community/sig-contribx

#SIG Contributor Experience

We need your help!!!

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, we need to break the commit-rate ceiling we hit in July 2015, and we need to get the monotonically growing PR merge latency and numbers of open PRs and issues under control.

##Meeting:

• Meetings: Wednesdays 9:30AM PST (biweekly and changing soon)
• Zoom Link: https://zoom.us/j/7658488911
• Check out the Agenda and Minutes!

##Goals:

• Ensure contributors are happy and productive.
• Owns project PR and issue automation.
• Help people get involved in the kubernetes community.

##Organizers:

• Garrett Rodrigues grod@google.com, @grodrigues3, Google

##Issues:

• Detailed backlog
• velocity-improvement issues
• Too many notifications, which are insufficiently targeted and have too little context, as well as missing notifications for important events
• Too-coarse ACLs
• Inadequate PR reviewer assignment and processes, with too small a reviewer pool
• Lack of a sustainable approach to issue management (we have thousands of open issues, with over 100 new ones each week)
• Lack of processes for growing leadership within the community
• Trying to maintain a large monorepo in github, which is intended for small repos and teams
• Insufficient project-wide (cross-SIG) communication and coordination
  • Need to make slackarchive more discoverable
• Too many flaky tests
• Excessive PR rebases due to checking in generated files
• Inadequate and out-of-date contributor documentation