Community Meeting 2026-03-04

[ciaranjohnston]

Attendance

• @ciaranjohnston
• @aravindtga
• @liamfallon
• @timop62
• @mozesl-nokia
• @efiacor

Topics and action items

KubeCon EU 2026

• Liam and Isti were accepted to the Cloud Native Telco Day

Let's do the booth again

• Tuesday 10:15 - 14:40 / Halls 1-5 | Project Pavilion / P-12B
• Volunteers:
  *@CsatariGergely, @liamfallon, @ciaranjohnston
• What do we show
  • Roadmap
  • Example use cases
    • We should have a dry run of the use cases in next weeks community meeting
  • Elevator pitch of kpt -> @ciaranjohnston
  • 2026-02-25: Ciaran started to work on some example use cases as part of the blog work
  • 2026-03-04: @ciaranjohnston proposes a walkthrough on March 11th

Maintainer Summit

• @liamfallon , @ciaranjohnston and @CsatariGergely will be there
• https://maintainersummiteu2026.sched.com/

KubeCon EU 2026 f2f developer meetings - side meetings during main conference

Proposed topics

• @ciaranjohnston @liamfallon @mozesl-nokia @CsatariGergely @kispaljr will attend at least
• We need to study mutation pipelines. Can we move the Porch mutation pipelines to kpt?
• Clean up the kpt repo
• Refactor the kpt code following the port of improvements from Porch EPIC: Refactor the kpt code following the port of improvements from Porch #4378
• kpt to v1
• docs versioning
• kpt - Porch border

Logistics

• @CsatariGergely to organize
• 2 * 1.5 hours
• Preferably during lunch time

Render KRM Function Catalog and kpt.dev to the same domain

• 2025-10-29: in progress, few different solutions while maintaining the two separate domains are under discussion
• 2026-01-14: Almost done. The only missing thing is to remove the new window opening when the function catalog link is clicked -> Gergely
• 2026-01-21: No progress
• 2026-01-28: Open Function Catalog in the same tab #4362 - done
• 2026-02-04 - small bug still when navigating from the catalog back to the main site
• 2026-02-11: Moving back from the function catalog to the main site still opens a new tab
• 2026-02-18: No progress
• 2026-02-25: Open menu items in same tab and remove installation menu point krm-functions-catalog#1219 created, but needs more work
• 2026-03-04: the CI is hanging on the above PR, wait for @CsatariGergely to return to support in unblocking / troubleshooting

Close off remaining actions on cncf/sandbox#154 - all

• Transfer of the trademarks / contribution agreement
• 2025-11-19: looks like this is well under control based on Kubecon discussion between @CsatariGergely and Daniel Krook
• 2026-01-14: No update from Daniel. Gergely will ping Daniel.
• 2026-01-21: No update from Daniel. Gergely will ping Daniel.
• 2026-02-04: Still no update - perhaps we can get someone at KubeCon
• 2026-02-11: No progress.
• 2026-02-18: No progress.
• 2026-02-25: No progress.
• 2026-03-04: No progress. Maybe corner someone at Kubecon to see if there is something that can be done to progress?

Triaging of issues - in progress, start next week's meeting

• Kill issues obviously non replaceable or Porch related
• Prioritize new issues
• 2025-11-19: PRs were cleared down - the ones left were unknown or should be merged. Still need to triage issues - will do that next week's meeting
• 2026-02-04: Did some triaging - Avoid the use of external diff tools for the kpt pkg diff command #1808 is next to be done
• 2026-02-11: @liamfallon checked all the prs. There are new functions in the catalog, there is one documentation pr in kpt ([WIP] Function SDK guide #3367)
• 2026-02-18: Got to tree command should optionally (?) show whether a package is dependent or independent #1845

CNCF Blogpost about kpt

• We should do it!
• Content should be similar to the talk what we planned
• A: Gergely will start working on this with CNCF
• 2025-11-19: still TBD
• 2026-01-14: still no progress
• 2026-01-21: still no progress
• 2026-01-28: question asked at the maintainers circle channel on CNCF slack - still waiting for an answer - start writing this week by planning here: Blog post on kpt for CNCF website #4370
• 2026-02-04: no progress
• 2026-02-11: @ciaranjohnston proposed a skeleton. Let's use this skeleton as a basis.
• 2026-02-18: Fill this for CNCF to publish the blogpost: https://form.asana.com/?k=Ufi_ZE31X3EAKMTiplIEcA&d=9283783873717. @ciaranjohnston drafted most of the blogpost. See it here: Blog post on kpt for CNCF website #4370 (comment)
• 2026-02-25: We should have an articles section in the website. We did not submit the publication form yet.
• 2026-03-04: no progress

We need a project mission for kpt. This is needed for the project control session

• A: Gergely to reboot a discussion on Slack about this
• kpt mission is "Automate Kubernetes Configuration Editing"
• 2025-11-19: @CsatariGergely to bump the discussion back up
• 2026-01-14: @CsatariGergely to really bump the discussions. Let's define the mission in next weeks meeting.
• 2026-01-21: We did this and can be removed from the list.
• 2026-01-28: Issue created to update the mission - we need to contact the formation team, @CsatariGergely will do that
• 2026-02-04: message sent today
• 2026-02-11: Gergely to answer formation@linuxfoundation.org-s question
• 2026-02-18: Pending
• 2026-02-15: Done. Next step is to update the logo in the control center.
• 2026-03-04: no progress

Update project logo in the control center - @CsatariGergely

Logo

• Gergely will replace the old logo to the new in the README.md of kpt
• 2026-01-21: Logo not yet replaced
• 2026-01-28: still pending
• 2026-02-04: still pending
• 2026-02-11 still pending
• 2026-02-18: Still pending
• 2026-02-25: Still pending
• 2026-03-04: closed with Adding new logo #4416

Google Summer of Code

• Submitted waiting for the results
• Gergely can not log in to the GSoC site
• @liamfallon and @ciaranjohnston could log in
• 2026-03-04: no updates

Contributing guides

• Linting and AI comments should be either resolved or marked non relevant before humans will review the code
• Add to contribution guidelines and to the pr templates

Proposal from @liamfallon for guidelines:

Process for Code reviews, before a “human” code review a PR:
* Must have all tests passing
* Must have all linting passing
* Must meet code quality criteria (coverage etc)
* Must have all automatically generated comments addressed (AI generated comments, SonarCloud comments, bot generated comments etc)
* Where possible, automatic comments should be resolved
* If it is not possible to resolve an automatic comment, please add a sub-comment indicating why the automated comment cannot be resolved or ask for help in resolving the comment

• 2026-03-04: @liamfallon will work on the text in porch for a contributor guideline and then bring here

Branch protection rules

• Set "comments to be resolved to true" -> @CsatariGergely

Dosu (https://dosu.dev/)

• An AI tool, to
  • Provide a chatbot
  • Help writing docs
  • Auto respond issues and pr-s
  • Auto tags issues a prs
• Gergely configured to the kpt repo
• There are still things to figure out
• 2026-02-18: Dosu is only lgtm-ing pr-s, but not really doing anything else.
• 2026-02-25: Dosu started to create documentation pr-s @CsatariGergely should configure it to create documentation only to merged pr-s
• 2026-03-04: no updates, settled down

PRs to be reviewed in kpt

• Make UpstreamLock more generic #4413 - Just created - 2025-03-04 - will be reviewed and merged. Need a corresponding PR on porch to remove these types
• Updated location of configmap-v1.json to a reachable destination #4424 - @ciaranjohnston to fix the copilot issue before merge
• Proofreading of chapter 1. #4417 - please proofread this
• Add render status conditions to Kptfile #4418 - ready to be reviewed
• Fix #1407: Make 'kpt pkg get' use current directory when '.' is specified #4334 - @ciaranjohnston to review copilot proposals
• test: Update set-namespace E2E tests to use :latest version #4420 - needs comprehensive rewrite of the test cases to handle newer output from the functions. Philosophical debate about the relative merits of using "latest" versus a specific version - overall position of the people on the call today was that we move to "latest" on the balance of trade-offs