SIG Release

Mission

• Production of high quality Kubernetes releases on a reliable schedule
• Ensure there is a consistent group of community members in place to support the release process
• Provide guidance and tooling to facilitate the production of automated releases
• Serve as a tightly integrated partner with other SIGs to empower SIGs to integrate their repositories into the release process

Join us!

• Google group
• Slack channel
• Events and meetings calendar
• Meeting agenda and notes (read-only archive)

Responsibilities

• Ensuring high quality Kubernetes releases
  • Define and staff release roles to manage the resolution of release blocking criteria
  • Define and drive development processes (e.g. merge queues, cherrypicks) and release processes (e.g. burndown meetings, cutting beta releases) with the intent of meeting the release schedule
  • Manage the creation of release specific artifacts including
    • Code branches
    • Binary distributions
    • Release notes
• Continually improving release and development processes
  • Work closely with SIG Contributor Experience to define and build tools to facilitate release process (e.g. dashboards)
  • Work with downstream communities responsible for packaging Kubernetes releases
  • Work with other SIGs to agree upon the responsibilities of their SIG with respect to the release
  • Define and collect metrics related to the release in order to measure progress over each release
• Collaboration with downstream communities which build artifacts from Kubernetes releases
  • Ensure the appropriate level of integration with publishing the OSS build artifacts

Release Team

Several of the responsibilities of SIG Release are discharged by the Release Team, a subproject of SIG Release. Explicit details on each of the roles can be found in the Release Team subproject directory.