SIG Contributor Experience Deep Dive

Conference: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022

2022-05-19

Authors: Bob Killen, Christoph Blecker, Alison Dowdney

Summary

Overview of Kubernetes sub-projects and their functions

Kubernetes has various sub-projects to manage its community, events, documentation, mentoring, and Slack infrastructure
The community sub-project manages communication platforms and moderators to ensure a safe and helpful community
The contributor sub-project focuses on reaching out to contributors and managing their needs
The documentation sub-project provides living documents for general and specific contributions, with plans to create a self-paced contributor course
The mentoring sub-project helps contributors move up the contributor ladder through group mentoring cohorts and shadow programs
The Slack infrastructure sub-project manages a large Slack instance with over 150,000 people

One of the critical areas of the Kubernetes project is mentoring, which helps build up new contributors and assists in succession planning. The project has group mentoring cohorts and shadow programs to help contributors move up the contributor ladder. However, due to resource constraints, some programs like Google Summer Code and Outreach have been scaled back. The project is actively seeking mentors to help build up new contributors and assist in the project's growth.

Abstract

The Kubernetes Contributor Experience Special Interest Group (SIG) is tasked with developing and sustaining a healthy contributor community. Things like feature velocity, community scaling, mentoring, pull request latency, and more all fall within scope of the SIG. In this talk, we will provide an introduction to SIG Contributor Experience, its role within the project, and dive into the various subprojects that support its mission. Additionally, we will provide a general community update and go over how you can get involved.Click here to view captioning/translation in the MeetingPlay platform!

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Tags:

Kubernetes

Contributor Experience

SIG

community

scaling