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Kubernetes SIG Release Community Group Annual Reports 2020

This report reflects back on CY 2020 and was written in April 2021.

Operational

  • How are you doing with operational tasks in [SIG]-governance.md?
    • Is your README accurate? have a CONTRIBUTING.md file?
      • The README is up to date and accurate, we do not have a CONTRIBUTING.md file.
    • All subprojects correctly mapped and listed in sigs.yaml?
      • Yes
    • What’s your meeting culture? Large/small, active/quiet, learnings? Meeting notes up to date? Are you keeping recordings up to date/trends in community members watching recordings?
      • We have weekly zoom meetings with a duration of 45min: one for the overall SIG and one for the Release Engineering subproject. Both meetings have ~20 people, where sometimes new contributors or members of other SIGs join as well.
      • We refined the meeting structure to have a fixed 20 minute block to walk our project boards.
      • There is a timebox of 20minutes for informal status updates, too.
      • The last 5 minutes are free for open discussion.
      • Meeting notes are up to date and all meetings are recorded.
  • How does the group get updates, reports, or feedback from subprojects? Are there any springing up or being retired? Are OWNERS.md files up to date in these areas?
    • The SIG Release meeting serves updates for the release cycle as well as the Engineering subproject.
    • The release Engineering meeting give more in-depth details about the technical topics within the SIG.
    • We have an additional agreement how to work together in terms of Release Engineering
  • Same question as above but for working groups.
    • We do not have any working groups within the SIG.
  • When was your last public community-wide update? (provide link to deck and/or recording)

Membership

  • Are all listed SIG leaders (chairs, tech leads, and subproject owners) active?
    • Yes
  • How do you measure membership? By mailing list members, OWNERs, or something else?
    • Those that are contributing and actively engaged with the meetings.
  • How does the group measure reviewer and approver bandwidth? Do you need help in any area now? What are you doing about it?
    • We do not actively monitor reviewer/approver bandwidth in a formalized way. We walk the project boards during our meetings and triage incoming issues and PRs in dedicated sessions. We also have to do the cherry-pick reviews for patches, which is done by the release managers in a continuous process.
  • Is there a healthy onboarding and growth path for contributors in your SIG? What are some activities that the group does to encourage this? What programs are you participating in to grow contributors throughout the contributor ladder?
    • We have the SIG Release Shadowing Program for new members to join the release cycle.
    • There is the opportunity to become a Release Manager (associate) within the Release Engineering subproject, too.
    • The SIG has Technical Lead and a Program Manager roles to further support the SIG.
    • We are actively applying the good-first-issue and help-wanted labels to issues and are closely mentoring new contributors who pick up these issues.
  • What programs do you participate in for new contributors?
    • The SIG Release Shadowing program
  • Does the group have contributors from multiple companies/affiliations? Can end users/companies contribute in some way that they currently are not?
    • Yes, we have multiple avenues for contributing for both code and non-code projects alike.

Current initiatives and project health

  • What are initiatives that should be highlighted, lauded, shout outs, that your group is proud of? Currently underway? What are some of the longer tail projects that your group is working on?
    • The introduced Program Manager role is our highlight to keep the SIG making continuously progress
    • Dedicated issue triage session
    • Building a North Star Vision Roadmap for long term planning
    • Continuously enhancing the release cycle timings and tooling around it
  • Year to date KEP work:
  • What initiatives are you working on that aren't being tracked in KEPs?
  • What areas and/or subprojects does the group need the most help with?
    • Nothing to mention right now, we're always looking for help in Release Engineering related topics. Beside that we have to assemble a Release Team each cycle which follows its own process.
  • What metrics/community health stats does your group care about and/or measure?
    • We mainly stick to our project boards