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Helm Maintainers

This document explains the leadership structure of the Kubernetes Helm project, and list the current project maintainers.

What is a Maintainer?

(Unabashedly stolen from the Docker project)

There are different types of maintainers, with different responsibilities, but all maintainers have 3 things in common:

  1. They share responsibility in the project's success.
  2. They have made a long-term, recurring time investment to improve the project.
  3. They spend that time doing whatever needs to be done, not necessarily what is the most interesting or fun.

Types of Maintainers

The Helm project includes two types of official maintainers: maintainers and core maintainers.

Helm Maintainers

Helm maintainers are developers who have commit access to the Helm repository. The duties of a maintainer include:

  • Classify and respond to GitHub issues and review pull requests
  • Perform code reviews
  • Shape the Helm roadmap and lead efforts to accomplish roadmap milestones
  • Participate actively in feature development and bug fixing
  • Answer questions and help users
  • Participate in planning meetings

Helm Core Maintainers

In addition to the duties of a Maintainer, Helm Core Maintainers also:

  • Coordinate planning meetings
  • Triage GitHub issues for milestone planning
  • Escalate emergency issues (broken builds, security flaws) outside of the normal planning process

The current core maintainers of Helm:

Project Planning

The Helm team holds regular planning meetings to set the project direction, milestones, and relative prioritization of issues. Planning meetings are coordinated via the #Helm room in the Kubernetes Slack.

In order to solicit feedback from the community, planning meetings are run in public whenever possible.

Becoming a Maintainer

Generally, potential maintainers are selected by the existing core maintainers based in part on the following criteria:

  • Sustained contributions to the project over a period of time (usually months)
  • A willingness to help users on GitHub and in the #Helm Slack room
  • A friendly attitude

The Helm core maintainers must unanimously agree before inviting a community member to join as a maintainer, although in many cases the candidate has already been acting in the capacity of a maintainer for some time, and has been consulted on issues, pull requests, etc.