[Discussion] Arena project roadmap

[johnugeorge]

There was a discussion in the last community meeting regarding the future of Arena project in the Kubeflow Github org. Currently, the project is active with contributions, but the roadmap/goals are not documented.

Two options were discussed.

1. Add it as an official Kubeflow component as in https://www.kubeflow.org/docs/components/ . This will require a new Working Group(or join existing WG) with validated release for every official Kubeflow release, community support, documentation, website, roadmap etc.
2. Move Arena project to a separate Github repository outside Kubeflow.

We would like to know more on roadmap, active contributors and organizations who are willing to support.

cc @Syulin7 who is a lead contributor in the Arena project

[johnugeorge]

/cc @jbottum

[Syulin7]

Thanks @johnugeorge , I will discuss arena roadmap with contributors.

[terrytangyuan]

I had a discussion with Arena team. Here's an update:

1. Arena team has put together a 2024 roadmap document here: https://github.com/kubeflow/arena/blob/master/ROADMAP.md
2. The OWNERS file has also been updated to include the active maintainers from multiple companies: https://github.com/kubeflow/arena/blob/master/OWNERS
3. Arena team is interested in staying in Kubeflow and establishing WG CLI.