I'm relatively new at mentoring, and I'm writing to solicit advice from older hands on the early phases of community construction.
I'm looking at a podling with 7 initial contributors, running since Nov 2010. No new contributors have been voted in, or even discussed. Or even seen, I think, on the horizon. On the positive side, operations are very satisfactory in terms of on-list discussion, releases, etc. Now, an optimist might say that 7 is enough to run a TLP, so what's to worry? A pessimist might say that we can't/shouldn't hatch out a podling with no track record of recruiting and assimilating new people. (I haven't discussed this with my fellow mentors; I decided that this should be an 'on-list' conversation of the incubator.) I did send along a little email 'zetz' about the recruiting new people. The other thing an optimist might think is that, at least to begin with, 'code calls forth community' -- wider adoption of the code will naturally attract flies. Anyhow, what do other think? Should mentors be pushing early and often on this subject, or is it reasonable wait for, oh, 18 months and a few releases before getting pushy? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
