Future of KFP Tekton backend

[HumairAK]

In the KFP community call on 2024-11-06 it was decided to put out a PSA regarding the future of Tekton.

KFP Tekton was introduced in KF 1.9, the maintainers of the KFP Tekton feature have since left the project. As such, there currently is no existing commitment by any group or individual(s) to continue support for such a large feature. This has resulted in accumulative tech debt, and the expectation is it will have various negative trickle down impacts on the rest of the project.

This notice is a call to action for any one in the community, or organization that would like to commit to the support of this feature. Our current impression is that this feature is not very popular and has minimal to no users. In the off chance we are incorrect in this assessment, we want to give the community the opportunity help provide support for this feature if they are willing to volunteer for it.

In the call there was agreement to give a 1 month notice and opportunity for someone or group to commit to the role of maintaining the Tekton backend support. If we are unable to find a sufficient replacement for maintainership of this feature within a month, we will be removing this from the codebase in a subsequent release.

Please feel free to volunteer in this thread, in slack, KFP call, or reach out to me via DM on slack. Thanks.