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Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 09:01:18 -0800
From: Jason van Zyl <jvanzyl@apache.org>
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Subject: Process for becoming a mentor
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Hi,

Just poking around the incubator site and I see a responsibilities page 
for Mentors which is good but I don't see any criteria for being a 
mentor. But I think starting with three simple ones would be a start:

1) Active interest in the project being mentored
2) Commitment to future involvement
3) Discussion with the project to see if there is a good fit and get the 
buy in of the folks on the project

With those ideas in mind there are three projects would like to mentor: 
OpenEJB, ODE, and ActiveMQ.

OpenEJB:
1) I don't use J2EE but I have helped with the conversion of OpenEJB to 
Maven2 and it's an interesting build problem given how it works with 
Geronimo.
2) I will help with the Maven2 build in the future and might actually 
use OpenEJB v3 when it's decoupled from Geronimo :-)
3) I've talked to David Blevins and he interested

ODE:
1) I've started trying to integrate ODE into some applications I'm 
developing
2) I would like to throw away all the workflow engines I've half started 
and use ODE for many of the Maven-centric applications which require 
management of development processes
3) I've talked briefly with James but would like some agreement from the 
other ODE folks whom I've never met

ActiveMQ:
1) ActiveMQ has been integrated into a distributed version of Continuum 
(thanks to the GBuild project in Geronimo)
2) ActiveMQ will continue to be used in Continuum and I am actively 
trying to move the GBuild code into Continuum proper  now so there will 
be a long term relationship there
3) I've talked to James and Hiram and they are interested

At any rate I would like to be a mentor for these projects so what do I 
do from here? I think it's important that mentor's justify their 
position and I think have done so above and so does the Incubator PMC 
approve a mentor for a project? I assume that's voted on like everything 
else but don't see that anywhere in the process of becoming a mentor.

Thanks,

Jason van Zyl

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