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Prometheus Governance 2.0: A Case-study in Evolving the Governance With Growth - Goutham Veeramachaneni, Grafana Labs
Prometheus joined the CNCF as its second project in 2016, nearly a decade ago. Ever since, the Prometheus governance has been largely the same and served the community well.
Recently, it has become obvious that we need to scale the Prometheus team beyond the current 30 team members. We spent the last year or so, evaluating new governance structures, building consensus and executing on a plan to set the stage for the next decade of innovation.
Going forward, every contributor can become a Prometheus organization member. All members are going to vote for a steering committee. These improvements will enable members and maintainers to grow beyond the current 30 team members to at least 200 or more Prometheus members in the near future.
We will walk you through the existing governance structure, what worked and the challenges we ran into, the potential governance structures we evaluated, resources CNCF provides and tips that other projects can apply when evaluating a new governance.