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+# K8up Annual Review 2022
+
+This is the very first annual review of the [k8up](https://github.com/k8up-io/) project.
+
+## Background
+
+K8up is a Kubernetes backup operator based on Restic that will handle PVC and application backups on a Kubernetes or OpenShift cluster.
+
+## DevStats
+
+The [K8up DevStats Dashboards](https://k8up.devstats.cncf.io/d/8/dashboards?orgId=1&from=1622498400000&to=1685656799000) shows (from the past two years):
+
+* 6 companies contributed to the project.
+* 18 different contributing developers.
+
+Around 11 releases where made, including one breaking change from 1.x to 2.x.
+
+## Maintainers
+
+The K8up maintainers are tracked in the [GitHub Team "Maintainer"](https://github.com/orgs/k8up-io/teams/maintainer/members), as described in our [OWNERS.md](https://github.com/k8up-io/k8up/blob/master/OWNERS.md) file.
+
+Current Maintainer(s):
+
+| Maintainer       | GitHub Username                                   | Company |
+| ---------------- | ------------------------------------------------- | ------- |
+| Tobias Brunner   | [@tobru](https://github.com/tobru)                | VSHN AG |
+| Simon Beck       | [@Kidswiss](https://github.com/Kidswiss)          | VSHN AG |
+| Nicolas Bigler   | [@TheBigLee](https://github.com/TheBigLee)        | VSHN AG |
+| Fabian Fischer   | [@glrf](https://github.com/glrf)                  | VSHN AG |
+| Lukasz Widera    | [@wejdross](https://github.com/wejdross)          | VSHN AG |
+| Gabriel Saratura | [@zugao](https://github.com/zugao)                | VSHN AG |
+| Liene Luksika    | [@lieneluksika ](https://github.com/lieneluksika) | VSHN AG |
+
+Our wish is to onboard maintainers from outside VSHN AG and hope to find some in the upcoming months.
+
+## Adoption
+
+Adoption of K8up is tracked in our [ADOPTERS.md](https://github.com/k8up-io/k8up/blob/master/ADOPTERS.md) file.
+As of 2023-06-01 we have three adopters documented:
+
+* [VSHN](https://www.vshn.ch)
+* [amazee.io](https://www.amazee.io)
+* [Lagoon](https://github.com/uselagoon)
+
+## Project Goals
+
+### Goals Since Last Review
+
+This is K8up's first review, so there are no past goals to report on.
+
+### Current Project Goals
+
+Project health:
+* Onboard more maintainers from other companies than VSHN AG
+* Increase adoption to gain traction for the project
+* Progress K8up's stability and reliability to be rock-solid and a fully reliable data protection tool
+* Fix annoying bugs which are being discovered while the adoption rises
+
+Features and technology:
+* Renew operator patterns to be on-par with current best practices (e.g. replace controller configuration via environment variables with a configuration CRD)
+* Use native Kubernetes CronJobs for scheduling backup jobs, rather than using our home-grown solution
+* Refresh Restic repository configuration
+* Further enhance the newly built CLI tool
+* Support multiple backups per namespace
+
+## Help from CNCF for the project
+
+The CNCF membership has helped the project already tremendously since it's adoption into it.
+We've seen increased visibility and contribution from various people and organizations.
+Being present on CNCF events like KubeCon EU gave the project a real boost.
+
+## Incubation
+
+Currently, K8up remains a sandbox project. It is not ready to apply for incubation yet, as it hasn't seen broad adoption as of today.
+We also would like to have more maintainers outside VSHN AG and are happy to welcome them.