Propose transitioning KServe project from LFAI to CNCF

[yuzisun]

KServe is a community driven open source project, aiming to deliver a cloud-native, scalable, extensible serverless ML inference platform. It provides an open standard control and data plane for serving production ML models including Scikit-learn, Tensorflow, PyTorch and large language models(LLMs).

Since its inception in 2019, previously known as KFServing under Kubeflow, the KServe project has gained significant traction with support from leading industry players such as Bloomberg, IBM, RedHat, Intuit, SAP, AliCloud. It has fostered a diverse and inclusive community including both end users and cloud vendors. Embracing an open governance model, KServe has established a clear process for promoting reviewers and approvers, ensuring transparency and fairness in decision-making.

KServe plays a vital role for deploying the trained models to production to realize the business values in enabling the end to end ML lifecycle, including model development, training and pipeline. With the rise of LLMs, the need for scalable and cost-effective serving solutions like KServe has become increasingly evident.

Given the recent incubation of Kubeflow within CNCF, the collaborative efforts with CNCF Cloud Native AI working group as well as the community asks, the KServe community propose transitioning the KServe project from LFAI to CNCF. We are using issue to initiate the voting process.

Dan Sun on behalf of the KServe community

[yuzisun]

/vote

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[AlexFly666]

In favor

[zoramt]

What does transitioning to CNCF mean in practice, ie., how does it impact governance, adopters and potential adopters? Whatever be the case, looking forward to keep participating and engaging with the awesome KServe community!

[yuzisun]

What does transitioning to CNCF mean in practice, ie., how does it impact governance, adopters and potential adopters? Whatever be the case, looking forward to keep participating and engaging with the awesome KServe community!

Thanks! There isn’t going to be much change in terms of governance, but it opens door to many other potential adopters in the cloud native space. kserve was created to build a standard cloud native ml inference platform and we are continuing to commit that by working more closely with cloud native AI community.

[yuzisun]

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Vote status

So far 37.50% of the users with binding vote are in favor (passing threshold: 66%).

Summary

In favor	Against	Abstain	Not voted
9	0	0	15

Binding votes (9)

User	Vote	Timestamp
rachitchauhan43	In favor	2024-02-20 0:33:49.0 +00:00:00
andyi2it	In favor	2024-02-20 2:38:53.0 +00:00:00
lizzzcai	In favor	2024-02-20 2:42:37.0 +00:00:00
johnugeorge	In favor	2024-02-20 3:07:59.0 +00:00:00
spolti	In favor	2024-02-20 13:16:02.0 +00:00:00
sivanantha321	In favor	2024-02-20 6:43:34.0 +00:00:00
adriangonz	In favor	2024-02-20 14:46:18.0 +00:00:00
taneem-ibrahim	In favor	2024-02-20 17:58:10.0 +00:00:00
terrytangyuan	In favor	2024-02-20 0:42:17.0 +00:00:00
@cmaddalozzo	Pending
@theofpa	Pending
@greenmoon55	Pending
@houshengbo	Pending
@Jooho	Pending
@sriumcp	Pending
@Tomcli	Pending
@ddelange	Pending
@ReToCode	Pending
@njhill	Pending
@israel-hdez	Pending
@tessapham	Pending
@Iamlovingit	Pending
@alexagriffith	Pending
@gavrishp	Pending

Non-binding votes (18)

User	Vote	Timestamp
yuzisun	In favor	2024-02-19 20:14:54.0 +00:00:00
ronaldpetty	In favor	2024-02-19 22:48:55.0 +00:00:00
paravatha	In favor	2024-02-20 1:13:50.0 +00:00:00
AlexFly666	In favor	2024-02-20 1:18:38.0 +00:00:00
ytang374	In favor	2024-02-20 1:31:14.0 +00:00:00
mokpolar	In favor	2024-02-20 5:24:26.0 +00:00:00
swapkh91	In favor	2024-02-20 6:03:14.0 +00:00:00
StefanoFioravanzo	In favor	2024-02-20 6:49:09.0 +00:00:00
isaranto	In favor	2024-02-20 8:23:38.0 +00:00:00
gcemaj	In favor	2024-02-20 14:40:47.0 +00:00:00
samj1912	In favor	2024-02-20 14:46:11.0 +00:00:00
kevinmingtarja	In favor	2024-02-20 15:21:51.0 +00:00:00
andreyvelich	In favor	2024-02-20 15:37:52.0 +00:00:00
markwinter	In favor	2024-02-20 20:41:56.0 +00:00:00
zoramt	In favor	2024-02-22 0:46:42.0 +00:00:00
supertetelman	Abstain	2024-02-22 7:05:10.0 +00:00:00
harshshekhar15	In favor	2024-02-22 15:06:58.0 +00:00:00
resker	In favor	2024-02-22 15:53:43.0 +00:00:00

[johnugeorge]

/check-vote

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Vote status

So far 54.17% of the users with binding vote are in favor (passing threshold: 66%).

Summary

In favor	Against	Abstain	Not voted
13	0	1	10

Binding votes (14)

User	Vote	Timestamp
ReToCode	In favor	2024-02-26 6:37:42.0 +00:00:00
spolti	In favor	2024-02-20 13:16:02.0 +00:00:00
gavrishp	In favor	2024-02-25 13:25:56.0 +00:00:00
terrytangyuan	In favor	2024-02-20 0:42:17.0 +00:00:00
ddelange	Abstain	2024-02-24 22:01:07.0 +00:00:00
johnugeorge	In favor	2024-02-20 3:07:59.0 +00:00:00
adriangonz	In favor	2024-02-20 14:46:18.0 +00:00:00
sivanantha321	In favor	2024-02-20 6:43:34.0 +00:00:00
taneem-ibrahim	In favor	2024-02-20 17:58:10.0 +00:00:00
rachitchauhan43	In favor	2024-02-20 0:33:49.0 +00:00:00
sriumcp	In favor	2024-02-25 0:50:39.0 +00:00:00
tessapham	In favor	2024-02-26 4:34:23.0 +00:00:00
andyi2it	In favor	2024-02-20 2:38:53.0 +00:00:00
lizzzcai	In favor	2024-02-20 2:42:37.0 +00:00:00
@cmaddalozzo	Pending
@theofpa	Pending
@greenmoon55	Pending
@houshengbo	Pending
@Jooho	Pending
@Tomcli	Pending
@njhill	Pending
@israel-hdez	Pending
@Iamlovingit	Pending
@alexagriffith	Pending

Non-binding votes (18)

User	Vote	Timestamp
yuzisun	In favor	2024-02-19 20:14:54.0 +00:00:00
ronaldpetty	In favor	2024-02-19 22:48:55.0 +00:00:00
paravatha	In favor	2024-02-20 1:13:50.0 +00:00:00
AlexFly666	In favor	2024-02-20 1:18:38.0 +00:00:00
ytang374	In favor	2024-02-20 1:31:14.0 +00:00:00
mokpolar	In favor	2024-02-20 5:24:26.0 +00:00:00
swapkh91	In favor	2024-02-20 6:03:14.0 +00:00:00
StefanoFioravanzo	In favor	2024-02-20 6:49:09.0 +00:00:00
isaranto	In favor	2024-02-20 8:23:38.0 +00:00:00
gcemaj	In favor	2024-02-20 14:40:47.0 +00:00:00
samj1912	In favor	2024-02-20 14:46:11.0 +00:00:00
kevinmingtarja	In favor	2024-02-20 15:21:51.0 +00:00:00
andreyvelich	In favor	2024-02-20 15:37:52.0 +00:00:00
markwinter	In favor	2024-02-20 20:41:56.0 +00:00:00
zoramt	In favor	2024-02-22 0:46:42.0 +00:00:00
supertetelman	Abstain	2024-02-22 7:05:10.0 +00:00:00
harshshekhar15	In favor	2024-02-22 15:06:58.0 +00:00:00
resker	In favor	2024-02-22 15:53:43.0 +00:00:00

[Jooho]

In favor 👍

[yuzisun]

/check-vote

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Vote closed

The vote passed! 🎉

75.00% of the users with binding vote were in favor (passing threshold: 66%).

Summary

In favor	Against	Abstain	Not voted
18	0	1	5

Binding votes (19)

User	Vote	Timestamp
@ReToCode	In favor	2024-02-26 6:37:42.0 +00:00:00
@gavrishp	In favor	2024-02-25 13:25:56.0 +00:00:00
@israel-hdez	In favor	2024-02-27 15:22:11.0 +00:00:00
@rachitchauhan43	In favor	2024-02-20 0:33:49.0 +00:00:00
@terrytangyuan	In favor	2024-02-20 0:42:17.0 +00:00:00
@tessapham	In favor	2024-02-26 4:34:23.0 +00:00:00
@Tomcli	In favor	2024-02-27 16:48:54.0 +00:00:00
@spolti	In favor	2024-02-20 13:16:02.0 +00:00:00
@greenmoon55	In favor	2024-02-27 19:39:43.0 +00:00:00
@sivanantha321	In favor	2024-02-20 6:43:34.0 +00:00:00
@johnugeorge	In favor	2024-02-20 3:07:59.0 +00:00:00
@Jooho	In favor	2024-02-27 14:18:11.0 +00:00:00
@taneem-ibrahim	In favor	2024-02-20 17:58:10.0 +00:00:00
@lizzzcai	In favor	2024-02-20 2:42:37.0 +00:00:00
@ddelange	Abstain	2024-02-24 22:01:07.0 +00:00:00
@sriumcp	In favor	2024-02-25 0:50:39.0 +00:00:00
@adriangonz	In favor	2024-02-20 14:46:18.0 +00:00:00
@houshengbo	In favor	2024-02-27 14:50:42.0 +00:00:00
@andyi2it	In favor	2024-02-20 2:38:53.0 +00:00:00

Non-binding votes (20)

User	Vote	Timestamp
@yuzisun	In favor	2024-02-19 20:14:54.0 +00:00:00
@ronaldpetty	In favor	2024-02-19 22:48:55.0 +00:00:00
@paravatha	In favor	2024-02-20 1:13:50.0 +00:00:00
@AlexFly666	In favor	2024-02-20 1:18:38.0 +00:00:00
@ytang374	In favor	2024-02-20 1:31:14.0 +00:00:00
@mokpolar	In favor	2024-02-20 5:24:26.0 +00:00:00
@swapkh91	In favor	2024-02-20 6:03:14.0 +00:00:00
@StefanoFioravanzo	In favor	2024-02-20 6:49:09.0 +00:00:00
@isaranto	In favor	2024-02-20 8:23:38.0 +00:00:00
@gcemaj	In favor	2024-02-20 14:40:47.0 +00:00:00
@samj1912	In favor	2024-02-20 14:46:11.0 +00:00:00
@kevinmingtarja	In favor	2024-02-20 15:21:51.0 +00:00:00
@andreyvelich	In favor	2024-02-20 15:37:52.0 +00:00:00
@markwinter	In favor	2024-02-20 20:41:56.0 +00:00:00
@zoramt	In favor	2024-02-22 0:46:42.0 +00:00:00
@supertetelman	Abstain	2024-02-22 7:05:10.0 +00:00:00
@harshshekhar15	In favor	2024-02-22 15:06:58.0 +00:00:00
@resker	In favor	2024-02-22 15:53:43.0 +00:00:00
@lampajr	In favor	2024-02-27 14:52:12.0 +00:00:00
@tarilabs	In favor	2024-02-27 16:03:30.0 +00:00:00

[terrytangyuan]

/check-vote

[terrytangyuan]

The proposal for moving KServe to CNCF was submitted to CNCF TOC: cncf/toc#1353

[terrytangyuan]

Here's the new link to the proposal to follow the new template from CNCF TOC: cncf/toc#1367