Here's another starter installment for the "Incubator Guidelines
Documentation" project Noel posted at
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-general/200512.mbox/[EMAIL
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Several times during derby's incubation I felt disoriented because while
there's a lot of info on the incubator site, I didn't seem to always
find what I needed as a completely new podling committer.
Below is a first shot at providing a succinct Getting Started that
points complete newbies to resources already on the incubator site and
fills in a few holes.
For those of you currently in incubation, does this help? Or would it
have helped when you first started. :-) What more would help?
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Getting Started: Podling Committer
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Welcome! Your general committer role is described at
http://incubator.apache.org/incubation/Roles_and_Responsibilities.html#Committers
, but here's more information to help you get started.
(1) Mailing lists
- Subscribe to the user, dev, and commit lists for your project.
- Become aware of what else is going on in the Incubator by
subscribing to the general@incubator.apache.org list described at
http://incubator.apache.org/howtoparticipate.html#Mailing+lists
- Become aware of what else is going on at the ASF by
subscribing to the Apache-wide lists described at
http://incubator.apache.org/learn/mailing-lists.html
(Note: we should add [EMAIL PROTECTED] to this list.)
(2) Project web site
+ How to get your project web site going is documented at
http://incubator.apache.org/howtoparticipate.html#Project+Website+Howto
+ Post any questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(3) Committer Resources
+ Browse the pages at http://www.apache.org/dev/ often.
+ Subscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED], then raise awareness
on your project on what goes on behind the scenes.
Be proactive about responding to infrastructure issues on your
project mailing lists. Does the web server seem to be down? Is
Jira or Subversion down? Check the status at
http://monitoring.apache.org/status/ and report back to your list.
(4) Podling PMC (PPMC)
If you are a member of your PPMC, become familiar with the
Incubation Policy at
http://incubator.apache.org/incubation/Incubation_Policy.html .
You'll likely participate in the following:
+ Update the podling status on the Incubator site:
http://incubator.apache.org/guides/website.html#Edit+your+project+status+report
+ Add new committers to your project:
http://incubator.apache.org/learn/newcommitters.html
+ Make sure that a quarterly report is submitted when the
Incubator PMC Chair requests it.
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end draft
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OK, this is pretty thin so far, but should give the idea of what I'm
shooting for.
I think this information should go in one of these places:
http://incubator.apache.org/learn/
http://incubator.apache.org/guides/
It shouldn't be buried deep in a subpage, nor should it be on a page
that is already busy. http://incubator.apache.org/howtoparticipate.html
is borderline too busy and covers more than this one role.
comments? feedback?
thanks,
-jean
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