The Kpack project extends Kubernetes using custom resources and utilizes unprivileged Kubernetes primitives to provide builds of OCI images as a platform implementation of Cloud Native Buildpacks
This goverance explains how the project is run.
- Values
- Maintainers
- Becoming a Maintainer
- Meetings
- CNCF Resources
- Code of Conduct Enforcement
- Security Response Team
- Voting
- Modifications
The kpack and its leadership embrace the following values:
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Openness: Communication and decision-making happens in the open and is discoverable for future reference. As much as possible, all discussions and work take place in public forums and open repositories.
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Fairness: All stakeholders have the opportunity to provide feedback and submit contributions, which will be considered on their merits.
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Community over Product or Company: Sustaining and growing our community takes priority over shipping code or sponsors' organizational goals. Each contributor participates in the project as an individual.
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Inclusivity: We innovate through different perspectives and skill sets, which can only be accomplished in a welcoming and respectful environment.
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Participation: Responsibilities within the project are earned through participation, and there is a clear path up the contributor ladder into leadership positions.
kpack Maintainers have write access to the kpack GitHub repository. They can merge their own patches (with review from others), or patches from others. The current maintainers can be found in MAINTAINERS.md. Maintainers collectively manage the project's resources and contributors.
This privilege is granted with some expectation of responsibility: maintainers are people who care about the kpack project and want to help it grow and improve. A maintainer is not just someone who can make changes, but someone who has demonstrated their ability to collaborate with the team, get the most knowledgeable people to review code and docs, contribute high-quality code, and follow through to fix issues (in code or tests).
A maintainer is a contributor to the project's success and a citizen helping the project succeed.
The collective team of all Maintainers is known as the Maintainer Council, which is the governing body for the project.
To become a Maintainer you need to demonstrate the following:
- commitment to the project:
- participate in discussions (e.g., working group), contributions, code and documentation reviews for 1 year or more,
- perform reviews for 10 non-trivial pull requests,
- contribute 5 non-trivial pull requests and have them merged,
- ability to write quality code and/or documentation,
- ability to collaborate with the team,
- understanding of how the team works (policies, processes for testing and code review, etc),
- understanding of the project's code base and coding and documentation style.
A new Maintainer must be proposed by an existing maintainer during kpack working group meetings. A simple majority vote of existing Maintainers approves the application. Maintainers nominations will be evaluated without prejudice to employer or demographics.
Maintainers who are selected will be granted the necessary GitHub rights.
Maintainers may resign at any time if they feel that they will not be able to continue fulfilling their project duties.
Maintainers may also be removed after being inactive, failure to fulfill their Maintainer responsibilities, violating the Code of Conduct, or other reasons. Inactivity is defined as a period of very low or no activity in the project for a year or more, with no definite schedule to return to full Maintainer activity.
A Maintainer may be removed at any time by a 2/3 vote of the remaining maintainers.
Depending on the reason for removal, a Maintainer may be converted to Emeritus status. Emeritus Maintainers will still be consulted on some project matters, and can be rapidly returned to Maintainer status if their availability changes.
Time zones permitting, Maintainers are expected to participate in the public developer meeting, which occurs every Tuesday at 10 AM EST. This doc contains the zoom link and notes, along with the recordings of previous meetings.
Maintainers will also have closed meetings in order to discuss security reports or Code of Conduct violations. Such meetings should be scheduled by any Maintainer on receipt of a security issue or CoC report. All current Maintainers must be invited to such closed meetings, except for any Maintainer who is accused of a CoC violation.
Code of Conduct violations by community members will be discussed and resolved in private by the Maintainers
The Maintainers will appoint a Security Response Team to handle security reports. This committee may simply consist of the Maintainer Council themselves. If this responsibility is delegated, the Maintainers will appoint a team of at least two contributors to handle it. The Maintainers will review who is assigned to this at least once a year.
The Security Response Team is responsible for handling all reports of security holes and breaches according to the security policy.
While most business in kpack is conducted by "lazy consensus".
Most votes require a simple majority of all Maintainers to succeed, except where otherwise noted. Two-thirds majority votes mean at least two-thirds of all existing maintainers.
Changes to this Governance and its supporting documents may be approved by a 2/3 vote of the Maintainers.