Technical Meeting 2026-05-13

[liamfallon]

Agenda

1. Action Items Review
2. Presentation by @Jaisheesh-2006 of PR fix(update): preserve Kptfile formatting during upgrades #4427
3. Move of Porch to kpt
4. Flaky e2e tests in Porch
5. PR Triage
6. AOB

Attendance

• @liamfallon
• @Jaisheesh-2006
• @CsatariGergely
• Ahmed Ishaku Samalia
• Catalin Stratulat
• @efiacor
• James McDermott
• @mozesl-nokia
• @timop62

Minutes

Porch topics

PackageRevisionResources Healing

• Check with stakeholders, is there any problem removing the healing?
• 2026-05-13: Waiting on response @liamfallon

Force Pushing to git

• Should we change the git force push flag to “true”? Check with stakeholders.
• 2026-05-13: Waiting on response @liamfallon

Deprecation timeline for the Porch v1alpha1 API

• Thought is to set deprecation on v1alpha1 at the beginning of Q3 2026 and remove v1alpha1 at the beginning of Q2 2027, check with stakeholders @kispaljr
• 2026-05-13: Waiting on response @liamfallon @mozesl-nokia

Presentation by @Jaisheesh-2006 of PR #4427

• Add an overview on the description of the PR
• Address the comments around preserving white space

Move of Porch to kpt

• Porch has moved to kpt
• The work continues witht he backstage plugions and the documentation, see the minutes of the community meeting
• PR raised to do the reference changes.

Flaky e2e tests

• Three issues in tests
• Tests don't start at all: "Error: The action 'Deploy porch kpt pkg' has timed out after 10 minutes."
• DB Cache throws a "already in state DeletionProposed"
• grpc error

fn_runner_test.go:251: FATAL: failed to create resource PackageRevision porch-test-1778578058674458/: Internal error occurred: fn.render: pkg .:
        	pkg.render:
        	pipeline.run: func eval "ghcr.io/kptdev/krm-functions-catalog/apply-setters:v0.2.2" failed: rpc error: code = DeadlineExceeded desc = unable to get the grpc client to the pod for ghcr.io/kptdev/krm-functions-catalog/apply-setters:v0.2.2: error occurred when waiting the pod and service to be ready. If the error is caused by timeout, you may want to examine the pod/service in namespace "porch-fn-system". Error: context deadline exceeded
    panic.go:615: INFO: took 1m10.488470024s to create porch-test-1778578058674458/``` 

• @efiacor will raise a PR to relax the liveness and readiness probe timeouts
• Should we move to kubectl apply rather than kpt live apply in our CI?

PRs to be reviewed

Porch

• WIP: Create remove fetches porch#246: This PR is to be moved into an issue because the PR is too old to easily merge, but the function it implementes would be good to have @nagygergo
• Reduce code duplication across rpkg CLI commands porch#541: Needs rebase and update so that it handles the v1alpha2 changes that were recently merged. Once those actions are taken, the PR should be OK to merge subject to a final review.
  • 2026-05-13: Reviewed byt he technical meeting, comemnts added to PR
• porchctl improvements porch#554: On hold, PR 541 must be merged first
• WIP: Refactor Performance Tests and add Grafana, Pyroscope and Prometheus monitoring stack porch#561: Outstanding comments
• Add package resource file sizes to PackageRevision interface porch#954: Outstanding comments
• Add SubpackageDir to API to support clone and upgrade of independent subpackages in a PR porch#974: Ready for review
• Add documentation for FunctionConfig CRD and reconciler porch#976: Outstanding comments
• Add PrrSizeBytes to v1alpha2 PackageRevision status porch#977: Outstanding comments (v1alpha2 version of kpt fn sink should allow merge strategies #954)
• Remove hardcoded MetalLB IPs from local dev scripts and tests porch#978: Outstanding comments
• docs: add versioned docs build with tag-based snapshots porch#980: Ready for Review
• Change references to Nephio to kptdev porch#981: Ready for review

kpt

• Replace random generated "inventory ID" #4396 - Needs rebase, but ready for review
• Docs/wasm function support #4419 - Community must decide if we wish to document the WASM functionality and decide whether to merge this PR or not, add to agenda for the community meeting next week.
• fix(update): preserve Kptfile formatting during upgrades #4427
  • 2026-03-18: needs rebasing and some copilot comments to be resolved. This could be very problematic to resolve ... needs a careful review
• 2026-04-22: Comments still not addressed
• 2026-05-06: Coments are addressed, @Jaisheesh-2006 will present this PR at the kpt technical meeting next week.
• feat: add builtin runtime support #4430 - We should decide if we need the mutation pipeline rearchitect work to be done before this is merged.
• 2026--05-06: Unadressed comments on the PR, no updates on PR since last month
• Update kyaml and kustomize API versions in catalog functions #4432 - has unadressed comments, see # almost identical fix: improve path validation in Kptfile functionConfig #4470, no action
  • There are lots of non related changes in the PR, no action from the author. If not change from the author next week we should close them.
  • 2026-05-06: No updates from author
• Refactor update logic in pkg/lib/kptops (cleanup + structure improvements) (#4379) #4441 - DCO problem, very large PR
  • There are lots of non related changes in the PR, no action from the author. If not change from the author next week we should close them.
  • 2026-05-06: No response from the author to invitation to present the PR at the community meeting.
• Split/fn eval namespace #4444 - has unadressed comments
  • On hold for now
• test: Update fn render E2E tests to use :latest set-namespace #4445 - has unadressed comments
  • On hold for now
• Fix GitHub Actions conditional expression in go.yml #4446
  • There are lots of non related changes in the PR, no action from the author. If not change from the author next week we should close them.
  • 2026-05-06: No response by author to suggestion to start fresh
• fix: remove porch references from kpt docs (#4288) #4453 - Ready for review
  • There are lots of non related changes in the PR, no action from the author. If not change from the author next week we should close them.
• docs: Add comprehensive documentation for kpt v1.0.0 API stabilization #4466 Test failures and copilot comments to be handled
  • There are lots of non related changes in the PR, no action from the author. If not change from the author next week we should close them.
• feat: Stabilize ResourceGroup API to v1 with backward compatibility #4467 Ready for review
  • There are lots of non related changes in the PR, no action from the author. If not change from the author next week we should close them.
  • 2026-05-06: No response by author to comments
• build: Implement semantic versioning in build system #4468
  • There are lots of non related changes in the PR, no action from the author. If not change from the author next week we should close them.
  • 2026-05-06: No response by author to comments
• feat: Add CEL-based conditional function execution (#4388) #4469 - address Copilot comments, Tests are failing, new PR with rebase of feat: Add CEL-based conditional function execution (#4388) #4391
  • 2026-05-06: The work for the v1 API will clean up the tests tat are causing this PR to fail, we should put this on hold and merge it once the tests are fixed.
• fix: improve path validation in Kptfile functionConfig #4470: @mozesl-nokia will comment regarding the go.mod changes
  • There are lots of non related changes in the PR, no action from the author. If not change from the author next week we should close them.
  • 2026-05-06: No response by author to comments
• fix: Improve kpt version command output and add comprehensive tests #4479
  • There are lots of non related changes in the PR, no action from the author. If not change from the author next week we should close them.
  • 2026-05-06: No response by author to comments
• Proofreading chapter 2 #4487 - Needs to address Copilot comments
  • 2026-05-06: Outstanding comments
• : docs: Add comprehensive documentation for kpt v1.0.0 API stabilization #4499
  • 2026-05-06: No response yet to comment on aligning with the community direction
• fix(live): propagate caller ctx into ResourceGroup inventory ops #4501
  • 2026-05-06: Outstanding comments
• Validate function tag literals before execution #4503
  • 2026-05-06: Approved, just needs to have the conflicts resolved.
• feat: add 'cat' command for displaying package resources #4505
  • 2026-05-06: Outstanding comments
• Bump documentation go and docsy version #4511
  • 2026-05-06: Awaiting review from @CsatariGergely
• Improve FunctionConfig related validation errors #4512
  • 2026-05-06: Ready for review
• Move more code out of internal #4515
  • 2026-05-06: Ready for review

krm-functions-catalog

• feat: port generate-folders function from TS to Go krm-functions-catalog#1216
• Move delete-annos fn from contrib krm-functions-catalog#1231
• Guideance on copyright notices and AI agent attributions krm-functions-catalog#1233
• Update favicons to the new logo krm-functions-catalog#1237

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