These are design documents for changes to KubeBuilder (and cross-repository changes for related projects, like controller-runtime and controller-tools). They exist to help document the design processes that go into writing KubeBuilder, but may not be up-to-date (more below).
Not all changes to KubeBuilder need a design document -- only major ones. Use your best judgement.
When submitting a design document, we encourage having written
a proof-of-concept, and it's perfectly acceptable to submit the
proof-of-concept PR simulatenously with the design document, as the
proof-of-concept process can help iron out wrinkles and can help with the
Example section of the template.
KubeBuilder documentation (the book and the GoDoc) should be considered the canonical, update-to-date reference and architectural documentation for KubeBuilder.
However, if you see an out-of-date design document, feel free to submit a PR marking it as such, and add an addendum linking to issues documenting why things changed. For example:
# Out of Date
This change is out of date. It turns out curly braces a frustrating to
type, so we had to abandon functions entirely, and have users specify
custom functionality using strings of Common LISP instead. See #000 for
more information.