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# 2023-02-01 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/2022-12-07/17:00/b/Conda%20community%20meeting)
## Attendees
| Name | Initials | Affiliation | GH Username |
| -------------------------| -------- | -------------------------- | ------------------ |
| Jannis Leidel | JL | Anaconda/cf | jezdez |
| Dave Clements | DPC | Anaconda | tnabtaf |
| Daniel Holth | DH | Anaconda | dholth |
| Filipe Fernandes | FF | conda-forge | ocefpaf |
| Katherine Kinnaman | KK | Anaconda | kathatherine |
| Mahe Iram Khan | MIK | Anaconda | forgottenprogramme |
| Marius van Niekerk | MvN | conda-forge/conda-steering | mariusvniekerk |
| Jaime RodrÃguez-Guerra | JRG | Quansight/cf | jaimergp |
| Bianca Henderson | BH | Anaconda | beeankha |
| Travis Hathaway | TH | Anaconda | travishathaway |
| Ken Odegard | KO | Anaconda | kenodegard |
| Srivas Venkatesh | SV | Anaconda | sven6002 |
| | | | |
15 people total
## Introductions
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## Announcements
- [x] JL: :lock: [conda-lock has graduated from conda-incubator to main conda organization](https://github.com/conda/conda-lock/issues/319) :tada:
- This may be the first of the projects that originated outside of Anaconda.
- That's a big step forward.
- And it's only the beginning
- Want to move some code from conda-lock to conda itself.
- (libconda may be coming, and it may be useful here)
- [x] JL: Ongoing governance votes:
- [ ] :alarm_clock: [Setting up a new "infrastructure" subteam](https://github.com/conda-incubator/governance/issues/84) (due today!)
- Probably already have enough votes to decide.
- [ ] :skull: [Graduate grayskull from conda-incubator to conda main organization](https://github.com/conda-incubator/grayskull/issues/436) (due 2022-02-07 EOD AoE)
- Now with CRAN and pyproject support!
- Want to add Poetry and Flit support
- When will Grayskull replace the PyPI Skeleton?
- CPAN (or CRAN?) support needed to move closer to Skeleton's set of capabilities
- MVN: We can deprecate the skeleton PyPI parts.
- JL: conda has a deprecation policy.
- We can deprecate a command.
- conda-build work is ramping up (see New agenda items below) and skeleton is low hanging fruit.
- [x] JL: :world_map: [Adoption](https://github.com/conda-incubator/governance/issues/61) of [Anywhere On Earth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anywhere_on_Earth) for vote deadlines in governance policy
- [x] KO: conda 23.1.0 is out on pkgs/main, still stuck on conda-forge
- `mamba`/`libsolv` complains about `repodata.json` with mixed `subdir` (package's `subdir` doesn't match the `repodata.json` `subdir`), conda doesn't check for this hence why the issue wasn't identified earlier
- the conda-build bug with downstream tests has been identified
- https://github.com/conda/conda-build/issues/4750
- https://github.com/conda/conda-build/pull/4763
## New Agenda Items
- [x] JL: [New epic to improve maintenance of conda-build](https://github.com/conda/conda-build/issues/4697)
- [ ] Among other things proposes to transition conda-build into a community project similar to the very successful constructor team
- [x] JL: Intention to launch: Conda Installer Team
- [ ] future conda community governance team to handle underlying code/proceses to build conda installers
- [ ] interest into joining miniforge and mambaforge into the team/repo?
- [ ] still in the aligning/team charter writing phase
- [X] JRG/GV: Brainstorm session for a ["packaging maintainer dashboard"](https://github.com/Quansight-Labs/czi-conda-forge-mgmt/issues/14).
- JRG: [Figma mockups](https://www.figma.com/proto/OyJAi7Xjl1J4Zo0OsMVBV4/Migration-status?page-id=369%3A7874&node-id=370%3A8160&viewport=452%2C-29%2C0.36&scaling=scale-down&starting-point-node-id=370%3A8160) by Gabriela Vives @ QuantStack
- Similar projects about dashboarding and metrics: https://chaoss.community/, https://bitergia.com/bitergia-analytics/
- [x] DPC: PyCon Community booth for conda and conda-forge?
- Tania, Jannis, Bianca, Dave C, will be there
- [x] DPC: Will be submitting something to [Open Source Summit NA](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-summit-north-america/), particularly the Open Source On-Ramp sub-conference
- Deadline is this Sunday
- Talk/Tutorials
- Intro to using conda and/or
- Publishing your software in conda-forge
- Your idea here!
- [x] DH: Working on potentially mamba-interoperable cache locking. Lock new \<cache-hash>.state.json byte 21 to do anything to cached repodata.json; use `refresh_ns` in state to determine cache expiry instead of repodata.json mtime, re https://github.com/conda-incubator/ceps/pull/46
- [x] JRG: Meeting notes archive is out of date (last update in June 2022)
- https://github.com/conda-incubator/governance/tree/main/meetings/archive
- [x] SV: SPIKE ticket (to open): User Experince with including Taxonomy of Exception/Error messages from `conda-build` execution
## 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.