Incubation Mentor Guidelines

Role

An Incubation Mentor is assigned to each project that is accepted into the OSGeo Incubator.

An Incubation Mentor is a member of Incubation Committee that is not associated directly with the project to be mentored.

An Incubation Mentor reports to the Incubation Committee.

Responsibilities

The Incubation Mentor is responsible:

• to the Incubation Committee for:
  • assessing the status of the project on a regular basis
  • reporting to the Incubation Committee on project status on a regular basis
  • making a recommendation to the Incubation Committee about the project (graduation or dismissal(?))

• to the project under incubation for:
  • advising the project on the incubation process
  • identifying all documents the project must complete, and assisting where practical
  • reviewing submitted documents
  • establishing the necessary infrastructure for the project under incubation (wiki, web site, svn/cvs, mailing list) as required
  • (optional) assisting in some of the actual work to be done

Notes

The mentor should be the member of the incubation committee that is expected to do a deep review of the project. This includes:

• Join the various project mailing lists, to assess community health, and answer questions about OSGeo.
• Attend most project meetings.
• Investigate bug database, run software, etc to assess software quality and responsibleness of quality processes.
• Evaluate if the project PSC is really in control of the project, and is operating in a heathy fashion.
• Spot check the code copyright review to see that it reflects reality.

Mentorship is a time consuming process.