Mentorship programs. Growing new team and community leaders

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Mentorship programs Growing new team and community leaders Oleg Nenashev, Gradle

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2 > whoami Oleg Nenashev “I am a beaver who builds and maintains the communities”

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> whoami @oleg_nenashev oleg-nenashev Dr. Nenashev / Mr. Jenkins Community builder Developer Tools Hacker Gradle + Freelance consultant #RussiansAgainstPutin #StandWithUkraine

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My Open [and not so] Communities Time * Once a contributor, [almost] always a contributor Neuchâtel 4

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* Saw (2004) Yes, this elephant in the room

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Disclaimer 6 Gradle == Gradle Build Tool in this talk It’s not a “Gradle vs Maven” talk. It is not a Gradle one I use both Maven and Gradle IMO: There is no place for “vs” in open source

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7 And we mean it Valentine Day’s post

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Image source: https://stihi.ru/2019/09/10/1832 That maintainer from Nebraska JVM ecosystem, build tools, containers, platforms, etc. Apache Maven ecosystem: Libraries, Plugins, Repositories Your automation frameworks, plugins and infrastructure Your project and velocity

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10 See ge.apache.org helps Used in Beam, Groovy, Kafka, Lucent, Pulsar, Solr, etc. ● 37 onboarded projects ● 31 days per week - savings from the build cache ● 116 days per week - savings from all caching ● 30k builds per week ● 503d of total build time per week

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1 2 Let’s Chat at the Gradle Booth!

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Async Q&A: Gradle Community Slack speakerdeck.com/onenashev

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Community > Code

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Maintainer != Community Leader (chuckles) I am in danger

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Project Maintainer is not [ALWAYS] a Community Leader

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Community Leader is not [ALWAYS] a Project Maintainer * but a community maintainer?

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Maintainers Don’t Scale * … and don’t grow on Git trees

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User Comitter Maintainer Community Leader Stakeholder or mentor Leadership is not about code Fast track to leadership

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Mentorship programs are great for the community

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Mentorship Programs. Why? • Onboarding individual and company contributors • Community bonding and retention • Driving key initiatives • Guerilla marketing • Growing community leaders

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Mentorship Programs ● Learning experience for all parties ● Community bonding ● Nice2Have: Delivering Something ● Nice2Have: Driving the project’s roadmap

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Outreach Programs in Jenkins jenkins.io/sigs/advocacy-and-outreach/outreach-programs

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In Gradle Build Tool ● GSoC 2023 - Support for Kotlin DSL in Eclipse / Buildship ● 2 mentees in Major League Hacking (MLH) newsletter.gradle.org/2024/01

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Tanish Ranjan Hongjie (Jay) Wei Kotlin Foundation Gradle in Google Summer of Code 2024 community.gradle.org/events/gsoc

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Not just code! Zainab Abubakar @zaycodes ● Google Season of Docs 2020 ○ jenkins.io/blog/2020/12/04/gsod-project-report ● Keynotes at CloudBees/CDF events ● Presented at the D&I Council at CB ● Multi-year SheCodeAfrica collaboration on documentation/code hackathons ○ Event sponsorship ○ Co-promotion

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Community leader candidates are out there Mentee Co-mentor(s) Users Comitters Maintainers Leaders Lead Mentor Org admins Organizers Sponsors

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Being a Lead Mentor is hard Difﬁcult Exhausting Not always fun … but rewarding

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archive.fosdem.org/2020/schedule/event/selfish_contributor Being a Lead Mentor is hard… but rewarding James Bottomley, “The Selﬁsh Contributor Explained”, FOSDEM 2020

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Mentorship is great for YOU ● Side projects!!! Swag!!! ● Leadership practice ● Learning together with mentees ● Visibility in open source, network ● Inﬂuence in the community

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Exposure and visibility on the market Ewelina Wilkosz – Most Valuable Jenkins Contributor @ Jenkins World Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit – Select FOSS Event

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Networking jenkins.io/blog/2020/01/29/gsoc-report/ 32

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[Community] Leadership == Path to the next roles ● People manager ● Product manager ● Project manager ● Community manager ● …

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Your mentors do not have to do it during their spare time

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archive.fosdem.org/2020/schedule/event/selfish_contributor Being a Lead Mentor is hard… but rewarding James Bottomley, “The Selﬁsh Contributor Explained”, FOSDEM 2020

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“The Selﬁsh Contributor Organization Explained” * In my backlog / Hall of Shame

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Mentorship is great for Your Company ● (?) Open-source ecosystem around products

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Ecosystem needs time and effort 38 wiremock/ecosystem

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A lot of time and effort 39 testcontainers.com/modules

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40 x.com/dastbe/status/1303858170155081728

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42 Open Source Standards and collaborations is a great way to start * Unix way

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Mentorship is great for Your Company ● (?) Open-source ecosystem around products ● (?) Features in our FOSS projects and products

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Facilitating the Roadmap github.com/gradle/gradle/issues/283 Example: ● Experimental projects you cannot ﬁnd time for ● Compatibility ● Adoption in the ecosystem, e.g. IDE and developer tools

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Do NOT do it alone It is not enough to have one champion of the roadmap “It’s me, hi, I’m the problem, it’s me”.gif Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHZBMjnF6-4

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Mentorship is great for Your Company ● (?) Open-source ecosystem around products ● (?) Features in our FOSS projects and products ● Marketing content ● Visibility in open source ● Recruitment opportunities

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[Community] Leadership == Path to the next roles ● People manager ● Product manager ● Project manager ● Community manager ● …

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Takeaways ● Mentorship in open source is not just volunteering ● Mentorship is good for your career ● It’s a great way to practice leadership skills ● “Leadership practice” is Learning & Development, can be justiﬁed at your company

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References ● My slides: speakerdeck.com/onenashev/ ● Gradle at GSoC: community.gradle.org/events/gsoc/ ● Blog from the Dynatrace times: engineering.dynatrace.com/blog/mentoring- in-open-source-my-journey-so-far

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5 3 Let’s Chat at the Gradle Booth!

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54 Let’s do a Developer Productivity Interview! calendly.com/onenashev/

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It’s [always] a great time to contribute! community.gradle.org/contributing jenkins.io/participate wiremock.org/docs/participate java.testcontainers.org/contributing 57

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Questions? Contacts: GitHub: oleg-nenashev Twitter: @oleg_nenashev