[03/07/2025] Score Community Meeting

[mathieu-benoit]

Community call	Info
Meeting Link	Join via Google Meet or call +49 40 8081618260 (Pin: 599 887 196)
Meeting Time	1:00-2:00pm UTC, every first Thursday of the month
Attendees	@mathieu-benoit @chris-stephenson

Updates since last meeting:

• New Examples Hub! https://docs.score.dev/examples/
• New score-k8s generate feature! [feature request] Add --namespace and --generate-namespace flags for score-k8s generate score-k8s#172
• As a follow up from last meeting, both community-provisioners and community-patchers repos are now listed there:
  • https://clotributor.dev/search?foundation=cncf&project=score
  • https://clomonitor.io/projects/cncf/score
• Releases:
  • 1 for https://github.com/score-spec/score-go/releases
  • 5 for https://github.com/score-spec/score-k8s/releases
  • 3 for https://github.com/score-spec/score-compose/releases
  • 2 for https://github.com/score-spec/community-provisioners/releases
  • 2 for https://github.com/score-spec/community-patchers/releases

Community highlights:

• Update: More blog posts from the community: https://docs.score.dev/docs/community/
  • https://medium.com/@mabenoit/generate-your-backstage-software-catalog-files-with-score-b62aa33e8ecc
• New contributors (thanks!): https://score.devstats.cncf.io/d/52/new-contributors-table?orgId=1

In progress:

• 1st anniversary as CNCF Sandbox - blog post by @mathieu-benoit coming soon
• "KubeCon NA 2025 Milestone": KubeCon NA 2025 - Facilitating adoptions and contributions
  • Improve onboarding of new contributors and end users
  • "initContainers"
  • Microcks example
  • More community patchers and provisioners examples

Open discussions:

• Cancelling/skipping next meeting in August as a "Summer break"?
• Windows distribution of score-k8s cannot be used score-k8s#191
• What is the semantic meaning of the `metadata.name` field? #147
• score-aca discussion

Call for more contributions:

• https://clotributor.dev/search?foundation=cncf&project=score

[mathieu-benoit]

Meeting notes:

• https://medium.com/@mabenoit/generate-your-backstage-software-catalog-files-with-score-b62aa33e8ecc
  • @chris-stephenson mentioned that actually this needs was raised when Score applied to join the CNCF, let's capture this to quote this too. Update: found it here indeed, good alignment here! ;)
• @chris-stephenson's follow up on survey and blog post, still in brainstorming phase for now
  • Small form to capture pain points, and learn more from the community
• Other potential runtimes/implementations to look at:
  • How to track individually all these needs in order to track concrete and specific --> issues in spec? Discussion in spec? --> Let's do issue to make it more accessible and simple. In spec? Or maybe in a new dedicated score-implementations repo because it's not part of the spec itself, so to avoid confusion?
  • CloudFlare containers: https://developers.cloudflare.com/containers/
  • Apptainer: https://apptainer.org/docs/user/main/quick_start.html + modal - question raised here: https://cloud-native.slack.com/archives/C07DN0D1UCW/p1751153198528239?thread_ts=1751121387.064799&cid=C07DN0D1UCW
  • K8s CRs (Kratix, Kro, Crossplane) - how to make easier to generate manifests for both workloads and resources?
  • Same as above for Terraform?
  • Same as above for Bicep?
  • Open question: is there any opportunity to make easier creating a new Score implementation?
    • Reusable functions/entry points in score-go?
    • Same question in here https://github.com/score-spec/score-implementation-sample?
• We need to make progress on Ordered Container Start in Score - containers.*.before.containers|ready #136, @chris-stephenson may be able to help, based on this [feature request] Support of Ordered Container Start score-go#118, let's add more logic in this score-go branch + also create a dedicated branch/PR in score-compose to tackle this [feature request] Support of Ordered Container Start score-compose#321.
• Next Score community meeting will be on August 7th 2025, @astromechza and @chris-stephenson will run it while @mathieu-benoit will be ooo.