Taking the Helm: Becoming a Maintainer
summary
Helm is a six‑year‑old Kubernetes package manager now midway through Helm 3 with Helm 4 a year or two away; core priorities are stabilizing features, moving OCI registry support out of experimental, and scaling maintainership. Concrete entry points include fixing issues labeled good first issue, contributing docs/translations, or using the testing tools such as chart-testing (ct) and the maintained github actions to add CI workflows. The project runs HIPs for large changes and prefers plugins or extensions for niche features.
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chapters (4)
- 0:00Start
- 7:24Best Practices around Ci Cd and Helm Charts
- 30:26How Do You Submit a Pr
- 31:55Documentation Prs
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