I'm not really involved in this whole process of a group becoming official, but I'm knowing from other games that new projects are thriving in the beginning and then losing their initial spark and somewhat drying down.
Maybe here 3 months for the process is too long, I'm not knowing much about this here. But I'm thinking that 1 month maybe is not enough. A middle ground of 2 months perhaps?
And when a project was being around before without trying this whole official thing then maybe considering that time already and then shorten down for those the whole process to 1 month?
I'm really liking the idea of activity checks for seeing when some project is not anymore that much taken care of, and they were losing their status. And maybe having a separate process for those again trying?
Just some cents from me.