--- tags: [meeting-notes] --- # 2022-07-06 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/2022-07-06/17:00/b/Conda%20community%20meeting) ## Attendees | Name | Initials | Affiliation | GH Username | | -------------------------| -------- | ------------- | ------------------ | | Marius van Niekerk | MvN | Voltron Data | mariusvniekerk | | Dave Clements | DPC | Anaconda | tnabtaf | | Matthew Becker | MRB | cf | beckermr | | Eric Dill | ED | Voltron Data | ericdill | | Bianca Henderson | BH | Anaconda | beeankha | | Daniel Ching | DJC | Argonne | carterbox | | Jannis Leidel | JL | Anaconda | jezdez | | Jaime Rodríguez-Guerra | JRG | Quansight/cf | jaimergp | | Filipe Fernandes | FF | conda-forge | ocefpaf | | Cheng H. Lee | CHL | Anaconda | chenghlee | | Katherine Kinnaman | KK | Anaconda | kathatherine | | Ken Odegard | KO | Anaconda | kenodegard | | Sebastien Awwad | SA | Anaconda | awwad | | | | | | | | | | | 19 people present ## Introductions ## Announcements - [x] (JL) New constructor team and move of constructor, conda-pack and menuinst from "federated" to "community" projects (following the conda governance policy) - [ ] mixed maintainer team from Anaconda and other organizations - [ ] conda-standalone possibly also covered (but no separate repo at the moment yet) - [x] Ongoing vote to adopt a new Code of Conduct for conda, steering council members, please vote! - [ ] https://github.com/conda-incubator/governance/pull/49 - [x] CEP 6 (Channel notices) accepted and merged! - [ ] https://github.com/conda/conda/pull/11462 - [x] (BH) Plugins updates - [Conda plugins mechanism CEP](https://github.com/conda-incubator/ceps/pull/32/files?short_path=f0e66da#diff-f0e66dabb51091adcea87317af330c0bdca833ee855341d963e6d634fe3179d6) is on the `conda-incubator` repo and ready for review/discussion! It's related to [this plugins PR](https://github.com/conda/conda/pull/11435) - An introductory blog post has been drafted and will be published once the plugins mechanism CEP is voted on/approved and the plugins PR is merged - [x] (CHL) SciPy 2022 events - Fri 11:30 - 12:00 (Room 203): conda-forge maintainers talk - Sat/Sun, all day (Room TBD): sprints - (Planned) Lightning talk - governance updates - Community attendees: Marius, Wolf, Bianca, Jannis, Cheng ## New Agenda Items - [x] (JRG) CEP: Technical specification for creation, modification and deletion of conda environments - [PR](https://github.com/conda-incubator/ceps/pull/29) - (MRB+others) We don't want breaking changes in this CEP. We want to decide what is a core spec and what is not. - [x] (MRB) Any updates on sha256 and/or .conda? - (CHL) `.conda` support live in prod; upload supported with anaconda-client 1.10.0 - (CHL) Still verifying `.conda` packages sync to CDN for conda-forge, bioconda, etc. - (CHL) SHA256 completed development; in testing, should be rolled out in next release - [x] (DPC) [Fiscal Sponsorship application](https://github.com/conda-incubator/governance/issues/54) is due in 9 days. - Will submit a vote call today. - Will submit application by deadline - Will withdraw if vote does not pass - Will combine with [governance vote](https://github.com/conda-incubator/governance/pull/51) into a single vote. - Vote will be open for two weeks. - [x] (DJC) Should higher build numbers always take precedence when package version is the same? i.e. how to make cuda variants preferred over non-cuda variants? - https://github.com/conda/conda/issues/11581 - Conda-forge docs imply this works for MPI variants https://conda-forge.org/docs/maintainer/knowledge_base.html#mpi-variants-in-conda-forge - Could add [`track_features` to deprioritize](https://docs.conda.io/projects/conda-build/en/latest/resources/define-metadata.html#track-features), but that's kinda(?) discouraged. This is the behavior used in conda-forge for things like `"python *pypy"`, `"arrow-cpp *-cuda"` - [x] (JRG) conda-libmamba-solver 22.6 is out! - It works on your `base` environment! - Compatible with conda-build - Some fixes and performance improvements - (MRB) how is mamba pinned for this one? are we post 0.24 so we don't break things for other bugz? - [x] (KK) CEP: conda Capitalization - https://github.com/conda-incubator/ceps/pull/31 - [x] (DPC) PSA: Communication channel consolidation? - We have too many places for people to ask questions / make announcements relevant to conda. - Look for a proposal later this summer. - [x] (KO) CEP: Conda Release Schedule - https://github.com/conda-incubator/ceps/pull/26 - Proposes bimonthly regular releases (Janurary, March, May, July, September, November) - Proposes using CalVer (YY.MM.MICRO) - We are planning to cut a new conda release (4.14.0/22.7.0) by the end of July ## 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.