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

[Itamar Holder]

Thanks Lee!

Definitely sounds valuable to me.

If budget is a barrier here, I think that online meetups would also be great (although obviously in-person meetups are always better).

As you said, Kubevirt Summit is great, but it's more of a presentation event than a place to have friendly conversations with quick updates and throwing ideas around for conversation. I also think that for newbies this might serve as a good place to get involved, ask questions and suggest crazy ideas.

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[Lee Yarwood]

On Wed, 21 Aug 2024 at 07:50, Itamar Holder <iho...@redhat.com> wrote:

Thanks Lee!

Definitely sounds valuable to me.

If budget is a barrier here, I think that online meetups would also be great (although obviously in-person meetups are always better).

As you said, Kubevirt Summit is great, but it's more of a presentation event than a place to have friendly conversations with quick updates and throwing ideas around for conversation. I also think that for newbies this might serve as a good place to get involved, ask questions and suggest crazy ideas.

Thanks Itamar,

Happy to see you back online!

Yes this would most likely be virtual in nature unless budget suddenly became available but I don't think that's a huge loss for this type of event and allows for wider participation if anything.

Fully agree that this is also a useful way for folks to onboard into the project and get a sense of the upcoming work they might be able to help with.

I'll try to move this idea forward with the maintainers group for release-1.5 in the coming weeks but if others have comments please feel free to chime in!

Cheers,

Lee

[Andrew Burden]

Hey folks,

Thanks for bringing this up, Lee. It's a great idea.

For those that weren't at this week's Community meeting, this also seems like a good opportunity for SIGs to discuss their 1.5 roadmap, which can then help focus priorities for PR reviews.

I very much like the idea of an unconference/self-coordination. How about we put a couple of blocks of time into the KubeVirt calendar around the end of October? I think we can do a lot with zoom and googledocs but I'll see what else we get through the CNCF that might be useful.

Cheers,

Andrew

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[Lee Yarwood]

On Fri, 20 Sept 2024 at 16:50, Andrew Burden <abu...@redhat.com> wrote:

Hey folks,

Thanks for bringing this up, Lee. It's a great idea.

For those that weren't at this week's Community meeting, this also seems like a good opportunity for SIGs to discuss their 1.5 roadmap, which can then help focus priorities for PR reviews.

I very much like the idea of an unconference/self-coordination. How about we put a couple of blocks of time into the KubeVirt calendar around the end of October? I think we can do a lot with zoom and googledocs but I'll see what else we get through the CNCF that might be useful.

Thanks Andrew!

Yeah a few zoom slots and some kind of shared doc (etherpad has always been my preferred tool for these meetings) per participating SIG would be a great starting point with v1.5.0. If there's anything I can do to help organise this let me know!

Cheers,

Lee