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Typically my criteria for "production-ready" is "has been battle-tested in production".

Without any production dog fooding, I consider software (that I write) as "alpha", "beta", or "preview".

Your criteria must be faulty, it shouldn’t be tested in production if it wasn’t already production ready.

I think similarly when considering if I’m willing to deploy something though; if there isn’t a long running sample why would I trust it?