Guide :: Theme: governance

📘 10 Years of the Incubator - A data-driven retrospective (2015–2025) summarising podling lifecycles, governance patterns, and long-term structural and community trends across the Incubator.

📘 10 Years Summary - A summary of ten years of the Incubator - covering podling lifecycles, governance trends, community evolution, and overall Incubator health over time.

📘 Common Myths - Corrects common misconceptions about incubation, voting, and ASF processes.

📘 Community and Governance Growth - Based on ten years of Incubator data (2016–2025), this guide highlights common patterns of healthy podling community and governance growth, contributor onboarding, governance maturity, and long-term sustainability. It distinguishes typical successful trajectories from struggling ones to help podlings, mentors, and IPMC reflect on community-building and governance practices.

📘 Governance in Practice - Shows how ASF values translate into day-to-day community decisions.

📘 Governance Patterns - Data-driven analysis (2015–2025) of incubator-general mailing list activity, releases, votes, and how governance load, release cadence, and participation diversity correlate with podling population and project health.

📘 Graduation and Beyond - Guidance on transitioning from a podling to a Top-Level Project and beyond.

📘 Graduation Criteria - Lists readiness indicators and criteria for podlings to graduate from incubation.

📘 Incubator Case Studies - Examples of podling challenges and successes across the Incubator.

📘 Incubator Discussion Trends - Analysis of a decade of topic shifts on the general@incubator.apache.org list.

📘 Incubator PMC Onboarding - Explains the IPMC’s oversight role and responsibilities for podlings.

📘 IPMC Governance - A data-driven guide analysing how IPMC governance activity changes over time using incubator-general mailing list participation, showing how podling load shapes oversight concentration, continuity, renewal, and governance capacity.

📘 IPMC Reflection and Oversight - Draws lessons from case studies to strengthen IPMC oversight and consistency.

📘 Joining the Incubator - Explains what to expect before applying, reasons to join or not, and how the proposal process works.

📘 Mentor Handbook - Comprehensive reference to mentoring practices, expectations, and tools.

📘 Mentor Onboarding - Introduces how mentors guide and support podlings through incubation.

📘 Mentor Replacement - Explains how to add, replace, or rebalance mentors for podlings.

📘 Neutrality In Practice - Practical examples of how incubating projects maintain community-led, vendor-neutral governance.

📘 Podling Committer Onboarding - Outlines expectations, access rights, and responsibilities for new committers in podlings.

📘 Podling Governance Patterns - Analysis of ten years (2015–2025) of public-mailing-list data to surface common governance and release-behaviour patterns: distinguishing healthy podlings that graduate from those that stagnate and retire.

📘 Podling Orientation Guide - Introduces how incubation works and the core elements of ASF culture for new podlings.

📘 Podling PPMC Onboarding - Guidance for PPMC members on managing community decisions and governance.

📘 Practicing The Apache Way - Real-world examples of applying The Apache Way in day-to-day project work.

📘 Release Vote Insights - Patterns from ten years of Incubator release votes, with lessons that improve mentor guidance and podling readiness.

📘 Reporting Guide - Explains how to prepare and submit clear, transparent reports for the ASF and IPMC.

📘 Retiring Podlings - Explains when and how to retire inactive podlings gracefully.

📘 Select Your Mentors - Guidance for podlings and the IPMC on selecting mentors with the right mix of experience, availability, and independence to support healthy incubation.

📘 Selecting a PMC Chair - Guidance on identifying and selecting long-term project stewardship.

📘 Vendor Neutrality - Guidance on ensuring balanced, community-led governance without single-vendor dominance.

📘 Voting and Consensus in Practice - Explains ASF decision processes, including lazy consensus and formal votes.

📘 Who Does What - Defines roles and responsibilities across ASF and Incubator bodies.

📘 Why Governance Matters - Explains how good governance builds long-term trust and sustainability in projects.

🖥️ ASF Values - Slide deck on the principles and values that underpin Apache projects.

🖥️ Committer Onboarding - Slide deck on how committers participate in project work and votes.

🖥️ Governance in Practice - Slide deck on how governance works in practice in Apache communities.

🖥️ IPMC Onboarding - Slide deck on how the IPMC ensures project compliance and mentoring quality.

🖥️ Mentor Onboarding - Slide deck outlining expectations, responsibilities, and scope of Incubator mentors.

🖥️ PPMC Onboarding - Slide deck on stewardship and governance responsibilities for podling PMCs.

🖥️ Vendor Neutrality - Slide deck on avoiding single-vendor dominance in incubating projects.

🖥️ Voting and Consensus - Slide deck on lazy consensus, formal voting, and recording decisions.

🎞️ ASF Values - Video on transparency, consensus, and community over code in Apache projects.

🎞️ Committer Onboarding - Video explaining committer rights, responsibilities, and good practices.

🎞️ Governance in Practice - Video illustrating transparency and inclusivity in Apache governance.

🎞️ IPMC Onboarding - Video explaining IPMC review and decision processes.

🎞️ Mentor Onboarding - Video on real-world mentoring practices and how to support podlings effectively.

🎞️ Podling Orientation: Starting Your Apache Journey - Video introducing the first steps for new podlings joining the Apache Incubator.

🎞️ PPMC Onboarding - Video on how podlings self-govern and grow into sustainable communities.

🎞️ Vendor Neutrality - Video explaining why vendor neutrality matters for ASF project health.

🎞️ Voting and Consensus - Video demonstrating consensus-building and voting in practice.

🧩 ASF Member Quiz - Quiz on ASF culture, values, and membership expectations.

🧠 IPMC Scenarios - Scenario-based exercises to assess governance, podling health, and readiness from an IPMC perspective.

🧠 Reporting Scenarios - Scenario-based practice for writing and reviewing podling reports.