History

The project's life, one year at a time, told from the commit record: how activity rose and fell against the project's own baseline, who arrived when, and what was released.

Span
2014 – 2026 (13 years)
Peak year
2016
Releases
0
2014BIRTHfirst commits

4577 commits (3.3%) · +805883 / −458196 lines · 192 authors

Led by Daniel Smith (893 commits)

First commits: Daniel Smith, Brendan Burns, Clayton Coleman, Tim Hockin, Joe Beda, Dawn Chen (+186 more)

2015SURGEwell above the usual pace

18247 commits (13.0%) · +3109226 / −2005609 lines · 543 authors

Led by k8s-merge-robot (1555 commits)

First commits: k8s-merge-robot, Wojciech Tyczyński, Marek Grabowski, Yu-Ju Hong, Chao Xu, Abhi Shah (+461 more)

2016PEAKbusiest year

18787 commits (13.4%) · +5058283 / −3296002 lines · 649 authors

Led by Kubernetes Submit Queue (3462 commits)

First commits: Kubernetes Submit Queue, David McMahon, Euan Kemp, Michael Taufen, Erick Fejta, Mehdy Bohlool (+460 more)

2017SURGEwell above the usual pace

18378 commits (13.1%) · +3588273 / −2825201 lines · 805 authors

Led by Kubernetes Submit Queue (7573 commits)

First commits: zhengjiajin, FengyunPan2, zhangxiaoyu-zidif, Nick Sardo, Konstantinos Tsakalozos, Christoph Blecker (+527 more)

2018STEADY

13447 commits (9.6%) · +2142697 / −946239 lines · 848 authors

Led by Kubernetes Submit Queue (4209 commits)

First commits: Kubernetes Prow Robot, hangaoshuai, Anago GCB, Ashley Gau, Sean Sullivan, Patrick Ohly (+494 more)

2019STEADY

13865 commits (9.9%) · +2777914 / −2542262 lines · 893 authors

Led by Kubernetes Prow Robot (5736 commits)

First commits: Ted Yu, RainbowMango, draveness, ahg-g, Kevin Klues, caiweidong (+543 more)

2020STEADY

9638 commits (6.9%) · +1395787 / −822632 lines · 806 authors

Led by Kubernetes Prow Robot (3981 commits)

First commits: Gaurav Singh, Joakim Roubert, drfish, Francesco Romani, Brian Pursley, Artyom Lukianov (+441 more)

2021STEADY

8968 commits (6.4%) · +2237559 / −1567305 lines · 746 authors

Led by Kubernetes Prow Robot (3646 commits)

First commits: Shiming Zhang, Mengjiao Liu, Mauricio Poppe, 杨军10092085, Kevin Wiesmueller, Chok Yip Lau (+379 more)

2022STEADY

7239 commits (5.1%) · +1411366 / −1187301 lines · 603 authors

Led by Kubernetes Prow Robot (2844 commits)

First commits: Kubernetes Release Robot, Michał Woźniak, Abirdcfly, Roman Bednar, Dixita, AxeZhan (+297 more)

2023STEADY

7532 commits (5.4%) · +1713250 / −1293038 lines · 534 authors

Led by Kubernetes Prow Robot (2924 commits)

First commits: Daman Arora, vinay kulkarni, mantuliu, Kevin Hannon, upodroid, Itamar Holder (+249 more)

2024STEADY

7043 commits (5.0%) · +1081290 / −2368689 lines · 482 authors

Led by Kubernetes Prow Robot (2684 commits)

First commits: Maciej Skoczeń, CYJiang, Matthieu MOREL, Lionel Jouin, zhangzhifei16, Vivek Bansal (+214 more)

2025STEADY

7145 commits (5.1%) · +1067218 / −598136 lines · 515 authors

Led by Kubernetes Prow Robot (2612 commits)

First commits: Ondra Kupka, Lalit Chauhan, PatrickLaabs, ylink-lfs, Michael Aspinwall, Ania Borowiec (+261 more)

2026STEADY

5770 commits (4.1%) · +1302729 / −545814 lines · 449 authors

Led by Kubernetes Prow Robot (1498 commits)

First commits: Lukasz Wojciechowski, krishhna24, Antoni Basista, Troy Chiu, Mads Jensen, Amritansh Amritansh (+220 more)