Contributing
Great to See You!
Whether you're a previous contributor or a first timer looking to get involved, we love it when the community comes together to improve the project!
In this "contributing" section we document processes we follow as a project, and include some details on how to build, test and run cert-manager for development purposes.
Meetings
All cert-manager meetings are open to everyone; whether you have a question, a suggestion, or just want to chat, you're welcome to join. Register using the links below to receive an invitation:
| Meeting Name | Description | When | Link to register |
|---|---|---|---|
| Daily Check-In (EMEA and APAC) | A quick daily stand-up to sync on work and blockers | About 3 times a week at 10:30 London time | Register here |
| Weekly Community (US and EMEA) | A weekly meeting for the community to discuss progress and plans | Thursdays at 17:00 London time | Register here |
See all upcoming meetings in your local time on the calendar page.
🔰 All of our meetings happen on London (UK) time; you can add London to the world clocks on your phone to avoid confusion!
When daylight savings time changes in London might be different to when it changes for you if you live in a place that either doesn't have DST or which changes on a different schedule like North America or Australia!
Daily Check-In
Our daily check-in meetings happen on Zoom at 10:30 London time. The exact days for which the standup is happening can be seen on the calendar page and may change.
The format is a 5 minute social chat, followed by a quick round-robin status report and ending with any longer form talking points.
The status report is a stand-up where we talk about work done yesterday, work coming up and highlight any blockers. We'll try to keep to a strict time limit during these status reports of around 1 minute per person.
Please don't be offended if someone steps in when you run out of time and moves the reports along to the next person – the idea is for everyone to be succinct so it's clear what's being worked on and who is blocked.
We finish with talking points, which are open-ended discussions on any topic related to cert-manager or its sub-projects. We'll look to ensure that anyone outside of the core maintainer team who has a talking point goes first.
Community Meetings
The cert-manager weekly community meeting happens on Zoom at 17:00 London time on Thursdays.
You can look at the calendar to see when the next one will take place.
These meetings are an hour-long chat about cert-manager topics. It's a great way to get involved with contributing for the first time; to get answers to any questions you might have; or to propose a new feature which needs some explanation.
If you want to discuss something, please add it to the meeting notes before the meeting. The meeting chair will try to get to everything that was on the notes before the meeting started.
We record these meetings and put them on YouTube so they can be checked later – if you don't want to appear on video please keep your camera off!
Slack
Join our Slack channels to connect with the cert-manager community.
Step 1: Join Kubernetes Slack
You need to join the Kubernetes Slack Workspace. Click the link to request an invitation if you are not already a member.
Step 2: Join cert-manager Channels
Once you have access to Kubernetes Slack, you can search for and join the following channels:
#cert-manager: A channel for all users of cert-manager; use this for any usage-related questions.#cert-manager-dev: Dedicated to collaboration between cert-manager contributors and maintainers. Please use this channel for code-related questions only.
Issues and Pull Requests
If you are looking for help understanding our issue and pull request usage, then please review the contributing flow page.
