Kubernetes Community Meeting Notes - 20160211

February 11th - Pangaea Demo, #AWS SIG formed, release automation and documentation team introductions. 1.2 update and planning 1.3.

The Kubernetes contributing community meets most Thursdays at 10:00PT to discuss the project's status via videoconference. Here are the notes from the latest meeting.

Note taker: Rob Hirschfeld

  • Demo: Pangaea [Shahidh K Muhammed, Tanmai Gopal, and Akshaya Acharya]

    • Microservices packages
    • Focused on Application developers
    • Demo at recording +4 minutes
    • Single node kubernetes cluster — runs locally using Vagrant CoreOS image
    • Single user/system cluster allows use of DNS integration (unlike Compose)
    • Can run locally or in cloud
    • SIG Report:
      • Release Automation and an introduction to David McMahon
      • Docs and k8s website redesign proposal and an introduction to John Mulhausen
      • This will allow the system to build docs correctly from GitHub w/ minimal effort
      • Will be check-in triggered
      • Getting website style updates
      • Want to keep authoring really light
      • There will be some automated checks
      • Next week: preview of the new website during the community meeting

  • [@goltermann] 1.2 Release Watch (time +34 minutes)

    • code slush * no major features or refactors accepted
    • discussion about release criteria: we will hold release date for bugs

  • Testing flake surge is over (one time event and then maintain test stability)

  • 1.3 Planning (time +40 minutes)

    • working to cleanup the GitHub milestones — they should be a source of truth. you can use GitHub for bug reporting
    • push off discussion while 1.2 crunch is under
    • Framework
      • dates
      • prioritization
      • feedback
    • Design Review meetings
    • General discussion about the PRD process — still at the beginning states
    • Working on a contributor conference
    • Rob suggested tracking relationships between PRD/Mgmr authors
    • PLEASE DO REVIEWS — talked about the way people are authorized to +2 reviews.

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The full recording is available on YouTube in the growing archive of Kubernetes Community Meetings.