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SIG Governance

In order to standardize Special Interest Group efforts, create maximum transparency, and route contributors to the appropriate SIG, SIGs should follow the guidelines stated below:

  • Create a charter and have it approved according to the SIG charter process
  • Meet regularly, at least for 30 minutes every 3 weeks, except November and December
  • Keep up-to-date meeting notes, linked from the SIG's page in the community repo
  • Announce meeting agenda and minutes after each meeting, on their SIG mailing list
  • Record SIG meeting and make it publicly available
  • Ensure the SIG's mailing list and slack channel are archived
  • Report activity in the weekly community meeting at least once every 6 weeks
  • Participate in release planning meetings and retrospectives, and burndown meetings, as needed
  • Ensure related work happens in a project-owned github org and repository, with code and tests explicitly owned and supported by the SIG, including issue triage, PR reviews, test-failure response, bug fixes, etc.
  • Use the above forums as the primary means of working, communicating, and collaborating, as opposed to private emails and meetings

In addition, SIGs have the following responsibilities to SIG PM:

  • identify SIG annual roadmap
  • identify all SIG features in the current release
  • actively track / maintain SIG features within k/features
  • attend SIG PM meetings, as needed / requested

SIG Roles

Defining SIG Roles is a function of the SIG Charter. Guidelines for drafting a SIG Charter can be found here.

SIG creation and maintenance procedure

Prerequisites

  • Work with the Steering Committee to scope the SIG and get provisional approval. Follow the SIG charter process to propose and obtain approval for a charter.
  • Ask a repo maintainer to create a github label, if one doesn't already exist: sig/foo
  • Request a new kubernetes.slack.com channel (#sig-foo) from @parispittman or @castrojo. New users can join at slack.kubernetes.io.
  • Organize video meetings as needed. No need to wait for the Weekly Community Video Conference to discuss. Please report summary of SIG activities there.
  • Request a Zoom account by emailing Paris Pittman([email protected]) and Jorge Castro([email protected]). You must set up a google group (see below) for the SIG leads so that all the SIG leads have the ability to reset the password if necessary.
  • Read how to use YouTube for publishing your videos to the Kubernetes channel.
  • Calendars
    1. Create a calendar on your own account. Make it public.
    2. Share it with all SIG leads with full ownership of the calendar - they can edit, rename, or even delete it.
    3. Share it with [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], with full ownership. This is just in case SIG leads ever disappear.
    4. Share it with the SIG mailing list, lowest privileges.
    5. Share individual events with [email protected] to publish on the universal calendar.
  • Use existing proposal and PR process (to be documented)
  • Announce new SIG on [email protected]
  • Leads should subscribe to the kubernetes-sig-leads mailing list
  • Submit a PR to add a row for the SIG to the table in the kubernetes/community README.md file, to create a kubernetes/community directory, and to add any SIG-related docs, schedules, roadmaps, etc. to your new kubernetes/community/SIG-foo directory.

Discussion Platforms

Your SIG needs a place to discuss topics asynchronously. You have two options, a traditional mailing list via Google Groups, or a category on discuss.kubernetes.io. The main difference is Groups is primarily email-based with a web UI tacked on, and Discuss is primarily a Web UI with email tacked-on. The other difference is that your SIG/WG is responsible for moderating your Google Group; with discuss you just depend on the usual community moderation.

  • Working Groups, due to their temporary nature, are strongly encouraged to consider using an existing SIG mailing list if appropriate, otherwise use a discuss category for less management overhead.
  • SIGs, due to their usage of calendars, and Zoom accounts, are strongly encouraged to use a traditional mailing list.

Choose one:

Create a Category

Post a message asking for a category in the Site Feedback and Help section and a moderator will create your category for you and provide you with a URL and mail address to post to.

Creating a Google Group

Create a Google Group at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!creategroup, following the procedure:

Each SIG must have two discussion groups with the following settings.

  • kubernetes-sig-foo (the discussion group):
    • Anyone can view content.
    • Anyone can join.
    • Moderate messages from non-members of the group.
    • Only members can view the list of members.
  • kubernetes-sig-foo-leads (list for the leads, to be used with Zoom and Calendars)
    • Only members can view group content.
    • Anyone can apply to join.
    • Moderate messages from non-members of the group.
    • Only members can view the list of members.
  • Groups should be created as e-mail lists with at least three owners (including parispittman at google.com and [email protected] and [email protected])
  • To add the owners, visit the Group Settings (drop-down menu on the right side), select Direct Add Members on the left side and add Paris, Jorge and Ihor via email address (with a suitable welcome message); in Members/All Members select Paris, Jorge, and Ihor and assign to an "owner role"
  • Set "View topics", "Post", "Join the Group" permissions to be "Public";

Familiarize yourself with the moderation guidelines for the project. Chairs should be cognizant that a new group will require an initial time investment moderation-wise as the group establishes itself.