How the Kubernetes Release Process is Different Than Other Open Source Projects | Linux Today

How the Kubernetes Release Process is Different Than Other Open Source Projects

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Sean Michael Kerner
Jul 6, 2018

While Kubernetes releases were originally all led by Google staffers, that has changed in the last two years, with a rigous release management Special Interest Group (SIG) that has mandated that there be a new leader for each release. For the 1.11 release, the role of release lead was held by Red Hat’s Josh Berkus, who is well known in the open-source community for his work helping to lead PostgreSQL database releases.

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