Rather than process to onboard mentors I would suggest a process to onboard the podling - specifically a video call that the mentors and initial committers attend, and where mentors set expectations for incubation and answer questions. (I have shared this idea on this list a couple of times, and I uploaded a slide deck at one point.)
All mentors arrive with a lot of knowledge of ASF, and usually of incubation too, so that doesn’t need to be taught. The other aspects of mentoring are complementary - very similar to parenting - where one mentor will notice something missing and step up to do it. The job of a mentor is ”to do whatever the project needs that the other mentors aren’t doing”. The other key factor - also like parenting - is just sticking around. It’s easier to be a mentor if the other mentors are present. So, if the mentors respect each other and have some kind of social bond, that helps. Julian > On Jun 14, 2025, at 06:59, Justin Mclean <jus...@classsoftware.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > Andrew left a comment on the onboarding document: “Is there any process > through which mentors share their experiences and support each other? If > there is, there should be a section describing it; if not, maybe there should > be. Seems like, without it, we may lose a lot of wisdom and opportunities to > mentor a new mentor.” > > Which got me thinking about a simple offboarding process for mentors to help > other mentors. [1] What do people think? > > Kind Regards, > Justin > > 1. https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/x/VYoUFg > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
