https://monorepo.tools/ <- Would be great for pants to be in there

It would, although that's js; so we have some work to do 1st.

They don't say anywhere that JS support is a criterion for inclusion. They just say "We chose these tools because of their usage or recognition in the Web development community." I think the way to (potentially) get in is for some web developers who use Pants to open an issue there and point out that (a) Pants is being used by webdev community and (b) Pants' fit on that feature chart is on par with or superior to Bazel's. They can decide what to do with that new knowledge, but I don't think we need to preemptively rule out Pants' eligibility for consideration.

It’s created by the folks behind https://github.com/nrwl/nx and the contributors listed at the bottom of the page are contributors from the various projects.

b. Is decidedly not satisfied until we ship js support afaict @busy-vase-39202 I was looking at the matrix, and when they say "workspace" "project" or "package" they are always referring to js from what I read. So this site assumes js is your world, they don't even have to bother to qualify things afaict.