TEP-0168: Sunset tektoncd/catalog for tektoncd-catalog Distributed Architecture - #1283
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…chitecture Propose sunsetting the centralized tektoncd/catalog repository in favor of a fully distributed catalog architecture. Supersedes TEP-0003 and TEP-0079. Key points: - Two-tier model: curated tektoncd-catalog repos (Tier 1) and community-owned catalogs (Tier 2) - Freeze-don't-migrate sunset for tektoncd/catalog - Artifact Hub as the single discovery layer - Template repository and reusable GitHub Actions to make it trivially easy to create and publish catalogs - Keyless signing via Sigstore (Fulcio + Rekor)
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Thanks for this! It looks good to me.
The trust signals on ArtifactHub are really a key aspect.
The "Official"one can be reserved to cases where the code wrapped by the tasked is maintained by the author of the task.
The Tekton Community maintained tasks may not be easy to identify from the trust signal alone, but actually that's not that important, if a Task it's high quality and maintained that's all that matters.
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- Remove orphaned CLI Scaffolding TOC entry (no section exists) - Reconcile signing requirement: MUST for Tier 1 graduation, not a gate for initial Tier 2 adoption - Clarify multi-resource Artifact Hub registration - Fix reference link formatting (one per line) - Add explicit dependency: archive only after graduation complete
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Summary
Propose sunsetting the centralized
tektoncd/catalogrepository in favor of a fully distributed catalog architecture. This TEP supersedes TEP-0003 (Tekton Catalog Organization) and TEP-0079 (Tekton Catalog Support Tiers), building on TEP-0110 and TEP-0115.Core idea: separate discovery (Artifact Hub) from endorsement (whoever maintains the resource).
Key points:
tektoncd-catalog/*repos maintained by active maintainers (Tier 1) and community-owned catalogs anywhere (Tier 2)tektoncd/catalog— archive read-only, pinned references keep workingtekton.dev/deprecatedhiding sunset resources from search/kind tep