Re:"Giving up upstream-ing my patches & feel free to pick th...
by __turbobrew__ on Sunday February 01, 2026 @03:51AM
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My PRs are submitted under my real name and my HN account is not under my real name, so I cannot share.
For my etcd changes I did submit to the correct SIG, but nobody reviewed it.
Kubernetes is such a huge project that there are few reviewers who would feel comfortable signing off an an arbitrary PR in a part of the codebase they are not very familiar with.
It's more like Linux, where you need to find the working group (Kubernetes SIG) who would be a good sponsor for a patch, and they can then assign a good reviewer.
(This is true even if you work for Google or Red Hat)