KEDA Governance is a repository that documents the organizational structure, policies, and decision-making processes for the KEDA project.
The repository addresses the need for transparent, documented governance in a large open-source project by centralizing policies and procedures that guide community participation, contribution standards, and project direction. It provides a single source of truth for how the project operates, including rules around breaking changes, deprecation practices, code of conduct expectations, and membership criteria. This approach allows contributors and users to understand the project's values and how decisions are made without having to infer them from scattered communications or historical precedent.
Teams adopting KEDA or considering contribution should review this governance repository to understand the project's expectations and structure. The repository is particularly valuable for organizations integrating KEDA into production systems, as it clarifies the project's commitment to stability through its deprecation policy and breaking changes documentation. It also documents how scalers are governed separately, which matters for teams building custom scalers or relying on community-maintained ones. The project's status as a CNCF graduated project, reflected in the badges and documentation here, signals a mature governance model suitable for enterprise use.
The project maintains active documentation of its governance structures and policies, with clear separation of concerns across multiple policy documents covering deprecation, branding, code of conduct, community participation, membership, release practices, and scaler management. The repository serves as the authoritative reference for how the KEDA community operates and evolves.
