Developing and sustaining a healthy community of contributors is critical to scaling the project and growing the ecosystem. We need to ensure our contributors are happy and productive, and that there are not bottlenecks hindering the project in, for example: feature velocity, community scaling, pull request latency, and absolute numbers of open pull requests and open issues.
The charter defines the scope and governance of the Contributor Experience Special Interest Group.
Joining the mailing list for the group will typically add invites for the following meetings to your calendar.
- Regular SIG Meeting: Wednesdays at 9:00 PT (Pacific Time) (weekly alternating slack/zoom). Convert to your timezone.
The Chairs of the SIG run operations and processes governing the SIG.
- Kaslin Fields (@kaslin), Google
- Nabarun Pal (@palnabarun), VMware
The Technical Leads of the SIG establish new subprojects, decommission existing subprojects, and resolve cross-subproject technical issues and decisions.
- Madhav Jivrajani (@MadhavJivrajani), VMware
- Priyanka Saggu (@Priyankasaggu11929), SUSE
- Elsie Phillips (@Phillels)
- Alison Dowdney (@alisondy)
- Jorge Castro (@castrojo)
- Christoph Blecker (@cblecker)
- Garrett Rodrigues (@grodrigues3)
- Josh Berkus (@jberkus)
- Bob Killen (@mrbobbytables)
- Nikhita Raghunath (@nikhita)
- Paris Pittman (@parispittman)
- Slack: #sig-contribex
- Mailing list
- Open Community Issues/PRs
- GitHub Teams:
- @kubernetes/sig-contributor-experience - General Discussion
- @kubernetes/sig-contributor-experience-leads - Chairs and Technical Leads
- @kubernetes/sig-contributor-experience-pr-reviews - PR Reviews
- Steering Committee Liaison: Bob Killen (@mrbobbytables)
The following subprojects are owned by sig-contributor-experience:
Owns and manages overall community repo, including community group documentation and operations.
- Owners:
Manages operations and policy for upstream community group communication platforms.
Contributor Communications focuses on amplifying the success of Kubernetes contributors through marketing.
- Owners:
- Meetings:
- Contributor Comms - Contributor Comms Team Meeting: Fridays at 8:00 PT (Pacific Time) (weekly). Convert to your timezone.
writes and maintains documentation around contributing to Kubernetes, including the Contributor's Guide, Developer's Guide, and contributor website.
Maintains and updates https://k8s.devstats.cncf.io, including taking requests for new charts.
- Owners:
- Contact:
- Slack: #devstats
Oversees running elections in the community. Maintains documentation and software for elections.
- Owners:
- Contact:
- Slack: #sig-contribex
Creates and runs contributor-focused events, such as the Contributor Summit. Event Teams are part of this subproject.
- Owners:
- Contact:
- Slack: #sig-contribex
Manages and controls Github permissions, repos, and groups, including Org Membership.
- Owners:
- Contact:
- Slack: #github-management
- Meetings:
- GitHub Administration Subproject: Thursdays at 09:00 PT (Pacific Time) (Monthly on 4th Thursday). Convert to your timezone.
Oversees and develops programs for helping contributors ascend the contributor ladder, including the New Contributor Workshops, and other programs.
- Owners:
Repository for GitHub actions and artifacts related to all sigs in Kubernetes.
Creates and maintains tools and automation for Kubernetes Slack.
- Owners:
- Contact:
- Slack: #slack-infra
This is a collection of presentations from our SIG members around contributing to Kubernetes, feel free to PR in content here:
This is the work we've done this past cycle and plan to work on in the future:
- How to Contribute to Kubernetes - Nikhita Raghunath
- Practical git for Kubernetes Contributors- Christoph Blecker
- State of the Kubernetes Contributor Community - Paris Pittman
- A peek behind the curtain: Managing the Kubernetes Contributor Community
We give our SIG status at every KubeCon, here are our most current talks:
- From Automation to Community: A Deep Dive Into SIG Contributor Experience, Europe 2023 - Madhav Jivrajani, Priyanka Saggu, Kaslin Fields
- SIG Contributor Experience Deep Dive, North America 2022 - Nabarun Pal & Madhav Jivrajani, Marky Jackson, Kaslin Fields
- SIG Contributor Experience Deep Dive, Europe 2022 - Alison Dowdney, Christoph Blecker, Bob Killen
- SIG Contributor Experience Deep Dive, North America 2021 - Alison Dowdney, Christoph Blecker
- SIG Contributor Experience Deep Dive, Europe 2021 - Bob Killen, Alison Dowdney, Christoph Blecker, Nikhita Raghunath
- Introdution to Contributor Experience 2020 - Bob Killen, Jorge Castro
- Introduction to Contributor Experience 2019 - Elsie Phillips, Paris Pittman
- Contributor Experience Deep Dive 2019 - Christoph Blecker, Nikhita Raghunath