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# 2022-09-28 Conda Community Meeting
* [Meeting link](https://zoom.us/j/9138593505?pwd=SWh3dE1IK05LV01Qa0FJZ1ZpMzJLZz09)
* [What time is the meeting in my time zone](https://arewemeetingyet.com/UTC/2022-09-28/17:00/b/Conda%20community%20meeting)
## Attendees
| Name | Initials | Affiliation | GH Username |
| -------------------------| -------- | -------------- | ------------------ |
| Dave Clements | DPC | Anaconda | tnabtaf |
| Travis Hathaway | TH | Anaconda | travishathaway |
| Cheng H. Lee. | CHL | Anaconda/c-f. | |
| Bianca Henderson | BH | Anaconda | beeankha |
| Jaime Rodríguez-Guerra | JRG | Quansight/c-f | jaimergp |
| Daniel Ching | DJC | Argonne | carterbox |
| Filipe Fernandes | FF | CF | ocefpaf |
| Daniel Holth | DH | Anaconda | dholth |
| John Kirkham | JK | NVIDIA/cf | jakirkham |
| Sebastien Awwad | SA | Anaconda | awwad |
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15 people total
## Introductions
* Nope
## Announcements
* [x] Conda 22.9.0 has been released
## New Agenda Items
* [x] (KO) Calling votes on [Deprecation Policy CEP](https://github.com/conda-incubator/ceps/pull/27)
* [x] (DPC) - [conda.discourse.group](https://conda.discourse.group/) will go live right after this call
* *unless there are objections*
* [Announcement is here](https://conda.discourse.group/t/announcing-the-conda-community-forum/50)
* Will announce in Gitter, Twitter, Slack.
* Will also post to [conda Google Group](https://groups.google.com/a/anaconda.com/g/conda), **and will suggest that we shut that down by end of 2022.**
* Future conda, conda-build gitter channels
* [x] (CHL) What should we do with `conda verify` and associated message in `conda build`?
* No releases since 2019; not actively maintained AFAIK
* JRG: I want this back in some form if we get funding :)
* JRG, CHL: in favor of removing the message from conda-build; worry about future of conda-verify later
* [x] (DH) CCalling votes on [Incremental repodata (.jlap) CEP](https://github.com/conda-incubator/ceps/pull/20)
* [x] (CHL) How should we handle Python patch releases that break things?
* Context:
* CVE-2020-10735 (`str`/`int` denial-of-service): fixed in CPython 3.7.14, 3.8.14, 3.9.14, 3.10.7
* CVE-2015-20107 (ACE in `mailcap` module): fixed in CPython 3.11 beta. No progress upstream (yet) on backporting fixes to 3.7 - 3.9 branches.
* conda-forge:
* Generally ships what upstream ships
* May give downstream packages (e.g., SymPy) warning before releasing update CPython packages
* Anaconda
* Will probably either backport `mailcap` patches and/or nuke the module from `python` packages
* [x] (CHL) Starting to write a grammar for match specs
* [ ] (MB) CalVer
* (JRG) CalVer makes it explicit that there are no API guarantees.
* But hurts community developers who rely on stable APIs
* conda-build, conda-smithy, mamba would be hard to upgrade if forced to have tighter pins
* (MRB) Should we start a CEP or open an issue to formally define a stable API?
## What is this meeting for?
Various parts of the conda community gather on a regular basis. This meeting brings together all of these sub-communities for a community wide call.