The document provides an update on the Knative Functions working group. It discusses wins and losses in recent months, participation and contributors, the status of the Func-tastic plugin, the roadmap including upcoming releases, open issues to focus on like refactoring and improving developer experience, and approved talks for KubeCon North America about Knative Functions.

1. Knative WG Update
Functions - August 2022

2. Wins and Losses
● IDE Integration
● On cluster builds
● UX improvements
● Moving pretty slowly on docs for
knative.dev website
● Low level of community engagement
○ We think that 1.0.0 and KubeCon might
give us a boost here
Wins Losses

3. Participation
Who's on track for approver:
● David Fridrich (@gauron99)
● Gunjan Vyas (@vyasgun)
Who's on track for leads:
● Zbynek Roubalik
● Matej Vasek
● Luke Kingland
● Someone outside of Red Hat?
Contributors
# Run the following in your repo:
git log --after=2022-05-01
--pretty=format:"%ae"
--date=short --
. | grep -v noreply.github.com | sort -u
Salaboy@gmail.com
dbodky@gmail.com
dsimansk@redhat.com
haubenr@de.ibm.com
jrangelramos@gmail.com
jwcesign@gmail.com
lball@redhat.com
mvasek@redhat.com
vyasgun20@gmail.com
yingchun.guo@intel.com
zroubalik@gmail.com

4. Plugin Status
● Func-tastic
○ Not much traction yet
○ Metacontroller example - https://github.com/knative-sandbox/func-tastic/pull/2
○ PyTorch and TensorFlow community request

5. Roadmap (https://github.com/orgs/knative-sandbox/projects/7)
25th Aug: 0.26.0
15th Sept: 0.99.0
4th Oct: 1.0.0
KubeCon NA: 25th Oct

6. Open Issues
Main focus is getting to 1.0 by KubeCon NA
Major initiatives
● Func.yaml refactoring
● On cluster builds
● Refining developer experience (lots of small UX changes)
● Eventing integrations (likely 1.1.0)
● Documentation on knative.dev website
● Move repo to knative/func

7. KubeCon NA Approved Talk
- Lance lightning talk about `func` - APPROVED
- Lance & Mauricio session about `func` - WAITLISTED
- Lance, Evan, Naina, Mauricio Knative Maintainers track - APPROVED
- Mauricio’s Keynote will include a mention to the release

8. Issue Status
Any notes