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# 2024-02-28 Conda Community Meeting

[Zoom link](https://zoom.us/j/9138593505) · [What time is the meeting in my time zone](https://dateful.com/convert/utc?t=5pm)

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.

## Attendees

| Name | Initials | Affiliation | GH Username |
| ---------------------- | -------- | ------------ | ---------------- |
| Marcel Bargull | MB | Bioconda/cf | mbargull |
| Filipe Fernandes | FF | conda-forge | ocefpaf |
| Cheng H. Lee | CHL | Anaconda/cf | chenghlee |
| Travis Hathaway | TH | Anaconda | travishathaway |
| Klaus Zimmermann | KZ | Quansight | zklaus |
| Katherine Kinnaman | KK | Anaconda | kathatherine |
| Daniel Holth | DH | Anaconda | dholth |
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X people in total

## Introductions

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## Announcements

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## New Agenda Items

- [x] (CHL) PyCon 2024 and other conferences; anyone attending?
- Anaconda might have some presence at PyCon US
- Some Anconda/conda folks helping to organizing PyCon US packaging summit
- WV at PyCon US (talk), PyCon DE, SciPY US
- [X] (TH) New plugin settings hook planned for hopefully being released in 24.03.x
- Allows plugin authors to define their own settings
- These plugins will be accessible under `plugins.*` in config files
- Settings will be accessible under `CONDA_PLUGINS_*` in environment variables
- More information in the PR: https://github.com/conda/conda/pull/13554
- [x] (JRG) [CEP-15](https://github.com/conda-incubator/ceps/blob/main/cep-15.md) and base_urls
- Want to use this for ecosystems like Napari, Spyder
- Implementation? I see this as the resurrection of "static metachannels" :) :japanese_goblin:
- [conda/conda#13137](https://github.com/conda/conda/issues/13137) still open
- [ ] (WV) New CEPs?
- [ ] Thinking of extras and optional dependencies.
- https://github.com/conda-incubator/ceps/pull/55
- Looking at PyPI, but also other ecosystems (Recommends/Suggests in deb)
- Where to store the extras info:
- Markers in `depends`? Could also enable win-only dependencies on noarch.
- New field `extras={extras-name: [packages]}`
- [ ] Tried JLAP, but thinking sharded repodata would be more performant.
- Can be fetched in parallel, and caches more easily.
- MB: Suggests using a small index file with the mapping, so sharding doesn't get too fine grained.
- More recipe CEPs: cache, Jinja, tests, how the rendered recipe looks like
- (CHL) Re-start work on microarchitecture/CPU-features dependent builds
- https://github.com/conda-incubator/ceps/issues/59
- https://github.com/conda-forge/staged-recipes/pull/24306
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