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• I have read the Code of Conduct

Is your first contribution to Backstage at least 3 months ago?

Yes

Highlighted Contributions

• Added a Backend Identity API interface
• Exported Scaffolder task broker interfaces to allow tasks to run outside the backend process
• Added various UI components entity labels card; peek ahead popover component
• Fixed lots of bugs
• Made numerous improvements to the documentation
• I have contributed at sig meetings, presented at meetings etc.
• Among other things

What is your Discord username?

Brian Fletcher#7051

What is the name of your current organization?

RoadieHQ

Any other context that you wish to share

No response

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• I have read the Code of Conduct

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Yes, I have been contributing to Backstage for at least 3 months

Highlighted Contributions

backstage/backstage#16647
backstage/backstage#12019
backstage/backstage#15937
backstage/backstage#16724
backstage/backstage#16782

What is your Discord username?

luchillo17#8777

What is the name of your current organization?

VMWare

Any other context that you wish to share

No response

Details

December has only the Adopters Community Session, because of holidays in December.

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Hi folks, I was just reading the SIG Catalog README and noticed two things:

1. the meeting notes doc is not public -- is this intentional? should folks request access? or should it be wide open?
2. I don't see a #sig-catalog channel on the Backstage Discord -- could that be a visibility/access problem, or has it not been created yet?

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Highlighted Contributions

https://github.com/backstage/backstage/pulls/OrkoHunter
https://github.com/backstage/backstage/issues/created_by/OrkoHunter

Along with code contributions, I have been spreading the word around Backstage by talks, videos, tutorials and evangelism.

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OrkoHunter#1520

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Harness.io

Any other context that you wish to share

Saw people doing this 😁

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Highlighted Contributions

I've primarily been focused on OpenAPI specs and generation, a few key contributions have been:

• backstage/backstage#15667
• backstage/backstage#16238
• (in progress): backstage/backstage#17470

Other contributions have been:

• backstage/backstage#13927
• backstage/backstage#16682
• backstage/backstage#16320

What is your Discord username?

Aramis#7984

What is the name of your current organization?

no answer

Any other context that you wish to share

Is this the right avenue to ask if I should be listed as a plugin owner/maintainer for https://github.com/backstage/backstage/tree/master/packages/backend-openapi-utils? Will be continuing to contribute in the OpenAPI space.

This is a working group to follow up on the idea of defining Opinionated Catalog Ingestors to address the pain point related to the Software Catalog Adoption.

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I've been contributing for a while now here are some examples:

• Use default when no MkDocs config found: backstage/backstage#15417
• Added version-bump workflow for the Demo site: backstage/demo#65
• Added EntityAdvancedPicker for filtering orphans and/or errors: backstage/backstage#12149
• Added MySquads: backstage/backstage#10026
• Added Support to Highlight PG Search Result Terms: backstage/backstage#12130

What is your Discord username?

Ahhhndre#3095

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Keyloop

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No response

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Highlighted Contributions

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=kZFdHmM5-7M&feature=youtu.be
• https://konghq.com/videos/kuma-and-backstage
• https://tech.aa.com/2021-12-21-runway-pt1/
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=I2uEhK0T8MY
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MU5TbNGTBO4
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MU5TbNGTBO4
• https://getdx.com/podcast/developer-portal
• https://github.com/RoadieHQ/roadie-backstage-plugins/tree/main/plugins/scaffolder-actions/scaffolder-backend-argocd
• https://github.com/RoadieHQ/roadie-backstage-plugins/tree/main/plugins/backend/backstage-plugin-argo-cd-backend

What is your Discord username?

Karl#5593

What is the name of your current organization?

American Airlines

Any other context that you wish to share

We started with backstage on alpha 4. I have personally met with tons of companies to push backstage, contributed 2 plugins via roadie, have contributed through blog posts, videos, and a recent podcast. I also have participated in discord conversations.

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backstage/backstage#12156
backstage/backstage#11974
backstage/backstage#13800
backstage/backstage#13704
backstage/backstage#11082
backstage/backstage#6589

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Miklos#7416

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RoadieHQ

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I try to attend most of the catalog-sig meetings.

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Source Adoption SIG - Meeting Notes

Starting Micro-service Plugins Working Group under Adoption SIG

@taras shared that several members of Red Hat team expressed interested in meeting to discuss deploying Backstage backend plugins as microservices. @Rugvip shared that the Backstage Maintainers have been working on Backend Extension system that will is big step towards isolated backend plugins. The group discussed topics that need to be considered by the working group which are,

1. How do we manage routing between services?
2. How do we maintain the option to deploy as a monolith and as microservices?
3. How do we dynamically local plugins?

The following people shared interested in participating,

• Oleg Silkin (Red Hat)
• Thorsten Schwesig (Red Hat)
• Gorkem Ercan (maybe interested - was not present, Red Hat)
• Tom Coufal
• Sam Padgett
• Waldir Montoya (VMWare)
• Jamie (VMWare)

Action item: start a thread in #adopters channel to schedule a time for the group to meet.

Reimagining onboarding experience

Mihai Tabara, in @fcorti's absence, shared their thoughts about a new onboarding experience for companies adopting Backstage. Mihai presented slides that showed a new experience. The new experience will allow initial configuration to be done via the browser. There are lots of unknowns, but some of the slides included examples of WordPress administration where users can install plugins without a build step. They are working on an RFC to share their ideas and get feedback from the community.

New Entity Validation Plugin

@ivangonzalezacuna shared a new plugin to allow validating entities via the Backstage App. The plugin is current in a PR and it's available here backstage/backstage#16050

Backstage for Backstage

@minkimcello created an RFC with a proposal to create a Backstage developer portal for the Backstage community. Min asked about features that the community would like to see in this portal.

Some of the features could be

1. Being able to search through all publicly published Backstage plugins
2. Aggregate Backstage-related blog posts
3. Search Backstage documentation
4. List Backstage talks/events

@waldirmontoya asked if some of the features would be better as improvements to the microsite. @taras suggested that we could do both - improve the search but also make the content available via the portal. @Rugvip suggested that some features might be better as an awesome-list instead of Backstage. @Rugvip suggested that it would be nice to be able to create Backstage plugins using the scaffolder to make it easier for folks to get started. @waldirmontoya suggested that we should consider adding these features to the demo site.

Action item: start a thread in #adopters channel to schedule a time for a group to meet to discuss initial plan.

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Yes, I have been contributing to Backstage for at least 3 months

Highlighted Contributions

backstage/backstage#16929

backstage/backstage#11130

backstage/backstage#11374

backstage/backstage#15454

backstage/backstage#16409

What is your Discord username?

webark#8471

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Cvent

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No response

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• I have read the Code of Conduct

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Yes, I have been contributing to Backstage for at least 3 months

Highlighted Contributions

• CNCF Webinar: Driving Adoption of your Backstage IDP
• Linux Foundation Backstage course
• 32 editions of the Backstage Weekly newsletter
• backstage/backstage#12191
• BackstageCon NA 2022 Program Committee member
• Backstage Unconferences Organizer
• BackstageCon Talk: Talking in Backstage
• Upcoming talk at KubeCon EU

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jorgel#8733

What is the name of your current organization?

Roadie

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I've yet to have the chance to contribute code, but I'm constantly reading what's happening in the codebase and promoting Backstage.

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Source: Catalog SIG - Meeting Notes

Sharing insight from Catalog SIG with the community

@taras shared that the understanding created in the Catalog SIG doesn't propagate to the community. There needs to be higher awareness of the SIG, and people who can't attend the SIG should be able to learn from the discussion. We discussed creating transcripts and recordings, but we have yet to decide. A decision was made to start posting summaries of the meeting to the catalog channel in Discord to raise awareness. Taras Mankovski volunteered to start writing summaries of the meetings.

Ability to measure and monitor ingestion by entity kind #15159

@jessicamarcomini shared that HP already uses the existing Prometheus metrics to monitor ingestion performance. It would help to have more granular metrics that show the ingestion of individual entity types. The maintainers shared that OpenTelemetry will replace the prom-client used today in the future, but they encountered some limitations in the OpenTelemetry client that need to be addressed. In the meantime, Jessica was encouraged to create a pull request to introduce the metrics HP needs to the existing Prometheus metrics. Jessica will start working on a new PR and create a draft PR if she encounters unknowns.

Adding Events integration to Incremental Entity Providers #15154

@dekoding has an open PR to introduce Events integration to Incremental Entity Providers. It will allow routing payload received from GitHub Webhooks to Incremental Entity Providers for ingestion. @freben shared that he suggested changing the API that incremental entity providers expose, but otherwise, it is not controversial. @freben additionally shared that his vision for the ingestion is to make it mainly reactive to events. However, we'll still need initial ingestion, which can happen via Incremental Entity Providers.

OpenAPI spec for the REST API #2566

@sennyeya brought #2566 for discussion. There is a general desire to adopt OpenAPI specifications in the project. There was an open question on whether we should go schema-first or code-first. Maintainers and @taras expressed interest in schema-first. @taras encouraged the group to narrow the scope to schema-first since no one else expressed interest in advancing the code-first approach. The decision was made to focus on the schema-first approach. @Rugvip suggested that generating TypeScript types from OpenAPI specifications was a good starting point. We discussed whether we should focus on OpenAPI 3.1 or 3.0. Attendees shared that they don't have first-hand experience with the two versions. We discussed differences from Migrating from OpenAPI 3.0 to 3.1.0 article. We discussed that Autorest doesn't yet support OpenAPI 3.1, and they have had an open issue for over two years. @Rugvip suggested that validating input/output based on an OpenAPI spec and stubs of a server would be helpful.

@sennyeya agreed to focus on the schema-first approach in his experiments and bring the results for discussion to future meetings.

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Participants

• Taras Mankovski
• Serena Nichols
• Francesco Corti
• Tom Coufal
• Waldir Montoya
• Phil K
• Min Kim

Update from Backstage for Backstage Working Group

@taras shared that Backstage for Backstage WG met to discuss the approach. Meeting notes can be found in this document. The group decided to focus on functionality that doesn't have an overlap with the microsite.

The first two features to be implemented are

• Show a list of all Backstage plugins published to NPM
• Allow using the scaffolder to create a new plugin

Update from Backstate Microservice Plugins Working Group

@taras shared that Backstage Microservice Plugins Working Group had their first meeting. @taras created a meta issue #68 to track progress of the group. Red Hat folks brought lots of experience from their work with Webpack Federation to create a pluggable framework for OpenShift's console. The group agreed to think about the discussion and reconvene in the near future. The next meeting is set for Feb 28th. To track the group's progress, subscribe to notifications of #68

Discord Analytics

@waldirmontoya25 shared that he's been going through Discord looking for all of the discussions where @freben and @Rugvip talked about extending the data model. It's time consuming and he wanted to know if there is a way to get analytics from Discord. It would be helpful to know what people are asking about. @fcorti said that he'll enquire internally and get back to the group.

Reading Secrets Asynchronously

@RobotSail shared that he and @taras were talking about contributions to Backstage that could be relevant for Red Hat. @taras shared a link to backstage/backstage#14084 and backstage/backstage#13952 which talk about the need for loading secrets without using environment variables or without storying them in memory at all. This is important for financial institutions that want to adopt Backstage.

In summary, there are 3 approaches that could allow using secrets in Backstage without using environment variables.

1. Allow injecting secrets into config in packages/backend/src/index.ts as described in backstage/backstage#14084
2. Introduce an integration with vaults as described in backstage/backstage#13952
3. Introduce a secret clients API that would allow fetching clients on demand

Option 1 is most approachable so we're going to start with that approach. Discussion is here

Opinionated Catalog Ingestion

@fcorti shared that he would like to restart the conversation about Opinionated Catalog Ingestion. He said that he doesn't have a solution in mind, but the wants to start discussing the problems that we'd want to solve with a more Opinionated Catalog Ingestion.

@fcorti shared that in previous discussions there was a strong message that requiring YAML to ingest into the catalog makes adoption more difficult. We'd like to find a way to populate the catalog when the organization doesn't have YAML documents or their documents are not in Backstage YAML format.

• @waldirmontoya25 shared that VMWare would like to support this effort.
• @adobejmong shared that Adobe is interested in this initiative as well.
• Greg Schultz shared that at their company they have lots of Spring Cloud Config files. It would useful for them to be able to ingest those instead of expecting catalog-info.yaml files to exist
• Ravi Tadikonda of USBank would like to engage in a conversation about using a push based model of ingestion with events instead of pull based.

Action item: @fcorti will setup a dedicated meeting and invite anyone interested in this topic. If you'd like to be added to the list, email [email protected]

Demo of Embedded Scaffolder Workflow

Watch the demo video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdpm4m7uMgg

@taras shared that the alpha version of Backstage Scaffolder Plugin includes a new feature Frontside created for one of their clients. It's called the Embedded Scaffolder Workflow, making it easier to onboard components in the Catalog to use features that require updating annotations. In the demo video, @taras shows how an entity in the Catalog not using TechDocs can be onboarded using the Embedded Scaffolder Workflow. The MissingAnnotation component, which users find confusing, is replaced by a scaffolder workflow that creates a pull request with everything the entity needs to start using TechDocs. The pull request includes configuring the continuous integration system to build and upload docs to the storage container, updating the catalog-info.yaml file with necessary annotation, adds the docs folder and mkdocs.yaml file. Instead of giving the user work to do, it gives them a pull request that they can merge and show docs in Backstage.

You can find the example code here thefrontside/playhouse#224

Stayed tuned for an alpha of this release.

Spontanious discussions

What is the status of the Backend System?

According to Backstage System Alpha blog post, Backstage System is not yet ready for production. There isn't clear timeline yet of when it'll be in production. There is a meta issue backstage/backstage#13084 to track necessary changes to plugins

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Highlighted Contributions

Some of my contributions so far:
backstage/backstage#15812
backstage/backstage#16117
backstage/backstage#16237

I am also current working out a solution and should have a PR ready soon for:
backstage/backstage#16065

and currently have an open PR that I am working on as well:
backstage/backstage#16649

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RubenV#9310

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Vmware

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My contributions have been scoped to the kubernetes-plugin so far but moving forward i believe i will be contributing across different project areas in any capacity so thats why Im applying under organization membership. It has been a pleasure contributing thus far and I am excited to continue to drive changes and upgrades to backstage.

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I've been contributing to Backstage since September 2020. I'm within the top 30 contributors to Backstage. I have over 30 PRs merged, and I support Frontside developers and other community members in contributing to Backstage.

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tarasm#1256

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Frontside

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I also help with Adoption SIG and active participant in Catalog SIG.

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Highlighted Contributions

Most notably I'm the author of 3 current plugins:

• Playlists
• ADRs
• Entity Feedback

Additionally, here is a list of my various past contributions

What is your Discord username?

pkuang#3202

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FactSet Research Systems

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Hi! Would it be possible to provide a link to view the community newsletters via browser? I'm subscribed to the newsletter and would like to be able to share it occasionally with my organization via slack. I've seen other mailchimp newsletters have a "view this in your browser" link... it'd be great to have that with the Backstage newsletter!

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How can adopters stay up to date on the activities of the SIGs?

Greg Schultz shared that it takes more work to keep track of all the discussions and working groups around the SIGs. Some meetings happen via Zoom, while others via Google Meet. What is the best way to keep current?

Outcomes:

• We'll create issues in https://github.com/backstage/community/issues to keep the community up to date
• Community members can stay up to date about activities of a working group by subscribing to the issue for that working group.
• We'll add a link to this repository to #adotion and #catalog channels

Proposal for Opinionated Backstage Ingestion

The slides from the presentation are available in the Opinionated Ingestion Working Group Discussion issue #70 (comment)

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Have you read the Code of Conduct?

• I have read the Code of Conduct

Is your first contribution to Backstage at least 3 months ago?

Yes, I have been contributing to Backstage for at least 3 months

Highlighted Contributions

• event support (backstage/backstage#13931 as well as a couple of follow up PRs like e.g. backstage/backstage#14798 which was used as example for the event support aded to similar entity providers)
• config-based schedule support for entity providers, added support for new backend-api (backstage/backstage#13859, backstage/backstage#14034, ...)
• creation of the BitbucketCloudEntityProvider (backstage/backstage#11345) and more Bitbucket-related changes
• some default sign-in resolvers (backstage/backstage#11005, backstage/backstage#11045)
• AwsS3EntityProvider (backstage/backstage#10480)
• msgraph provider improvements (backstage/backstage#9826, backstage/backstage#9920, backstage/backstage#9921, backstage/backstage#10902, backstage/backstage#12196, ...)

and a few more minor changes (64 closed PRs at backstage/backstage, one at backstage/mkdocs-techdocs-core ans backstage/software-templates, a few open PRs and issues still to work on).
Code reviews and support on Discord, too, of course.

What is your Discord username?

pjungermann#6933

What is the name of your current organization?

Bonial International GmbH

Any other context that you wish to share

Currently, no 39 based on commits, no 7 based on added code lines at backstage/backstage. (I prefer amend and squash.)

Document how to facilitate a Backstage Community Session to make sure the knowledge is written and reusable by anyone in the future.

Have you read the Code of Conduct?

• I have read the Code of Conduct

Is your first contribution to Backstage at least 3 months ago?

Yes, I have been contributing to Backstage for at least 3 months

Highlighted Contributions

backstage/backstage#7576
backstage/backstage#14003
backstage/backstage#10291
backstage/backstage#9476
backstage/backstage#8093
backstage/backstage#6363

What is your Discord username?

Irma#7629

What is the name of your current organization?

Roadie

Any other context that you wish to share

No response

Have you read the Code of Conduct?

• I have read the Code of Conduct

Is your first contribution to Backstage at least 3 months ago?

Yes, I have been contributing to Backstage for at least 3 months

Highlighted Contributions

My main contributions have been to the Kubernetes project area; I've personally made these PRs:

• switched out @kubernetes/client-node for a bespoke k8s client with better error handling: backstage/backstage#15250
• enabled GitLab as an OIDC token provider: backstage/backstage#16401
• added the caFile option: backstage/backstage#15005

And I defined and consulted on a few other features:

• the oidc kubernetes auth provider: backstage/backstage#10284
• most notably, the proxy endpoint: backstage/backstage#12231
• bringing the catalog clusterLocator up to speed with the config one: backstage/backstage#15088

Besides the Kubernetes project area I've made a couple improvements to the GitLab integration (locations backstage/backstage#12774 and org data discovery backstage/backstage#16856), and I've got 7 other merged PRs that were docs only. Finally I've reviewed 26 PRs (mostly concerning Kubernetes or GitLab) since I started contributing, as well as lightly participating in GitHub Discussions and Discord.

What is your Discord username?

jamieklassen#3047

What is the name of your current organization?

VMware

Any other context that you wish to share

At the moment I'm involved in some general-purpose improvements to the microsoft auth provider with backstage/backstage#16323, which should allow for a client-side kubernetes auth provider to use with AKS clusters: backstage/backstage#13685, corresponding with the existing google one for GKE.

Backstage Microservice Plugins Working Group

• Meeting Notes
• Discord Thread

Meeting 1 (Feb 11, 2023)

Video Recording

Meeting 2 (Feb 28, 2023, 10:00AM - 11:00AM EST)

Video Recording not available

Meeting Information

Meeting 3 (March 23, 2023 • 10-11 AM)

Video Recording

Transcript

Meeting #4 (TBD)

Agenda

• [5 min] Greetings
• [20 min] Overview of UI customization challenges by [email protected] of VMWare
• [10 min] Next steps

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