[04/12/2025] 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 @astromechza @chris-stephenson

Updates since last meeting:

• v1.11.5 and v1.11.6 for https://github.com/score-spec/score-go/releases (dependencies)
• v0.8.0 and v0.8.1 for https://github.com/score-spec/score-k8s/releases (dependencies)
• v0.29.8 and v0.29.9 for https://github.com/score-spec/score-compose/releases (dependencies, image flag shorthand)
• v0.10.3, v0.10.4, and v0.10.5 for https://github.com/score-spec/community-provisioners/releases (microcks, llm-model, and fixes)
• v0.1.7 for https://github.com/score-spec/community-patchers/releases (microcks)
• v3.1.4 and v3.1.5 for https://github.com/score-spec/setup-score/releases (dependencies)

Community highlights:

• https://medium.com/google-cloud/score-docker-compose-to-deploy-your-local-llm-models-10aff89686ce
• KubeCon NA 2025 Atlanta
  • https://score.dev/blog/score-at-kubecon-na-2025-in-atlanta/
  • https://github.com/mathieu-benoit/score-kro-demo
  • Mathieu to write a blog post about activities, collaborations and learnings
• New Score implementation: https://github.com/score-spec/score-radius
  • This will be demo next week there: Dec 9 2025, Community Meeting Agenda radius-project/community#97
• Author blog post on Humanitec v2 score implementation score.dev#95 (@astromechza)

In progress:

• Enabling the Docker Sponsored OSP for Score: [feature request] Use the Docker’s Sponsored Open Source Program score-compose#376
• KubeCon EU 2026 (Amsterdam)
  • https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/
  • Maintainer Summit -
    • Mathieu accepted/invited
    • Who else? https://register.linuxfoundation.org/kccnc-eu-maintainer-summit-2026
  • 2 talks submitted by @mathieu-benoit and friends: 🤞
    • Score + Microcks
    • Score + Kro
  • Kiosk for Score asked 🤞

Demos:

• score-radius by @mathieu-benoit
• Docker Sponsored OSP by @mathieu-benoit

Open discussions:

• [Initiative]: Specification for declaring application integration dependencies cncf/toc#1797
• Can we switch from ad-hoc google calendar over to LFX https://www.cncf.io/calendar/? (@astromechza)

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?

Appendix download counts

score-compose

  ┌─────────┬──────────────────┬─────────────────┐
  │ Release │ Publication Date │ Total Downloads │
  ├─────────┼──────────────────┼─────────────────┤
  │ 0.29.9  │ 2025-11-22       │ 231             │
  │ 0.29.8  │ 2025-11-11       │ 192             │
  │ 0.29.7  │ 2025-10-30       │ 385             │
  │ 0.29.6  │ 2025-10-23       │ 427             │
  │ 0.29.5  │ 2025-09-30       │ 261             │
  └─────────┴──────────────────┴─────────────────┘

score-k8s

  ┌─────────┬──────────────────┬─────────────────┐
  │ Release │ Publication Date │ Total Downloads │
  ├─────────┼──────────────────┼─────────────────┤
  │ 0.8.1   │ 2025-11-22       │ 736             │
  │ 0.8.0   │ 2025-11-11       │ 507             │
  │ 0.7.0   │ 2025-10-26       │ 948             │
  │ 0.6.4   │ 2025-10-23       │ 140             │
  │ 0.6.3   │ 2025-09-30       │ 607             │
  └─────────┴──────────────────┴─────────────────┘

weekly normalised download rate

  ┌────────────┬───────────────────────────────────┬───────────────────────────────┐
  │ Week Start │ score-compose Avg Daily Downloads │ score-k8s Avg Daily Downloads │
  ├────────────┼───────────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────────┤
  │ 2025-09-29 │ 11.35                             │ 26.39                         │
  │ 2025-10-06 │ 11.35                             │ 26.39                         │
  │ 2025-10-13 │ 11.35                             │ 26.39                         │
  │ 2025-10-20 │ 39.72                             │ 39.77                         │
  │ 2025-10-27 │ 44.48                             │ 59.25                         │
  │ 2025-11-03 │ 32.08                             │ 59.25                         │
  │ 2025-11-10 │ 19.54                             │ 47.97                         │
  │ 2025-11-17 │ 17.54                             │ 49.10                         │
  │ 2025-11-24 │ 17.77                             │ 56.62                         │
  │ 2025-12-01 │ 17.77                             │ 56.62                         │
  └────────────┴───────────────────────────────────┴───────────────────────────────┘

[astromechza]

Action item for @astromechza to set up new calendar invite + zoom link. For 1pm-2pm CEST.

[mathieu-benoit]

• Let's switch from ad-hoc google calendar over to LFX https://www.cncf.io/calendar/? (@astromechza)
  • Definitely!
  • @astromechza working on this, thanks!
• KubeCon NA 2025 - yet another success for collaboration and awareness - @mathieu-benoit to share insights and learnings
• KubeCon EU 2026 - Maintainer Summit + Talks + Kiosk in progress
• Stats from @astromechza, great idea! Let's get these for any meeting moving forward.
• Let's definitely tag this one [feature request] Support Compose models score-compose#367 as good first issue
• @chris-stephenson is making progress about [feature request] Support of Ordered Container Start score-compose#321
  • validations function in progress: placeholders, etc.
  • non schema validations
  • extension capabilities to anticipate
  • As a rough ideas for next steps:
    • PR and review and merge in score-go
    • Integrate this in score-compose and score-k8s
    • And then do [feature request] Support of Ordered Container Start score-compose#321 from there
• @mathieu-benoit to add @astromechza and @chris-stephenson to the Slack channel related to [Initiative]: Specification for declaring application integration dependencies cncf/toc#1797
• Demos:
  • score-radius by @mathieu-benoit
    • how to a better together story between Score and Radius
    • https://github.com/score-spec/score-radius/blob/main/docs/quickstart.md
    • let's see what the Radius's community will say!
  • Docker OSPO by @mathieu-benoit
    • how can we make Score projects more secure
    • [feature request] Use the Docker’s Sponsored Open Source Program score-compose#376
    • let's learn from this together and see from there!