Growing Your Design Proposal Process To Meet Your Needs
Talkat CNCF Maintainer Summit Europe 2025 · on Monday, 2025-03-31· at 10:55· Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 10-12·
summary
Kubernetes documents a formal KEP process living in Git with a KEP template, metadata YAML and a production readiness checklist, uses GitHub + prow automation and a release-linked tracking board to handle scale (roughly 95,000 contributors and ~1.5M contributions), enforcing enhancement freezes and PR/test deadlines; benefits are transparency and traceability but paperwork gets stale. KubeVirt builds a slimmed enhancements repo and simple issue template, routes proposals to SIGs, already tracks ~30 proposals and ~150 active devs, and sees the process actually speed alignment and onboarding while requiring ongoing maintenance.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Design proposal processes
- 2:51Kubernetes enhancement origins
- 7:26Tracking CAPs in releases
- 10:14CAP process benefits and challenges
- 13:26Cubeword’s formal process
- 17:16Early struggles with proposals
- 21:31Adapting Kubernetes process
- 24:00Key process changes
- 25:22Balancing process and growth
- 26:06Release schedule alignment
- 27:13Handling urgent features
- 29:37Q&A
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