1.7 Excipit Kubernetes v1.28, Incipit Kubernetes v1.29
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2023-08-30

    The theme for Kubernetes v1.28 is Planternetes.

    Each Kubernetes release is the culmination of the hard work of
    thousands of individuals from our community.  The people behind
    this release come from a wide range of backgrounds, some of us
    industry veterans, parents, others students and newcomers to
    open-source.  We combine our unique experience to create a
    collective artifact with global impact.

    Much like a garden, our release has ever-changing growth,
    challenges and opportunities.  This theme celebrates the meticulous
    care, intention and efforts to get the release to where we are
    today.  Harmoniously together, we grow better.

               -- _Kubernetes v1.28: Planternetes (1)_

  I've been a part of the Kubernetes Release Team since v1.25, and it
was great to see v1.28 released: this time, I was a part of the Release
Notes team, and I've learned quite a bit with Sanchita Mishra.  Release
Notes is very interesting in the way it works, and building the final
‘Changelog’ through the incremental process of accepted enhancements is
part science, part art.

  It was therefore particularly great to have been appointed as Release
Notes lead for the upcoming v1.29 release (2); this is always part
merit, part chance, because the reality is that there are many other
talented volunteers that could just as well be named.

  Kubernetes is an interesting project, in many ways, but one of them
being the way it's currently a blend of pure community work and very
clear commercial interests - not that there is an opposition between
them, as the old discussion about 'free as in freedom' goes.  The
governance model evolved to address this tension, at least that's what
I'm seeing as I get more involved (and it's easy to get involved, truth
be told).

  ---------- Footnotes ----------

  (1) Kubernetes v1.28: Planternetes
(https://kubernetes.io/blog/2023/08/15/kubernetes-v1-28-release/)

  (2) Release Notes lead for the upcoming v1.29 release
(https://github.com/kubernetes/sig-release/tree/master/releases/release-1.29)