Guide :: Theme: podling-health

📘 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 Red Flags - Lists issues to watch for during incubation that may indicate problems.

📘 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 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.

📘 Measuring Podling Health - Framework for assessing podling activity, diversity, and responsiveness.

📘 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.

📘 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.

🖥️ Community Building in Practice - Slide deck on building diverse, healthy communities in incubating projects.

🎞️ Community Building in Practice - Video on growing contributors into leaders and sustaining community health.

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

🧠 Mentor Scenarios - Scenario-based exercises covering real-world mentoring challenges and decisions.