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How to Get Your Release Through the Incubator – Justin Mclean

All podling releases need to voted on by the incubator PMC before being released to the world. I’ll go though what the incubator PMC looks for in every release and what you can do to make it pass that vote and get your project one step closer to graduation.

In this talk I’ll describe current incubator and ASF policy, recent changes that you may not be aware of, and go into detail the legal requirements of common licenses and the best way to assemble your NOTICE and LICENSE files. Where possible I describe the reasons behind why things are done a certain which may not always be obvious from our documentation.

I’ll show how I review a release and the simple tools I use. I’ll go through a worked example or two, including a fictional project called Apache Wombat, and cover common mistakes I’ve seen in releases and finally where you can get help if you need it.

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How to Be a Bad Mentor for a Struggling Podling Subject to Terrible Policies – Roman Shaposhnik

With major apologies to David Patterson for stealing the title of his last lecture https://s.apache.org/how_to_be_a_bad_professor (I guess he taught us well after all!) I would like to present this talk that focuses on Apache Incubator, its podlings and mentors. This presentation will start with an overview of common mistakes that I have observed while mentoring on my own and seeing others do the same. We will proceed to talking about misconceptions on both sides that make Apache Incubator policies appear daunting and bureaucratic. We will conclude by a 10 steps program aimed at helping podling master the Apache Way and graduate as quickly as possible. Finally, a few battle stories will be shared and wounds put on display. This former VP of Incubator has a few to show.

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