WORKING-GROUPS.md

Istio Working Groups

Most community activity is organized into working groups.

• Working group meetings
• Working group leads
• Getting in touch

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
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.

Working group meetings

Working groups meet regularly. The meetings are open to anyone interested, so please join us. There's a number of ways to track the meeting schedules:

• You can view the schedule of upcoming working group meetings in this calendar.

• 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:

• Link the working group event calendar directly to your account.

• 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.

Working group leads

Each working group has one or more leads which coordinate the activities of the group:

	Name	Company	Groups
	Brian Avery	Red Hat	Test and Release, Product Security
	Costin Manolache	Google	Environments
	John Howard	Google	Networking
	Mandar Jog	Google	Extensions and Telemetry
	Oliver Liu	Google	Security, Product Security
	Douglas Reid	Google	Extensions and Telemetry
	Ed Snible	IBM	User Experience
	Mitch Connors	Google	User Experience
	Eric Van Norman	IBM	Test and Release
	Limin Wang	Google	Security
	Jacob Delgado	Aspen Mesh	Product Security, Environments
	Lizan Zhou	Tetrate	Networking - Data Plane, Security
	Rama Chavali	Salesforce	Networking - Control Plane
	Sam Naser	Google	Environments
	Steven Landow	Google	Networking - Control Plane

Getting in touch

If you'd like to reach out to the working group leads, please drop a note to [email protected].