When Helm moved from a CLA to a DCO it meant I needed to start adding a signoff to my commits on that project. While git makes this almost easy, by using the --signoff flag, it means I need to remember to use the flag when committing.

To make it easier I created an alias so I can use git cs and it will commit with signoff.

To create the alias I ran the command:

$ git config --global alias.cs 'commit --signoff'

After that, I had an alias I could use when using a signoff.

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"Chop Wood Carry Water" is metaphor for doing the hard and non-glamorous work. Open source projects can have a lot of this work. Especially those that are popular and have a community.

On the Helm project, especially on Charts, we have a lot of this work. Reinhard Nägele (a.k.a. unguiculus) is far and away the one who has done the most to chop wood and carry water.

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When DigitalOcean polled developers on serverless, for their June 2018 issue of currents, one of their findings was that half of developers did not have a strong understanding of serverless. Since serverless provides benefits for developers and operators in some situations it's worth understanding well enough to know how to leverage.

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When Kustomize came into the spotlight conversations quickly moved to compare it to Helm. We have it in our nature to debate tools. Just look at the long standing Vim vs Emacs debates. While these tools are really tangential to each other, there are elements to this discussion worth bringing to the surface and thinking though. One such worthy area is to look at who has to handle which parts of the complexity.

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While the Kubernetes Application Survey highlighted some things to be proud of, there were some major problems it highlighted as well. These are the kinds of problems the Kubernetes community needs to solve to really welcome the majority.

One of the biggest is the Windows problem.

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