Karmada graduation dd - #2278
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- Incorporate findings from 4 adopter interview sessions (Bloomberg 3 teams, Trip.com) - Add detailed adoption summaries and cross-interview analysis - Update all sections with interview-corroborated evidence - Resolve all TODOs and placeholder content - Fix grammar and precision issues
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| A governance review was conducted in August 2023 and documented at [governance-review/2023-08-29.md](governance-review/2023-08-29.md). The review identified three must-fix items: inactive maintainers, conflicting OWNERS files, and conflicting Codes of Conduct. Since then, the CoC has been rectified to a single canonical document pointing to the CNCF CoC. The OWNERS file inconsistencies have been raised as a [comment on the DD issue](https://github.com/cncf/toc/issues/1572#issuecomment-4452003587) and should be resolved. | ||
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| However, the inactive maintainer issue remains outstanding: 4 maintainers flagged in 2023 (@mrlihanbo, @carmark, @zoroyouxi, @lfbear) have not been moved to emeritus. A [comment](https://github.com/cncf/toc/issues/1572#issuecomment-4451663241) was made requesting this be addressed. The project should improve the accuracy of their MAINTAINERS.md to reflect actual activity levels. |
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See comments - nice work @chadbeaudin !
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Hi @chadbeaudin @angellk, thank you for the thorough review and valuable feedback! We have created karmada-io/community#217 to track all action items from this review. The blocking issues have been fixed via karmada-io/karmada#7842. We will keep driving the remaining items and roadmap candidates through the tracking issue. Please let us know if anything else is needed from the project side. |
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August 18, 2026 08:57
Incorporates feedback from Karena Angell's PR review: - Emeritus maintainers moved to emeritus in MAINTAINERS.md (resolved) - OWNERS files must be synced to match (now blocking) - Updated Final Assessment, Governance section, and related criteria
Karmada merged karmada-io/karmada#7842 which syncs OWNERS files with MAINTAINERS.md. No blocking items remain.
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Note that the public comment period opened on August 18 for 2 weeks. Thank you @chadbeaudin 🙏 |
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Summary
Adds the Karmada graduation due diligence document with adopter interview findings.
Adopter interviews conducted:
Eight interviewees across three organizations confirmed production deployments at significant scale. All adopters emphasized Karmada's Kubernetes-native API
compatibility and would find removal very difficult.
Related Issue
Relates to #1572 (Karmada graduation application)
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