README.md

Release Special Interest Group

Ensure quality Kubernetes releases

The charter defines the scope and governance of the Release Special Interest Group.

Meetings

Joining the mailing list for the group will typically add invites for the following meetings to your calendar.

• Regular SIG Meeting APAC/EU Oriented Time: Tuesdays at 15:30 UTC (biweekly). Convert to your timezone.
  • Meeting notes and Agenda.
  • Meeting recordings.
• Regular SIG Meeting US Oriented Time: Tuesdays at 17:00 UTC (biweekly). Convert to your timezone.
  • Meeting notes and Agenda.
  • Meeting recordings.

Leadership

Chairs

The Chairs of the SIG run operations and processes governing the SIG.

• Jeremy Rickard (@jeremyrickard), Microsoft
• Stephen Augustus (@justaugustus), Cisco
• Sascha Grunert (@saschagrunert), Red Hat

Technical Leads

The Technical Leads of the SIG establish new subprojects, decommission existing subprojects, and resolve cross-subproject technical issues and decisions.

• Verónica López (@Verolop), PlanetScale
• Carlos Tadeu Panato Jr. (@cpanato), Chainguard, Inc
• Adolfo García Veytia (@puerco), Chainguard, Inc

Emeritus Leads

• Jorge Alarcon Ochoa (@alejandrox1)
• Caleb Miles (@calebamiles)
• Daniel Mangum (@hasheddan)
• Jaice Singer DuMars (@jdumars)
• Tim Pepper (@tpepper)

Contact

• Slack: #sig-release
• Mailing list
• Open Community Issues/PRs
• GitHub Teams:
  • @kubernetes/milestone-maintainers - Milestone Maintainers
  • @kubernetes/sig-release - SIG Release Members
  • @kubernetes/sig-release-admins - Admins for SIG Release repositories
  • @kubernetes/sig-release-leads - Chairs, Technical Leads, and Program Managers for SIG Release
• Steering Committee Liaison: Nabarun Pal (@palnabarun)

Working Groups

The following working groups are sponsored by sig-release:

• WG Reliability

Subprojects

The following subprojects are owned by sig-release:

Release Engineering

The Release Engineering subproject is responsible for the process/procedures and tools used to create/maintain Kubernetes release artifacts.

• Owners:
  • kubernetes-sigs/bom
  • kubernetes-sigs/downloadkubernetes
  • kubernetes-sigs/mdtoc
  • kubernetes-sigs/promo-tools
  • kubernetes-sigs/release-notes
  • kubernetes-sigs/release-sdk
  • kubernetes-sigs/release-utils
  • kubernetes-sigs/tejolote
  • kubernetes-sigs/testgrid-json-exporter
  • kubernetes-sigs/zeitgeist
  • kubernetes/kubernetes/CHANGELOG
  • kubernetes/kubernetes/build/build-image
  • kubernetes/kubernetes/staging/publishing
  • kubernetes/publishing-bot
  • kubernetes/release
  • kubernetes/repo-infra
  • kubernetes/sig-release/release-engineering
  • kubernetes/website/content/en/releases
  • kubernetes/website/data/releases
• Contact:
  • Slack: #release-management
  • Mailing List
  • GitHub Teams:
    • @kubernetes/build-admins
    • @kubernetes/publishing-bot-admins
    • @kubernetes/publishing-bot-maintainers
    • @kubernetes/release-engineering
    • @kubernetes/release-managers - Release Managers
    • @kubernetes/repo-infra-admins
    • @kubernetes/repo-infra-maintainers

Release Team

The Kubernetes Release Team is responsible for the day-to-day work required to successfully create releases of Kubernetes.

• Owners:
  • kubernetes-sigs/release-team-shadow-stats
  • kubernetes/sig-release/release-team
• Contact:
  • Mailing List
  • GitHub Teams:
    • @kubernetes/release-ci-signal
    • @kubernetes/release-team - Members of the current Release Team and subproject owners
    • @kubernetes/release-team-bug-triage
    • @kubernetes/release-team-comms
    • @kubernetes/release-team-docs
    • @kubernetes/release-team-enhancements
    • @kubernetes/release-team-leads - Release Team Leads for the current Kubernetes release cycle
    • @kubernetes/release-team-release-notes

SIG Release Process Documentation

Documents and processes related to SIG Release

• Owners:
  • kubernetes/sig-release

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The canonical location for SIG Release information is kubernetes/sig-release.