Request: Role change for Approver

[100mik]

Summary

Raising this PR proposing a change in my role. Since I have been working with the project for a bit now, I would love to help more as an approver for kapp 🙌🏼

GitHub Username

@100mik

Role Requested

• Reviewer
• Approver
• Lead

Applicable Subproject

• carvel-kapp-controller
• carvel-ytt
• carvel-kapp
• carvel-kbld
• carvel-imgpkg
• carvel-vendir
• carvel-secretgen-controller
• kctrl

General Requirements

• I have reviewed the code of conduct (https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/carvel/blob/develop/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md).
• I have enabled 2FA on my GitHub account (https://github.com/settings/security).
• I have active participation and provide support (such as GitHub, meetings, Slack, Stack Overflow) in the community for long enough to have demonstrated knowledge and competency (such as 3 months).
• I have at least one sponsor (see current maintainers list).
• I have spoken to my sponsors ahead of this application, and they have agreed to sponsor my application.

Role Specific Requirements

Approver

• I have reviewed / authored several substantial* pull requests to the codebase.
• Demonstrated the ability to plan and execute a track of work.

Sponsors

• @praveenrewar
• @cppforlife

List of contributions to the Carvel subproject(s)

Some of the relevant PRs I have contributed to:

• Add GK scoping to enhance performance kapp#407
• Add 'versioned-explicit-ref' annotation kapp#311
• Merge cm updates kapp#436
• Update logic handling failures for kapp-controller custom resources kapp#667
• Improving how warnings are displayed kapp#299

PRs reviewed / authored

I have spent most of my time working on kapp as a reviewer in the past few months. Here are some of the PRs I reviewed:

• changes to update resources based on predetermined interval kapp#571
• Apply as many changes as possible with error summary at end kapp#532
• Save app-metadata-file-output even if no change is present kapp#601
• display pod logs respecting the value provided in kapp.k14s.io/deploy-log annotation kapp#497
• Use noop for previous versions of a resource kapp#487

Issues responded to

I respond to queries around kapp and its usage through kapp-controller on GitHub and on Slack often! Here are a few instances of this on GitHub:

• Allow kapp delete even if default namespace was part of the application configuration kapp#452
• kapp creates state configmap on --diff-run kapp#432
• kapp deploy suddenly doesn't work anymore kapp#404
• Restart deployment/daemonset when referred resources' content is changing kapp#286
• Conflict on weird fields kapp#573

Projects I am involved with

I have contributed to discussions around and proposed enhancements to the project as well. Here are a couple of instances of this:

• Perf Enhancement  kapp#394
• [epic] Improving App Change details kapp#342

Next Steps

• Once your sponsors have responded with a +1 for your nomination, your request will be reviewed by the project leads. Any missing information will be requested.

[praveenrewar]

+1
Thank you for everything that you do!!

[cppforlife]

@100mik +1 from me. looking forward to more great contributions!