Do we need an online contributor summit style event per KubeVirt dev cycle?

[Lee Yarwood]

Hello all,

I've been thinking about $subject recently and even spoke to a few
lucky contributors about it at devconf a few weeks ago.

IMHO some form of contributor summit aligned with the start of a
KubeVirt development cycle (so now for v1.4.0) would be hugely
beneficial for the community. I believe it would provide a place for
folks to draw up plans for the upcoming development cycle, align work
across projects and hopefully lead to less of a pile on around feature
freeze.

The actual style of the contributor summit is up for debate but I'd
strongly recommend avoiding the presentation led style of KubeVirt
summit that I feel fits a different but valid purpose to a contributor
summit.

Given my background with OpenStack I think a more unconference style
approach like the PTGs [1] hosted by the OpenInfra foundation would be
ideal.

Thoughts appreciated on this, hopefully others feel this would be
useful as well and might be something we could put in place for the
v1.5.0 cycle?

Lee

[1] https://openinfra.dev/ptg/

[Lee Yarwood]

I somehow forgot that I had raised this and a few other ideas last
year [2] on the ML, can't think why given the year I've had personally
:) . Anyway apologies for not reusing that thread but hopefully this
is still a valid suggestion in 2024.

[2] https://groups.google.com/g/kubevirt-dev/c/3UkU55FM4pA/m/vndTxl58AAAJ

[Felix Matouschek]

Hi Lee,

I thought of something similar not too long ago, so I very much welcome
this proposal.

I agree with you that it should not end up in monologue style
presentations. Maybe we could try to summarize new features in a few
slides (1-2) and have a discussion about it?

For 1.4.0 it is too late, but for 1.5.0 we could make it work.

Thanks,
Felix