SIG-Scheduling 2020 Annual Report

Author: Huang-Wei

sig-scheduling/2020-annual-report.md

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+# 2020 SIG-Scheduling Annual Report
+
+## Operational
+
+**How are you doing with operational tasks in [sig-governance.md]?**
+    
+- **Is your README accurate? have a CONTRIBUTING.md file?**  
+    Yes. Developer-oriented guides are under [contributors/devel/sig-scheduling].
+
+- **All subprojects correctly mapped and listed in [sigs.yaml]?**  
+    Yes.
+
+- **What's your meeting culture? Large/small, active/quiet, learnings? 
+Meeting notes up to date? Are you keeping recordings up to date/trends 
+in community members watching recordings?**  
+    Our meetings tends to be small and quiet. The agenda usually consists of items suggested
+    by users, and debatable items that need a consensus during issues/PR reviews.
+    The meeting notes and recordings are up to date.
+
+**How does the group get updates, reports, or feedback from subprojects? Are there any 
+springing up or being retired? Are OWNERS files up to date in these areas?**
+
+Owners from (active) subprojects introduce the latest development, and sometime demonstrate
+cool features.
+OWNER files in k/k are not that up to date. We may need a cleanup.
+
+**When was your last monthly community-wide update? (provide link to deck and/or recording)**
+
+Aug 20, 2020. [Slides] & [Recording].
+
+[Slides]: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1H27SDMqkzq8zCRveWWtK5g9hCAomKbrzTTVZ5r4h6Xo/edit
+[Recording]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDL3Kp5-9eM&feature=youtu.be
+
+## Membership
+
+**Are all listed SIG leaders (chairs, tech leads, and subproject owners) active?**
+
+Yes, except for inactive subprojects.
+
+**How do you measure membership? By mailing list members, OWNERs, or something else?**
+
+We don't have an official way of measuring membership, there is some churn in the number of active 
+members and so membership is hard to keep track of.
+
+**How does the group measure reviewer and approver bandwidth? Do you need help in any area now?
+ What are you doing about it?**
+
+PRs are usually directed to the reviewer most familiar with the code base the PR is modifying.
+We don't quite measure bandwidth, but one way of doing that is by looking at pending PRs broken
+by assignment.
+
+**Is there a healthy onboarding and growth path for contributors in your SIG? What are some 
+activities that the group does to encourage this? What programs are you participating in to 
+grow contributors throughout the contributor ladder?**
+
+There is no official onboarding process. One thing we try to do frequently is breaking up 
+larger features into smaller enough tasks for new members to contribute.
+
+**What programs do you participate in for new contributors?**
+
+Currently we don't.
+
+**Does the group have contributors from multiple companies/affiliations? Can end users/companies 
+contribute in some way that they currently are not?**
+
+Yes.
+
+## Current initiatives and project health
+
+**What are initiatives that should be highlighted, lauded, shout out, that your group is proud of?
+ Currently underway? What are some of the longer tail projects that your group is working on?**
+
+- Initiatives:
+    - Focusing on turning the scheduler into a pluggable framework to allow developing new custom
+     features outside the main repo.
+     [k-sigs/scheduler-plugins] initiated this to build a scheduler plugin ecosystem. It has a wide
+     participation from different companies, by either direct contributions from Alibaba, Tencent,
+     Apple, etc., as well as adoption by companies like [OpenAI].
+    - Improving scheduler performance. We're working on some items like optimizing internal queues,
+     tailored preemption logic, as well as exposing meaningful metrics to help define SLA/SLOs.
+- Longer tail projects:
+    - Continuing to refactor the core code around the scheduling framework.
+    - Graduating the scheduler's ComponentConfig to GA.
+
+**Year to date KEP work review: What's now stable? Beta? Alpha? Road to alpha?**
+
+- Alpha
+    - [Prefer Nominated Node]
+    - [Node Resource Strategy]
+    - [Pod Affinity Namespace Selector]
+    - [Volume Capacity Priority] (co-owned by sig-storage)
+- Beta
+    - [Default topology spread] (will graduate with CC)
+    - [Multi Scheduling Profiles]
+    - [Non-preempting priority class]
+    - [Component Config]
+
+**What areas and/or subprojects does the group need the most help with?**
+
+- **Docs improvement**:
+    - developer oriented docs to understand more details of scheduler internals, so that they can come
+    up with k8s-scheduler-native extensions to fit their business needs
+    - user or cluster-admin oriented docs to make the most of scheduler, like best practices and tips
+    that are not documented well
+- **Standardize issue triage process**:
+
+**What's the average open days of a PR and Issue in your group? What metrics does your group care about and/or measure?**
+
+We haven't started leveraging devstat data or Github board to get a high-level picture of PR/Issue.
+
+[sig-governance.md]: https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/committee-steering/governance/sig-governance.md
+[contributors/devel/sig-scheduling]: https://github.com/kubernetes/community/tree/master/contributors/devel/sig-scheduling
+[sigs.yaml]: https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/sig-list.md
+[k-sigs/scheduler-plugins]: https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/scheduler-plugins
+
+[Prefer Nominated Node]: https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/tree/master/keps/sig-scheduling/1923-prefer-nominated-node
+[Node Resource Strategy]: https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/tree/master/keps/sig-scheduling/2458-node-resource-score-strategy
+[Pod Affinity Namespace Selector]: https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/tree/master/keps/sig-scheduling/2249-pod-affinity-namespace-selector
+[Volume Capacity Priority]: https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/tree/master/keps/sig-storage/1845-prioritization-on-volume-capacity
+[Default topology spread]: https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/tree/master/keps/sig-scheduling/1258-default-pod-topology-spread
+[Multi Scheduling Profiles]: https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/tree/master/keps/sig-scheduling/1451-multi-scheduling-profiles
+[Non-preempting priority class]: https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/tree/master/keps/sig-scheduling/902-non-preempting-priorityclass
+[Component Config]: https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/tree/master/keps/sig-scheduling/785-scheduler-component-config-api
+
+[OpenAI]: https://openai.com/blog/scaling-kubernetes-to-7500-nodes/#gangscheduling