Hi, As we wrap up the year, I want to take a moment to reflect on this month’s mentor topic.
Incubation usually doesn’t depend on big, dramatic decisions. More often, progress or recovery comes from small mentor actions at the right time, like nudging someone to move a decision to the dev list, reminding them about releases, encouraging new committers, or helping a podling slow down when needed. As mentors, we might not see the results of these moments right away, but over time, they help build stronger communities. Here are a few questions to help us get started: - Looking back over the year, was there a small mentor action that had an outsized impact on a podling? - Any examples where not intervening turned out to be the right call? - What’s something you’ve learned this year that you’ll carry into mentoring next year? - Were there any patterns you noticed across multiple podlings that mentors should watch for earlier? Feel free to share your reflections, lessons learned, patterns you’ve noticed, successes, course corrections, or even things that didn’t go as planned. Kind regards, Justin --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
