DTR Working Group Proposal

angellk commented 3 months ago

I would like to help lead the new cross-TAG Domain Technical Reviews Working Group per the KubeCon EU TOC/TAG session, March 20. Thank you to @TheFoxAtWork for the notes on DTRs.

Note: This is intended to be a long term working group.

Why a Domain Technical Review?

The primary objectives of a Domain Technical Review (DTR) are to ensure the overall quality and robustness of the project, identify any potential weaknesses or areas for improvement, and provide actionable feedback to the project maintainers. This process helps maintain the high standards of excellence associated with CNCF projects and fosters innovation and collaboration within the cloud native ecosystem.

Who is involved in a Domain Technical Review

A Domain Technical Review (DTR) is a collaboration between a project, one or more CNCF Technical Advisory Groups (TAGs) and the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC).

The DTR Working Group should have a representative from each TAG to inform the DTR guidelines - as well as CNCF TOC represention.

What is a Domain Technical Review

A Domain Technical Review is an engagement by the project and the TAG(s) to fully explore the project in the context of cloud native and the specific domain(s). The Domain Technical Review is to be a comprehensive assessment of a project aimed at evaluating, within the CNCF ecosystem:

The domain specific technical merits of the project
Cloud native design principles
Adherence to domain specific best practices

What are the goals the DTR Working Group

Provide well structured guidance for the DTR that provides consistency across the TAGs
Identify the domain specific best practices that inform the DTRs - in collaboration with the CNCF TAG(s) and CNCF TOC
Avoid presentations by projects without active discussion or feedback from TAG expertise to improve and align the project with CNCF practices

What are the non-goals of the DTR Working Group

To be determined by the working group and approved by the TOC

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TheFoxAtWork commented 3 months ago

Thanks @angellk ! Would you write up the scope of the DTR effort so others interested in it understand what we're looking to cover here? adding this to the Issue title and primary comment? I've assigned you the issue.

TheFoxAtWork commented 2 months ago

@angellk checking in here wrt updating this issue for the group?

raravena80 commented 2 months ago

Thanks for the proposal! In relation with this issue https://github.com/cncf/toc/issues/1279 Should we also specify that this is intended to be a long lived Working Group?

srust commented 2 months ago

I can help and join this working group on behalf of TAG-Runtime. Thanks for organizing!

nicholasjackson commented 2 months ago

Happy to help on behalf of TAG-Network.

PushkarJ commented 2 months ago

Raising my hand ✋🏼 from TAG Security. Will eventually hand it off to one of our terrific tech leads

alolita commented 2 months ago

Hi Folks - I am interested in contributing to the DTR working group from TAG Observability.

angellk commented 2 months ago

It looks like we have quorum! I'll set up the kick-off meeting and invite you all.

leonardpahlke commented 2 months ago

Happy to join too - TAG Environmental Sustainability

angellk commented 2 months ago

Please join the #wg-dtr slack channel on CNCF slack - we'll coordinate the kick-off meeting there!

bavarianbidi commented 2 months ago

:wave: on behalf of End-User TAB

angellk commented 1 month ago

Thank you everyone for the continued momentum with the DTRs.

Please comment and review on the General Technical Questions document.

Starting this week we have been going into deeper technical domain reviews: Storage and Security

Next week: Runtimes and TBD

Please check the slack channel for questions/updates/meeting times.

anvega commented 2 weeks ago

It would be great to highlight that DTRs help make the process timeline more predictable for projects moving through stages. In a certain way, this helps projects prepare a stronger case, and recruits people in the DTR as champions for the project.

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