Assemble Kubernetes 1.34 Release Team 🚀🌍✨🦇

[katcosgrove]

Howdy y'all!

It's time to assemble the team for the Kubernetes v1.34 Release! Thanks so much to everyone for all your work over the last few months. We would not have made it here without you!

Please use this issue to nominate the lead for your role on the 1.34 release team. 🎉 Take a look at the Release Team Selection Process docs for details on the process and criteria.

Once role leads are nominated, I will send out the shadow application survey for selecting 1.34 shadows.

/sig release
/area release-team
/milestone v1.34
/kind documentation
/priority important-soon
/assign @katcosgrove

[k8s-ci-robot]

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In response to this:

Howdy y'all!

It's time to assemble the team for the Kubernetes v1.34 Release! Thanks so much to everyone for all your work over the last few months. We would not have made it here without you!

Please use this issue to nominate the lead for your role on the 1.34 release team. 🎉 Take a look at the Release Team Selection Process docs for details on the process and criteria.

Once role leads are nominated, I will send out the shadow application survey for selecting 1.34 shadows.

/sig release
/area release-team
/milestone v1.34
/kind documentation
/priority important-soon
/assign @katcosgrove

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[npolshakova]

🎉 It's time to assemble a new Kubernetes Release Team!

It was my great honor to serve as the Release Lead for v1.33 alongside an incredible group of people. I want to give a heartfelt thank you to everyone on the Kubernetes v1.33 Release Team — @kubernetes/release-team — for making this release possible! We did it!

I’d also like to give a few special shoutouts:

• To @marosset for being my mentor on the enhancements team back in v1.27. I really appreciate the time you took answering questions and onboarding me into the world of Kubernetes!
• To @fsmunoz, for starting my journey as Release Lead by nominating me and supporting me as a shadow during v1.32.
• To @katcosgrove and @gracenng, for always being there with thoughtful advice, support and answering all my questions throughout the cycle.
• And to @neoaggelos, my Emeritus Advisor this release, thank you for being a steady source of insight and encouragement throughout the cycle.

All of the Release Lead Shadows were amazing, I couldn’t have kept going without your help and steady support throughout the cycle! ❤

With that, I’m thrilled to nominate @Vyom-Yadav as the Kubernetes v1.34 Release Lead! He’s contributed in multiple roles across release cycles and has been a consistent, active presence on every team he’s been part of, even grabbing a laptop to help debug krel release notes issues with me at KubeCon NA. I have full confidence he’ll lead v1.34 with the same energy and care he’s brought to every release so far!

/honk

[k8s-ci-robot]

@npolshakova:

In response to this:

🎉 It's time to assemble a new Kubernetes Release Team!

It was my great honor to serve as the Release Lead for v1.33 alongside an incredible group of people. I want to give a heartfelt thank you to everyone on the Kubernetes v1.33 Release Team — @kubernetes/release-team — for making this release possible! We did it!

I’d also like to give a few special shoutouts:

• To @marosset for being my mentor on the enhancements team back in v1.27. I really appreciate the time you took answering questions and onboarding me into the world of Kubernetes!
• To @fsmunoz, for starting my journey as Release Lead by nominating me and supporting me as a shadow during v1.32.
• To @katcosgrove and @gracenng, for always being there with thoughtful advice, support and answering all my questions throughout the cycle.
• And to @neoaggelos, my Emeritus Advisor this release, thank you for being a steady source of insight and encouragement throughout the cycle.

All of the Release Lead Shadows were amazing, I couldn’t have kept going without your help and steady support throughout the cycle! ❤

With that, I’m thrilled to nominate @Vyom-Yadav as the Kubernetes v1.34 Release Lead! He’s contributed in multiple roles across release cycles and has been a consistent, active presence on every team he’s been part of, even grabbing a laptop to help debug krel release notes issues with me at KubeCon NA. I have full confidence he’ll lead v1.34 with the same energy and care he’s brought to every release so far!

/honk

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[fykaa]

Congrats to the v1.33 team and thank you @npolshakova and @dipesh-rawat (enhancements) for the steady leadership! Excited to see @Vyom-Yadav take on the lead role for v1.34 -- all the bests to the new team! 🌟

[wendy-ha18]

/pony party

[k8s-ci-robot]

@wendy-ha18:

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/pony party

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[wendy-ha18]

I’m so proud to say that v1.33 has been one of the smoothest Release Signal cycles I’ve ever been part of, and it absolutely wouldn’t have been possible without the incredible group of Release Signal shadows: @tico88612, @stmcginnis, @Rajalakshmi-Girish, @elieser1101, and @nitishfy 🥳🥳 👏.

In this release, 47 flaking and failing tests were either resolved or received timely follow-up before several critical moments in the release process. That's huge! 🏆 In Release Signal, at the end of the day when seeing community using Kubernetes, we can confidently say: the quality of this release is solid, because we all know that we really do our best to reach to that level in every single release.

Your collaboration, support for each other, and commitment in this cycle turned Release Signal into the something far from the stressful, high-pressure environment I used to worry about 💪. I'll forever grateful for all the late nights, early mornings, and behind-the-scenes work you all put, especially before each release cuts, even when I haven't asked for you all to do it. I hope you’ve learned a lot throughout this cycle and feel really proud of the work you’ve done.

🥁🥁 I’m also really excited to nominate Raji as the next Release Signal Lead for v1.34! Even as a first-time shadow, she brought a lot insights from sig-testing to the team, generously shared her knowledge of Testgrid and Prow, asked great questions, and even jumped in with PRs to improve testgrid stability where it mattered. Her dedication and reliability made a huge impact, and I can’t wait to see how the team grows under her leadership in v1.34.

And to Eli, ChengHao, Sean, Nitish, I really hope to see you all continue to stay active in the community. Keep up your good work, everyone!! ❤️

/pony party

[k8s-ci-robot]

@wendy-ha18:

In response to this:

I’m so proud to say that v1.33 has been one of the smoothest Release Signal cycles I’ve ever been part of, and it absolutely wouldn’t have been possible without the incredible group of Release Signal shadows: @tico88612, @stmcginnis, @Rajalakshmi-Girish, @elieser1101, and @nitish 🥳🥳 👏.

In this release, 47 flaking and failing tests were either resolved or received timely follow-up before several critical moments in the release process. That's huge! 🏆 In Release Signal, at the end of the day when seeing community using Kubernetes, we can confidently say: the quality of this release is solid, because we all know that we really do our best to reach to that level in every single release.

Your collaboration, support for each other, and commitment in this cycle turned Release Signal into the something far from the stressful, high-pressure environment I used to worry about 💪. I'll forever grateful for all the late nights, early mornings, and behind-the-scenes work you all put, especially before each release cuts, even when I haven't asked for you all to do it. I hope you’ve learned a lot throughout this cycle and feel really proud of the work you’ve done.

🥁🥁 I’m also really excited to nominate Raji as the next Release Signal Lead for v1.34! Even as a first-time shadow, she brought a lot insights from sig-testing to the team, generously shared her knowledge of Testgrid and Prow, asked great questions, and even jumped in with PRs to improve testgrid stability where it mattered. Her dedication and reliability made a huge impact, and I can’t wait to see how the team grows under her leadership in v1.34.

And to Eli, ChengHao, Sean, Nitish, I really hope to see you all continue to stay active in the community. Keep up your good work, everyone!! ❤️

/pony party

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[nitishfy]

Congrats to the entire team for a successful release! It was such a pleasure working with the entire release team. A BIG THANKS to all the people who were involved in this release. A special thanks to @npolshakova and @wendy-ha18 for their guidance beyond the release work! Congratulations @Vyom-Yadav for becoming the Release Lead for Kubernetes v1.34, and I'm pretty sure you will do a great job!

/honk

[k8s-ci-robot]

@nitishfy:

In response to this:

Congrats to the entire team for a successful release! It was such a pleasure working with the entire release team. A BIG THANKS to all the people who were involved in this release. A special thanks to @npolshakova and @wendy-ha18 for their guidance beyond the release work! Congratulations @Vyom-Yadav for becoming the Release Lead for Kubernetes v1.34, and I'm pretty sure you will do a great job!

/honk

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