Incubator Field Guides
Incubator Field Guides capture practical lessons learned from real Apache Incubator mailing list discussions.
All Field Guides are: * derived from real Incubator discussions, * anonymised and generalised, * focused on how issues actually arise and are resolved in practice.
They are intended to save mentors, podlings, and IPMC members from having to rediscover the same lessons by reading years of archived email threads.
Field Guide Index
Proposal and Incubation Readiness
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Incubation Readiness — patterns seen when projects are (and are not) ready to enter incubation
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Proposal Discussions — what reviewers actually focus on during proposal threads
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Community Proposals — community formation questions raised during proposal review
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Initial Committer Selection — how early committer choices affect long-term governance
Governance and Naming
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Community Governance — governance issues that surface during incubation
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Edge Cases — uncommon or unexpected situations raised in Incubator discussions
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Naming and Branding — identity and presentation concerns during incubation
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Naming and Trademarks — trademark-related questions raised in practice
Licensing, Provenance, and Releases
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Licensing and Provenance — common licensing and source-origin concerns
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Releases — release-related issues raised outside of formal votes
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Release Review Issues — recurring problems found during release review
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Release Announcements — practical guidance on announcing podling releases
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Release Votes — patterns and lessons from vote discussions
Graduation
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Graduation Readiness — issues that commonly appear late in incubation
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Graduation Identity — branding, domains, and public identity at graduation
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Graduation Votes — how graduation discussions typically unfold