox project" / "TOC voted to accept it in October 2026": cncf/sandbox#516 closed as completed on 2026-10-28T20:43:58Z with labels gitvote/passed and gitvote/closed. CNCF automation commented on it: "The Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) vote has been completed successfully".
• "onboarding is tracked in [PROJECT ONBOARDING] Hive Commons cncf/sandbox#545": cncf/sandbox#545, "[PROJECT ONBOARDING] Hive Commons", is open and references 🐛 fix: floor transitive re2js at 2.8.7 via override #516.
• The project already says this in public: the hivecommons/hive README (v5, line 149) says "Hive is a CNCF sandbox project". A maintainer added that line in 📖 docs: README - CNCF sandbox project, restore Code of Conduct link hive#15100 on 2026-10-28.

No compliance or certification claim is made, and no roadmap commitment is added.

Deliberately not changed (needs a human)

• LF trademark footer. Onboarding item "Ensure the LF footer is on your website" in [PROJECT ONBOARDING] Hive Commons cncf/sandbox#545 is unchecked. That is legal text, so it is filed as a separate needs-decision issue.
• join-hive-commons.md. The page does not yet say how a project joining Hive Commons fits CNCF IP and trademark terms. That is a governance question for maintainers.

Validation

• npx markdownlint-cli2 on both files: 0 issues.
• npx vitest run scripts/changelog-fragments.test.ts: 7 tests passed.
• npm run check-links: no broken internal links (437 links).
• Tests that reference this page (7 files, 118 tests): all passed.

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Looks correct to me.

Checked against main: the only remaining reference to the Sandbox application (cncf/sandbox#516) in docs/content is the "Where next" bullet at docs/content/community/what-is-hive-commons.md:95, and this PR rewrites it to the onboarding issue, so the page is internally consistent after the change. The changelog fragment name follows the <category>-<issue>-<slug>.md form the repo's fragment test expects. No code paths are touched.

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