The kind words are much appreciated, Matt. We’re all volunteers; that’s why we do this.
Regarding ‘expectation management’, and communication between mentors and podlings. I think that we at Apache tend to rely on email a little too much. Email works, but only once you have established a personal connection. We started off Hop’s incubation with a Zoom call where the mentors and most of the initial committers were present. I used a slide deck [1] to set the agenda, but most of the meeting was spent just answering questions on people's minds. I would encourage other mentors/champions to follow a similar process with their podlings. Ping me if you would like an editable copy of the slides. Julian [1] https://www.slideshare.net/julianhyde/what-to-expect-when-youre-incubating On Jan 4, 2022, at 5:37 AM, Matt Casters <matt.cast...@neo4j.com.INVALID> wrote: Dear ASF Incubator, Now that Hop graduated as a TLP I would like to take a few moments to thank everyone that was involved in helping us throughout the graduation process. First and foremost I want to thank our mentors who did an excellent job in guiding us. In particular Julian Hyde was very present with practical advice and, I think, much needed expectation management in the very beginning. In the incubator we tried to follow the approach of structurally solving advice and comments that were given. This worked great I think. Lots of people chipped in with advice but Justin Mclean: thanks a lot, you really made a difference. You were always capable of digging up extra stuff and honestly, our project is in a much better shape because of this. Kind regards, Matt