Shane, Not exactly what you asked, but when a project starts incubation, I think it is helpful to preview the incubation process. As a mentor I done this for a couple of podlings (Hop and Baremaps) [1].
I think it’s important to do this via an online meeting, not offline via email. This allows the mentors and initial committers to meet each other, build trust, and makes it easier to ask dumb questions. At the start of incubation, I recommend that the project focuses on making a first release, that it will require collaboration on the dev list, give them an idea of what the voting process for that release will look like, and emphasize that it will be far from perfect. Julian [1] https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/what-to-expect-when-youre-incubating/248315316 > On Mar 31, 2025, at 7:04 AM, Shane Curcuru <a...@shanecurcuru.org> wrote: > > When someone asks you questions like "should our project X come to the ASF", > how - specifically - do *you* start advising them? > > While some advice may be personal or answers to someone's actual questions, > I'm most interested in general details around the incubation process you > share with newcomers: > > - What specific URLs do you point newcomers to? > > - How do you explain those URLs, and why did you choose those? > > - Are there any bullet points or major topics you always cover, to make sure > a newcomer thinking about coming to the ASF also thinks about all the steps > or aspects that incubation requires? > > I know we've had people build friction logs for newcomers at a couple of > places across the ASF in the past: descriptions of specific steps that were > hard, or information that wasn't clear for someone new. Here, I'm asking for > what we as IPMC folks who write to people when they first ask one of us "what > is incubation, anyway, and do I want to do it?" > > If anyone has a standard boilerplate email or the like they share with people > asking, I'd love to see those as well (and can help organize them somewhere > later, once I learn the incubator website again). > > Thanks! > > -- > - Shane > Member > The Apache Software Foundation > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org >
