2021-03-17 Conda Community Meeting

--- tags: [meeting-notes] --- # 2021-03-17 Conda Community Meeting * [Meeting link](https://meet.google.com/owq-kbca-abk) * [What time is the meeting in my time zone](https://arewemeetingyet.com/Chicago/2021-03-17/11:00/b/Conda%20community%20meeting) * [Last Meeting's Agenda and Minutes](https://github.com/conda-incubator/governance/tree/master/meetings) ## Attendees | Name | Initials | Affiliation | Username | | ------------ | -------- |------------ | ---------- | | Cheng H. Lee | CHL | Anaconda | @chenghlee | | CJ Wright | CJ | Lab49 | @CJ-Wright | ## Agenda * Welcome ### Announcements * Apologies for the daylight savings scheduling oops. Will move 1 hour ahead for next meeting. * Berryconda (support for 32-bit ARMv7l) looking for a new maintainer: https://github.com/jjhelmus/berryconda/issues/83 ### Standing Items * Conda Community website mockups * Outreach to invite more organizations to join this meeting ### New Agenda Items * Upcoming conda 4.10.0 release (planned around end of March, early April) * Formally dropping support for Python 2.7, Python < 3.6 (_in the base environment_) * https://github.com/conda/conda/issues/10180 * conda-forge, defaults have not supported Py2.7 since 4.8.3 (Mar 2020), Py3.5 since 4.5.11 (Aug 2018) * This only impacts the base environment. Support for non-base Py2.7, < 3.6 envs will continue indefinitely. * Introducing support for artifact verification * First release: sign and verifies metadata in repodata.json * Currently only available as _pilot_ program to subset of Anaconda customers * Mid- to long-term goals include: * Making signed metadata on defaults * Allowing channels like conda-forge to sign packages & metadata * Soliciting community input on signature specifications, functional requirements, etc. * Link to Sebastian's talk: ... * Conda-content-trust: * Other fixes: https://github.com/conda/conda/milestone/47 * New platforms being added to defaults (repo.anaconda.com) * linux-aarch64: targeting "server-class" ARM cores (e.g., Neoverse), but should (mostly) work with other 64-bit ARM CPUs (e.g., Raspi3/4) * linux-s390x: support for RHEL, Ubuntu, SLES on z14, z15 * Anaconda Individual Edition installers available starting 2020.04 * AST & symbol inspection: * https://cf-ast-symbol-table.web.cern.ch/api/v2/symbols/ * https://cf-ast-symbol-table.web.cern.ch/api/v2/symbol_table/ * https://github.com/symbol-management/api-match-audit * Chris Burr: used pwntools to pull out C symbols * Working on adding relative imports; will require data model change ### Outstanding Items From the Previous Meeting ### Active Votes ### Subteam Updates ### Open PRs ## Discussion ## Action items ## Last meeting points (2020-01-26)