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• Kubernetes releases occur every four months and involve a large team of contributors.
• Fixing issues in releases often requires deep expertise possessed by a small set of people, leading to unsustainable firefighting.
• The talk provides examples of past incidents and what was learned from them.
• Improvements and takeaways for maintaining sustainability in open-source projects are discussed.

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• Proposals for improving observability in the context of open telemetry
• Capturing logs and profiles from client applications in addition to existing services and infrastructure
• Semantic conventions for cloud spend and security use cases
• Standard query format for telemetry data
• Collaboration with other CNCF projects

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• Understanding where to contribute best is important in open source ecosystems
• There are other opportunities available besides the release team
• Sustainability of contributions is key to climbing the contributor ladder
• The release team has specific roles and time commitments
• Applications for the release shadow program are sent out at the end of each release