TL;DR; Following earlier discussion with Justin, I would like to propose myself to be accepted as a mentor by Hamilton and Burr incubating projects.
I have been already trying to help and provide my guidance - last month i was on a long vacations and attending both Community Over Code and Airflow Summit so my availability was kinda limited, but since I am back now and got a bit through pile of things that grew, I am happy to spend a bit more time - and I would love to be officially accepted as a mentor. Of course - I spend all 150% of my time on Airflow, but also after 6 years of being PMC member that also means I have quite a good understanding of what it means to be an ASF project - from release, discussions, vendor neutrality, decision making and building community point of view, so I am happy to provide my guidance to both Hamilton and Burr - both technology and "space" and user base are very similar to Airflow - so you might see Hamitlon and Burr as somehow "competition" to Airflow but in case of ASF we do not think in this terms for other ASF projects (we already have "NiFi", "Dolphin Scheduler" used to have "Oozie" and there are few other ASF projects that are similar. And I am friends (and have been helping in the past) all of those PMCs as well). As long as we avoid (as PMC) referring and "poking" at others and avoid unhealthy "comparative" communication (there were other cases in the ASF where "competing" projects had this kind of communication and it was called out and stopped) - this is all part of "release software for public good" mission and healthy "coopetition" - we can also learn from each other. And to be honest also my interest in spending time looking at Hamilton and Burr discussion is to see if we can learn something and apply to Airflow - we are always at a lookout of ideas and looking at what others do - purely to see if we can improve and maybe creatively apply similar approaches if we find them interesting and useful for our users. One more things - for those who do not realise - I met Stefan already and we discussed Hamliton and Burr in the past - both in "electronic" and in-person communication, I think last time we met at Pycon US in 2024 and this is where we also discussed that one day Hamilton and Burr might become an ASF incubated project (I hope that discussion was partially reason why they both incubate now, though I think only Stefan can tell how much it influenced it. One last thing - I am also a security committee member at the ASF - which means that I am involved in overlooking the process of security issue handling, and i also see all the security related discussions, this is something (security) that will become even more important in near future (because of CRA regulations and similar) - and I am happy to help with that as well - I am also involved in "Apache Trusted Release" efforts by the Foundation so hopefully in the next few months we will get to the place where the mechanics of releases will get a major improvement - with ATR web-based + API tooling, more automation, no SVN involvement and better automation (including Trusted Publishing and Apache PyPI organisation to publish projects) - this is an ongoing efforts where Airflow is part of Alpha (so far) and Beta (next month or so) testing and I will be happy to help with onboarding Hamilton and Burr to that as well. I also write long emails (heh :) ) so you will have to bear with me. But I always try to put TL;DR; to summarise it for those who do not wish to read it all. I hope I can be helpful here. J,
