--- tags: [meeting-notes] --- # 2021-04-14 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/2021-04-14/12:00/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 | | Marcel Bargull | MB | Bioconda/cf | @mbargull | | Matthew Becker | MRB | cf | @beckermr | | John Lee | JL | Quansight | @leej3 | | Marius van Niekerk | MvN | cf | @mariusvniekerk | | John Kirkham | JK | NVIDIA/cf | @jakirkham | | Keith Kraus | KK | NVIDIA/cf | @kkraus14 | ## Agenda * Welcome ### Announcements * (Anaconda) conda-package-handling 1.7.3 now available on defaults * (Anaconda) conda 4.10.1 now available on conda-canary channel; expected release to defaults on 2021-04-15. * Changelog: https://github.com/conda/conda/blob/4.10.1/CHANGELOG.md ### Standing Items * Conda Community website mockups * Outreach to invite more organizations to join this meeting ### New Agenda Items * (Anaconda) Bumping OS levels required for packages on defaults * Linux: CentOS 7 or newer; more specifically GNU libc >=2.17 * OS X/macOS: 10.13 or newer * win-32 deprecated soon...ish. * Needed to support, e.g., MKL >=2020, PyTorch 1.8, etc. * Consider reserving `__` prefix for virutal packages. * Nvidia: virtual packages for drivers * Virtual packages as plugins, possibly defined in ``.condarc`? * https://github.com/conda/conda/issues/10131 * Think through how to support CPU- or other hardware-specific features * Want to avoid subdir explosion * Virtual packages probably a cleaner approach * Library for detecting CPU features * https://github.com/workhorsy/py-cpuinfo * "source" subdir, caching sources * Need to preserve the source archives (e.g., bzip2, ICU) * bioconda has cache of tarballs via Galaxy project * updates conda-build to fallback * Ways to pass arguments to activation scripts * E.g., munge `*FLAGS` to set `-mcpu=`, `-march=`; `-std=cxxNN`; Windows SDK version * Should be exposed as machine- and human-readable metadata * Design doc for 5.0 (action item for CHL) * What we would like to see for next-gen conda metadata * What we would like to see for next-gen conda recipe ### Outstanding Items From the Previous Meeting ### Active Votes ### Subteam Updates ### Open PRs ## Discussion ## Action items * CHL: start design doc for 5.0 ## Last meeting points (2020-01-26)