Guidelines for Achieving Project Release Maturity
summary
An initiative produces a white paper and a checklist across seven release pillars so projects can prove release readiness, with case studies from Kubernetes (≈330 repos, three releases per year, krel tooling, registry.k8s.io) and Helm (Helm 4 major bump, strict semantic versioning and documented release steps). CI uses Prow for merge queues and testing, artifacts get artifact signing (GPG now moving toward cosign) and SBOMs, vulnerability handling uses HackerOne and a public CVE feed, and many repos automate license and CI checks.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Project release maturity intro
- 1:24Source control & repo structure
- 7:03Versioning & branching
- 10:55Documentation & user guides
- 14:05Licensing & compliance
- 15:53Testing & CI/QA
- 19:47Security & vulnerabilities
- 24:46Release workflows
- 30:09Collaborative checklist
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