Kubernetes Steering Committee AMA
summary
Explains concrete governance problems and responses: the project has 70,000 contributors but a chronic need more reviewers and maintainers, so working groups like the LTS effort ran for ~2 years and the community is pushing full-time upstream roles. Practical outcomes include a CNCF job board feature and relying on devstats to find companies already committing people. Annual reports now list help-wanted tasks per SIG, describe graduation/cleanup of alpha features, and point to monthly public steering meetings.
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chapters (26)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:22Who are we
- 2:04Kubernetes governance
- 6:13Seed question
- 6:43Sustainability
- 7:42Member Company Support
- 9:12Communication
- 10:08Participation
- 11:18Growing Leadership
- 13:27Questions
- 13:58Wheres your biggest interest
- 14:13What are the biggest problems
- 17:34Is there a place for fulltime maintainers
- 17:45CNCF Job Board
- 18:41Job Relationships
- 19:59Time Spent Upstream
- 22:15More Reviewers
- 23:16Redefine Kubernetes
- 24:01The 20 bucket
- 24:49What is currently in the project
- 26:50Swim lane principles
- 29:03Maintainers
- 30:49Business Value
- 31:59Featured Direction
- 32:51Final Thoughts
- 34:55Contact Information
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