Lightning Talk: Stepping Aside To Step Up: Designing Maintainer Succession for...
summary
India registers 103 active CNCF contributors and 60 Kubernetes contributors yet only 14 maintainers across 12 projects while contributing to 44 projects, a ~27% contributor→maintainer conversion. The claim: add 13 approvers to reach parity with Germany’s conversion. Concrete tactics that worked: leadership shadow program that mentored successors and produced promotions (Priyanka), and an approval sprint to pair approvers with mentees. Data sources: devstats, cubestronauts roster of 377 and LFX mentee lists.
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