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Technical Oversight Committee (TOC)

CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC)

The CNCF TOC is the technical governing body of the CNCF Foundation. It admits and oversees all projects in the CNCF Foundation and has a mandate to facilitate driving neutral consensus for:

  • defining and maintaining the technical vision for the Cloud Native Computing Foundation,
  • approving new projects within the scope for CNCF set by the Governing Board, and create a conceptual architecture for the projects,aligning projects, removing or archiving projects,
  • accepting feedback from end user committee and map to projects,
  • aligning interfaces to components under management (code reference implementations before standardizing), and defining common practices to be implemented across CNCF projects, if any.

Members

  • Jonathan Boulle (term: 3 years - start date: 1/29/2016)
  • Bryan Cantrill (term: 3 years - start date: 1/29/2016)
  • Camille Fournier (term: 3 years - start date: 1/29/2016)
  • Brian Grant (term: 2 years - start date: 3/17/2016)
  • Benjamin Hindman (term: 3 years - start date: 1/29/2016)
  • Solomon Hykes (term: 2 years - start date: 3/17/2016)
  • Sam Lambert (term: 16 months - start date: 10/2/2017)
  • Ken Owens (term: 3 years - start date: 1/29/2016)
  • Alexis Richardson (term: 3 years - start date: 1/29/2016)

Election schedule

Mailing List

cncf-toc@lists.cncf.io: https://ponymail.cncf.io/list.html?cncf-toc@lists.cncf.io

To join: https://lists.cncf.io/mailman/listinfo/cncf-toc

Voting

In various situations the CNCF TOC shall hold a vote. These votes can happen on the phone, email, or via a voting service, when appropriate. TOC members can either respond "agree, yes, +1", "disagree, no, -1", or "abstain". A vote passes with two-thirds vote of votes cast based on the charter (see 6(c)(viii)). An abstain vote equals not voting at all.

Working Groups

The TOC has created the following working groups to investigate and discuss the following topics:

Working Group Chair Meeting Time Minutes/Recordings
CI Camille Fournier 2nd and 4th Tue every month at 8AM PT Youtube
Networking Ken Owens 1st and 3rd Tue every month at 9AM PT Youtube
Serverless Ken Owens Thu of every week at 9AM PT Youtube
Storage Ben Hindman 2nd and 4th Wed every month at 8AM PT Youtube

All meetings are on the public CNCF calendar: https://goo.gl/eyutah

Meeting Time

The TOC meets on the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of every month at 8AM PT (USA Pacific):

https://zoom.us/j/263858603

Or Telephone:

Dial: +1 646 558 8656 (US Toll) or +1 408 638 0968 (US Toll)

+1 855 880 1246 (US Toll Free) +1 877 369 0926 (US Toll Free)

Meeting ID: 263 858 603 International numbers available: https://zoom.us/zoomconference?m=ddKUsXGa2tGOHvCl4ccI0juqU7TZaCov

Here is a public Google calendar you can add the meetings to your calendar: https://goo.gl/eyutah

NOTE: Please use *6 to mute/un-mute your phone during the call

Here is a link to a World Time Zone Converter here http://www.thetimezoneconverter.com/?t=8:00%20a.m.%20&tz=San%20Francisco&

Projects

Project Sponsor TOC Deck Accepted Maturity Level
Kubernetes Alexis Richardson N/A 3/10/16 Graduated
Prometheus Alexis Richardson 3/4/16 5/9/16 Incubating
OpenTracing Bryan Cantrill 8/17/16 10/11/16 Incubating
Fluentd Brian Grant 8/3/16 11/8/16 Incubating
Linkerd Jonathan Boulle 10/5/16 1/23/17 Inception
gRPC Brian Grant 10/19/16 2/16/17 Incubating
CoreDNS Jonathan Boulle 8/17/16 2/27/17 Incubating
containerd Brian Grant 3/15/17 3/29/17 Incubating
rkt Brian Grant 3/15/17 3/29/17 Incubating
CNI Ken Owens 5/3/17 5/23/17 Incubating
Envoy Alexis Richardson 8/15/17 9/13/17 Incubating
Jaeger Bryan Cantrill 8/1/17 9/13/17 Incubating
Notary Solomon Hykes 6/20/17 10/24/17 Incubating
TUF Solomon Hykes 6/20/17 10/24/17 Incubating
rook Ben Hindman 6/6/17 1/29/18 Inception
Vitess Brian Grant 4/19/17 2/5/18 Incubating
NATS Alexis Richardson 9/21/16 3/15/18 Incubating

Website Guidelines

CNCF has the following guidelines for the websites of our projects.

Scheduled Community Presentations

If you're interested in presenting at a TOC call about your project, please open a github issue with the request. We can schedule a maximum of two community presentations per TOC meeting.

  • May 4th, 2016: Prometheus (overview): Fabian Reinartz, Julius Volz
  • August 3rd, 2016: Fluentd (overview): Kiyoto Tamura / Heron (overview): Karthik Ramasamy / Minio (overview): Anand Babu Periasamy
  • August 17th, 2016: CoreDNS (overview) (proposal): Miek Gieben / OpenTracing (overview): Ben Sigelman
  • September 7th, 2016: CockroachDB (overview): Spencer Kimball
  • September 21st, 2016: NATS (overview): Larry McQueary and Brian Flannery
  • October 5th, 2016: Zipkin (overview): Adrian Cole / linkerd (overview): Oliver Gould and William Morgan
  • October 19th, 2016: gRPC (overview): Varun Talwar
  • December 7th, 2016: Pachyderm (overview) by Joe Doliner / rexray/libstorage (overview)
  • January 4th, 2017: Traefik (overview) by Emile Vauge / fission (overview) by Soam Vasani
  • January 18th, 2017: CoreDNS Redux by John Belamric + Miek Gieben / CNI + Azure by Deepak Bansal
  • Feb 1st, 2017: libStorage/CSI (overview) Redux by Clinton Kitson / GitLab (overview) by Sid Sijbrandij
  • Feb 15, 2017: (F2F at Open Source Leadership Summit 2017)
  • March 1, 2017: Zuul v3 (overview) by Clint Byrum
  • March 15, 2017: Heron Redux (overview) by Karthik Ramasamy / containerd (overview) by Michael Crosby / rkt (overview) by Jon Boulle
  • April 19, 2017: Vitess and wg-networking update
  • May 3, 2017: CNI / Hyperd + runv by Harry Zhang
  • May 16, 2017: Serverless WG Proposal
  • June 6, 2017: rook by Bassam Tabbara and InfraKit
  • June 20, 2017: OpenMetrics by Richard Hartmann and Notary/TUF
  • July 11, 2017: CNCF TOC Backlog Review
  • August 1, 2017: Jaeger and Serverless WG Readout
  • August 15, 2017: Envoy by Matt Klein and CI WG Readout
  • September 5, 2017: gluster-kubernetes and Storage WG readout
  • September 19, 2017: TBD
  • October 3, 2017: NATS.io revisited
  • October 17, 2017: TOC Principles / GB (Todd Moore) and OpenMetrics Update
  • November 7, 2017: Istio, SPIFFE.io and Serverless WG
  • November 14, 2017: OPA and Storage WG/CSI and Project Graduation/Health Reviews (Kubernetes, Prometheus)
  • December 5, 2017: Rook, OpenOverlay
  • December 7, 2017: KubeCon/CloudNativeCon F2F
  • January 16, 2018: CSI/Storage WG Readout
  • Feb 6, 2018: NATS
  • Feb 20, 2018: Sandbox + CoreDNS Inception Project Review
  • Mar 6, 2018: Sandbox + Graduation Reviews + Working Group Process
  • Mar 20, 2018: New Sandbox Projects + Working Group Process
  • Apr 3, 2018: CNCF CI WG: Cross Cloud CI + Working Group Process
  • Apr 17, 2018: Telepresence + SAFE Working Group Proposal
  • May 1, 2018: CloudNativeCon/KubeCon Copenhagen (may skip)
  • May 15, 2018: (interested presenters contact cra@linuxfoundation.org or open up a github issue

Meeting Minutes