[01/10/2026] Score Community Meeting

[mathieu-benoit]

Community call	Info
Date	October 1st, 2026
Meeting Link	Join via Zoom or Calendar
Meeting Time	3:00-4:00pm CET/CEST, every first Thursday of the month, unless specified
Attendees	@chris-stephenson @mathieu-benoit @docktorrr @ShantKhatri

Updates & Releases since last meeting:

• https://github.com/score-spec/score-k8s/releases/tag/0.19.0
  • "support ordered container start using initContainers" is finally out!
  • Idea for a bog post or examples in the docs illustrating this (database migration, etc.)

Community updates:

• Score Labspaces is out! We need testers and feedback! https://github.com/score-spec/score-labspace
• July 2026 was the 2nd anniversary as CNCF Sandbox for Score, let's blog about it!
  • Mathieu to draft the blog post, this will likely be released right before KubeCon NA 2026 in November
  • Let's do something around these lines like last year: https://score.dev/blog/celebrating-1-year-as-cncf-sandbox/
• KubeCon NA 2026 in November - https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/features-add-ons/project-opportunities/
  • Kiosk request accepted!
    • Kiosk Shift: Thursday 10:15 AM - 2:00 PM
    • Kiosk Number: P-1B
  • @mathieu-benoit invited at the Maintainer Summit
  • Anyone is going? Let's connect there!

In progress:

• Design: Reusable Go Libraries for Score Implementations by @chris-stephenson
  • https://docs.google.com/document/d/1I-5sm_IFoDOiM4aBwXO05iupVLhspQ2tpHsfOCccUGY/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.zihy4hy02rxj
  • To walk people through during KubeCon NA 2026 in SLC
  • Ideas: V1 integration there, more flexible, generic, etc. targeting a POC to test before KubeCon, and see from there (standalone CLI for now).
• fix: update ContainerBefore structure and ready conditions score-go#222
• fix: derive volume names from the volume source instead of the mount path (#367) score-k8s#371
• Apply the file mode when the mounted file already exists score-compose#559
• chore(deps): bump compose-go to v2.16.1 score-compose#562
• feat: Support placeholder substitution in container image score-k8s#350 + feat: Support placeholder substitution in container image score-compose#538

Call for more contributions:

• For Contributors: https://clotributor.dev/search?foundation=cncf&project=score
• For Maintainers: any good first issues we could document/add in there?

[mathieu-benoit]

Notes updated inline above.

Important note: for the next Community meeting that will be 1-2 weeks before KubeCon, we should have the blog posts out + making sure we align on the messaging/content for the Kiosk and live discussions.