note - this is a temporary file until we can figure out a better project management solution.
This is a list of the projects and goals currently underway with Contributor Experience. Please submit a PR if you are adding your project to this list. To introduce a new project, attend a weekly meeting or drop a note to us on the mailing list - details can be found on our README.
Want to contribute? Take a look at this list and the "future" at the bottom. Thank you to all of our contributors for your hard work!
| Project | Owner(s)/Lead(s) | Description | Q1, Q2, Later |
|---|---|---|---|
| Charter | SIG Leads | Create our first Charter iteration | Q1 |
| Projects and Goals (this doc) | @parispittman | Create projects.md | Q1 |
| de-SPOF Community Management | @castrojo | eg: YouTube management | Ongoing |
Launch a multi-tier strategy test that promote all levels of the contributor ladder and diversity throughout the project.
| Project | Owner(s)/Lead(s) | Description | Q1, Q2, Later |
|---|---|---|---|
| Group Mentoring | @parispittman | Launch a test cohort that takes 10 current members to reviewer in 3 k8s repos/projects (kops, kubeadm, workload API). Develop the learning and development workshops. | Q1 and ongoing |
| Meet Our Contributors | @parispittman | Monthly web series similar to user office hours that allows anyone to ask new and current contributors questions about our process, ecosystem, or their stories in open source | Q1 - ongoing |
| Outreachy | @parispittman | Document new features, create new conceptual content, create new user paths | Q1 |
| Google Summer of Code | @nikhita | Kubernetes participation in Google Summer of Code for students | Q1 - ongoing |
| "Buddy" Program | @parispittman, @chris-short | 1 hour 1:1 sessions for new and current contributors to have dedicated time; meet our contributors but personal | Q2 |
Ensure the contribution process is well documented, discoverable, and consistent across repos to deliver the best contributor experience.
| Project | Owner(s)/Lead(s) | Description | Q1, Q2, Later |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contributor Guide | @castrojo | Make contributor onboarding easier; first version | Q1 |
| Developer Guide | @ryanj | a comprehensive guide for upstream developers to be a part of the Contributor Guide | Q2 |
| New Contributor Website | @castrojo | A new home for all things community -documentation, KEPs, Mentoring, + more | Q2 - ongoing |
| Label Documentation | @spiffxp | GitHub is rolling out a label description feature in the future; this is to document the label descriptions for contributors | Q1 |
| Issue hygiene | @spzala | Produce clear understanding and documentation of issue hygiene | Q1 |
Ensure contributors have a smooth and similar process across repos to deliver the best contributor experience. Provide sufficient automation so that direct write access to repos is no longer required.
| Project | Owner(s)/Lead(s) | Description | Q1, Q2, Later |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cherry Pick Process | @spiffxp | Design and Prototype | Q2 |
| PR Descriptions | @grodrigues3, @spiffxp | Automation allowing people to edit pr descriptions for tldr or correct issue / pr; release notes based (design). Define remaining work to be done. | Q1 - ongoing |
Build, curate, moderate, and make project wide communication channels accessible.
| Project | Owner(s)/Lead(s) | Description | Q1, Q2, Later |
|---|---|---|---|
| Slack Admin Guidelines | @parispittman | First iteration of guidelines to administer slack for 30k+ users | Q1 |
| Weekly K8s Community Meeting | @castrojo, @parispittman | Smooth out weekly community meeting and make adjustments | Ongoing |
| Roadshow | @parispittman | ContribEx to visit all SIG/WG meetings to deliver messages and collect feedback | Ongoing |
| Communication Documentation | @parispittman, @castrojo | Create new communication directory and include all information about our communication channels | Q1, Q2 |
https://k8s.devstats.cncf.io; work devstats into making it the one stop shop for all things upstream Kubernetes data. @phillels is the product owner.
| Project | Owner(s)/Lead(s) | Description | Q1, Q2, Later |
|---|---|---|---|
| Graph of the Week | @phillels | Present at least two graphs a month with explanation about why we care to the community meeting | Ongoing |
| User Guide | @jberkus, @parispittman, @tpepper | Create a v1 README for DevStats that explains each chart | Q2 |
| Data validation | @jberkus | Ensure that the data that running through the tool is accurate and aggregating the right information | ongoing |
Curate and produce the best contributor face to face gatherings.
| Project | Owner(s)/Lead(s) | Description | Q1, Q2, Later |
|---|---|---|---|
| KubeCon | @castrojo, @jberkus, @parispittman | Ensure contributors have great content at the event(s) | Q2, Q4 |
| KubeCon ContribEx Update and Deep Dive | @parispittman, leads | Run the 30 min update and 30 min deep dive at the event | Q2, Q4 |
These projects do not have an owner and have not started yet; however, we would like to get them on the slate for sometime this year.
| Project | Description |
|---|---|
| Automation of new membership | Current process is emailing a googlegroup and an org owner adds person to GH org |
| Audit schedule | Create an audit schedule to make sure all communication pipelines are up and running smoothly eg: check that google group mailing lists have back up owners/maintainers, make sure meetings are following the calendar process, etc. |