After last week's TOC call, we decided to start moving forward with
graduation reviews. Kubernetes was the project that motivated the creation
of the CNCF, and was its first (seed) project. It has sustained a fast pace
of growth of contributors, contributing organizations, and users, and now
operates at massive scale. The project's governance and community-management
practices continue to evolve and mature as the project grows, but the
Kubernetes Steering Committee (https://github.com/kubernetes/steering)
unanimously believes that Kubernetes fulfills all the CNCF incubating and
graduation criteria:

- Used successfully in production by at least three independent end users of
sufficient scale and quality: https://kubernetes.io/case-studies
- Have a healthy number of committers: Kubernetes is so large, with
thousands of contributors and nearly 100 repositories, that we had to
develop our own mechanism to manage approval permissions. We have hundreds
of approvers, listed in more than 4000 OWNERS files across the project
(https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=org%3Akubernetes+filename%3AOWNERS&type=Code)
- Demonstrate a substantial ongoing flow of commits and merged
contributions: Devstats shows that we have thousands of PRs merged per month
(https://k8s.devstats.cncf.io/)

Please vote (+1/0/-1) by replying to this thread; the full proposal located
here: https://github.com/cncf/toc/pull/91

Remember that the TOC has binding votes only, but we do appreciate
non-binding votes from the community as a sign of support!

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Chris Aniszczyk (@cra) | +1-512-961-6719