Most community activity is organized into working groups.
Working groups follow the contributing guidelines although each of these groups may operate a little differently depending on their needs and workflow.
When the need arises, a new working group can be created, please post to technical-oversight-committee working group if you think a new group is necessary.
The working groups generate design docs which are kept in a shared Google Drive. Anybody can access the drive for reading and commenting. To get access simply join the istio-team-drive-access@ group. Once you've done that, head to the Community Drive and behold all the docs.
The current working groups are:
| Group | Design Docs | Discussion Forum | Slack Channel | Meeting Notes | Meeting Link | Meeting Recordings | Description |
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| Docs | Folder | Forum | #docs | Notes | Hangouts Meet | n/a | User docs, information architecture, istio.io infrastructure |
| Environments | Folder | Forum | #environments | Notes | Hangouts Meet | YouTube | Raw VM support, Hybrid Mesh, Mac/Windows support, Cloud Foundry integration |
| Networking | Folder | Forum | #networking | Notes | Hangouts Meet | YouTube | Traffic Management, TCP Support, Additional L7 protocols, Proxy injection |
| Extensions and Telemetry | Folder | Forum | #extensions-telemetry | Notes | Main Group Hangouts Meet, Wasm SIG Hangout Meet | YouTube | WebAssembly based extensibility, Istio extensions for features such as Rate Limiting, Tracing, Monitoring, Logging |
| Product Security | Folder | Report a vulnerability | Notes | Hangouts Meet | Product Security: Vulnerability, security guidelines, threats | ||
| Security | Folder | Forum | #security | Notes | Hangouts Meet | YouTube | Service-to-service Auth, Identity/CA/SecretStore plugins, Identity Federation, End User Auth, Authority Delegation, Auditing |
| Test and Release | Folder | Forum | #test-and-release | Notes | Hangouts Meet | YouTube | Build, test, release |
| User Experience | UX Config (old) | Forum | #user-experience #config | Notes | WebEx | YouTube | User experience across Istio, API and CLI guidelines and support |
NOTE: Config working group responsibilities have been merged into User Experience.
To join Istio's Slack workspace, please use this link.
There is a weekly combined workgroup meeting. The meetings are open to anyone interested, so please join us. Here are pointers to the Google Doc as well as the Hangouts Meet for the combined workgroup meeting.
There's a number of ways to track the meeting schedule:
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You can view the schedule of upcoming working group meetings in this calendar.
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You can download an ICS file to import the working group meetings into your favorite iCal client.
If you have a Google account, you can also:
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Link the working group event calendar directly to your account.
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Add yourself to the istio-working-group-calendar-invites@ group. This will automatically invite you to all of the working group meetings on your primary Google calendar.
Each working group has one or more leads which coordinate the activities of the group:
| Name | Company | Groups | |
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| Rama Chavali | Salesforce | Networking - Control Plane | |
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Mitch Connors | Aviatrix | User Experience |
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Jacob Delgado | Aspen Mesh | Product Security, Environments |
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John Howard | Networking | |
| Steven Landow | Solo.io | Networking - Control Plane | |
| Lei Tang | Security, Product Security, Extensions and Telemetry | ||
| Shankar Ganesan | Product Security | ||
| Costin Manolache | Environments | ||
| Sam Naser | Environments | ||
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Ed Snible | IBM | User Experience |
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Eric Van Norman | IBM | Test and Release |
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Lizan Zhou | Tetrate | Networking - Data Plane, Security |
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Greg Hanson | Solo.io | Product Security |
| Jianpeng He | Tetrate | Extensions and Telemetry |
If you'd like to reach out to the working group leads, please drop a note to [email protected].