SIG Contributor Experience Deep Dive
summary
Kubernetes reports 73,000 contributors with ~10,000 new in the last year and uses concrete programs to onboard and scale work: six group mentoring cohorts just kicked off, shadow programs and a third‑party mentorship coordinator run regularly, and a contributor site and “caps” search sit at alpha. GitHub automation includes an approved_2 plugin for file‑level approvals and new membership automation, and an elections tool Electro (Python/Flask) runs end‑to‑end via Git metadata and already improves election velocity.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Start
- 6:33Mentoring Prereq - The ladder
- 10:48GitHub Management - Introduction
- 11:41GitHub Management - Updates
- 12:54Community Management
- 16:09YouTube Moderation
- 18:11Contributor Comms
- 22:01Elections
- 24:53Contributors Documentation
- 32:01Tips on your first SIG Meeting
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