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+# Backlog
+
+## SIG-related
+
+* Change meeting day?
+* Improve charter to meet expectations of Steering Committee
+* Clarify criteria for areas out of scope for the SIG
+* Formalize decision processes
+
+## Processes
+
+* Proposal process
+* API review process
+* Determine initial reviewers and approvers
+* [Branching policy](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/issues/566)
+
+## Technical issues and conventions
+
+* Events
+* Component config field deprecation
+* [Well known labels](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/kubernetes-sig-architecture/PEp7NqWuFpw)
+* [Conditions and phase](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/7856)
+* ["v2 API" plan](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/8190)
+
+## Documentation
+
+* [Architectural diagram](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/issues/767)
+* [Clean up design-proposals directory](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/issues/651)
+* [Organize design-proposals by area](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/issues/918)
+* Document who owns client library, build, and release artifacts
+* Document who owns conformance definition, profiles, etc.
+
+## Conformance
+
+* [Umbrella](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/issues/432)
+* At some point, we need to approve of scope, profiles, required APIs/features/behaviors, etc.