Hi. I created a data-driven guide that looks at 10 years of public dev@ mailing list subject lines from 2015 to 2025. The goal is to understand how podlings usually develop governance practices during incubation.
Some clear patterns emerged: - Podlings that graduate usually have steady public governance activity, share decision-making, and make regular release attempts. - Podlings that retire often go through long quiet periods and have irregular governance activity long before retirement comes up. - Release-related governance is more closely linked to graduation than I thought before. - The most helpful signals show up in the months before graduation or retirement, not in the vote threads themselves. - Unusual uses of votes are rare and mostly happened in the past. Healthy podlings depend on discussion and lazy consensus. This project used a lot of data: over 150 podlings, 4,000 monthly dev@ mailing list archives, and 10,000 threads about governance issues. You can find the full documents here [1]. As always, I welcome your feedback. Kind Regards, Justin 1. https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/INCUBATOR/Podling+Governance+Patterns
