Guide :: Mentor Path

📘 IPMC Oversight - how the IPMC provides high-level oversight, guidance, and course correction across podlings

📘 Incubation Explained - overview of the Incubator’s purpose, practices, and lessons learned

📘 Podling Orientation Guide - introduction to the incubation process and expectations for new podlings

📘 Who Does What - clarifies roles and responsibilities across the ASF, IPMC, mentors, and podling PMCs

📘 Why Governance Matters - explains why governance is central to ASF culture and how mentors help podlings apply it

🖥️ ASF Values - introduction to the core cultural values of the ASF

🎞️ ASF Values - video overview of ASF Values

📘 Incubation Readiness - patterns seen when projects are (and are not) ready to enter incubation

📘 Proposal Discussions - what typically comes up during proposal threads and reviews

📘 Joining the Incubator - what prospective podlings should know before applying and how mentors can guide them through the proposal process

📘 Mentor Onboarding - guidance on the responsibilities and expectations of new mentors

🎞️ Mentor Onboarding - video of Mentor Onboarding presentation

📘 Mentor Offboarding - guidance on stepping back and handing off mentoring responsibilities

📘 Selecting a PMC Chair - guidance on choosing a balanced and effective PMC Chair

🖥️ Community Building in Practice (Slide Deck) - building and sustaining healthy, diverse communities

🎞️ Community Building in Practice - how mentors can help podlings turn contributors into a sustainable Apache community

🎮 Mentoring in Practice - interactive, story-based exercises that help mentors explore real-world incubation challenges

📘 Community Governance - recurring governance issues mentors commonly help resolve

📘 Initial Committer Selection - early committer decisions and their long-term impact on governance

📘 Governance in Practice - guidance on applying ASF governance principles in podling communities

🖥️ Governance in Practice (Slide Deck) - how ASF governance works day to day

🎞️ Governance in Practice - turning ASF principles into everyday project practice

📘 Common Myths About the Incubator - corrects frequent misunderstandings about incubation, reporting, and decision-making

📘 Voting and Consensus in Practice - how consensus and voting shape decision-making in ASF projects

🖥️ Voting and Consensus in Practice (Slide Deck) - understanding how Apache communities make decisions

🎞️ Voting and Consensus in Practice - how ASF projects make transparent, inclusive, and consensus-driven decisions

📘 Communication in Apache Projects - helping podlings use mailing lists and chats transparently and effectively

📘 Vendor Neutrality - ensuring projects remain independent of single-vendor control

📘Neutrality In Practice — practical guidance on how incubating projects maintain community-led, vendor-neutral governance

🖥️ Vendor Neutrality (Slide Deck) - why balanced governance keeps Apache projects healthy and independent

🎞️ Vendor Neutrality - how mentors can help podlings maintain a balanced and independent community

📘 Edge Cases - uncommon or ambiguous situations raised during incubation

🖥️ Branding & Identity (Slide Deck) - guidance on name use, logo policy, and protecting ASF trademarks

🎞️ Branding & Identity - how mentors can guide podlings to follow ASF branding and identity policies

📘 Third-Party Branding and Incubating Projects - using third-party brands while respecting ASF branding policies

📘 Legal Basics - ensuring podling releases meet ASF legal and licensing requirements

📘 Interacting with ASF Infrastructure - when and how mentors can help podlings engage with ASF Infra

📘 Naming and Branding - identity and presentation issues that arise during incubation

📘 Naming and Trademarks - trademark-related questions raised in practice

📘 Licensing and Provenance - recurring licensing and source-origin concerns

📘 Project Report Guide - guidance on preparing and submitting ASF project reports to the Board

🧠 Incubator Reporting Scenarios - interactive practice on writing and evaluating podling reports

📘 Measuring Podling Health - how mentors evaluate community activity, diversity, and engagement

📘 Release Vote Insights - analysis of vote patterns and lessons from past release reviews to improve mentoring and podling readiness

📘 Incubator Case Studies - examples of challenges and successes from past podlings

📘 Practicing The Apache Way - scenario-based cases from real Incubator situations (anonymized)

📘 Incubator Discussion Trends - long-term patterns in general@ list topics over ten years

📘 Mentor Engagement Patterns - data-driven analysis of mentor participation, sign-offs, and responsiveness

📘 Mentor Trends - common podling issues and mentoring patterns from recent report analysis

📘 Incubator Health - long-term system-wide health indicators across the Incubator

📘 10 Years of the Incubator — a decade-long retrospective on Incubator growth, scale, challenges, and governance evolution

📘 10 Years Summary - summary of ten years of Incubator trends, impacts, and governance evolution

📘 IPMC Governance - long-term analysis of incubator-general governance activity, participation continuity, and how governance load scales with podling population

📘 Governance Patterns — cross-podling study of mailing-list activity revealing common governance-development trajectories and warning signals during incubation

📘 Podling Governance Patterns — observed patterns in how podlings develop governance during incubation, based on long-term analysis of public mailing-list activity and podling outcomes

📘 Community and Governance Growth — ten-year empirical study of how podlings build sustainable community and governance over time: key healthy growth trajectories and common risk signals