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# 2022-08-31 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/2022-08-31/17:00/b/Conda%20community%20meeting)

## Attendees

| Name | Initials | Affiliation | GH Username |
| -------------------------| -------- | -------------- | ------------------ |
| Dave Clements | DPC | Anaconda | tnabtaf |
| Marius van Niekerk | MvN | Voltron Data | mariusvniekerk |
| Katherine Kinnaman | KK | Anaconda | kathatherine |
| Cheng H. Lee | CHL | Anaconda/c-f | chenghlee |
| Matthew R Becker | MRB | cf | beckermr |
| Filipe Fernandes | FF | conda-forge | ocefpaf |
| Bianca Henderson | BH | Anaconda | beeankha |
| Eric Dill | ED | Voltron Data / conda-forge | ericdill |
| Sebastien Awwad | SA | Anaconda | awwad |
| Daniel Holth | DH | Anaconda | dholth |
| John Kirkham | JK | NVIDIA/cf | jakirkham |
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13 people total.

## Introductions

## Announcements

- We have under 900 open conda issues! 🎉

## New Agenda Items

- [x] (JK) Handling overlapping `*`s ( https://github.com/conda/conda/pull/11612 )
- Any thoughts?
- CHL: seems like we should deal with it. Maybe one of several corner cases.
- Way we handle mutexes is to encode information in build strings; makes it challenging to select multiple bits of information
- [x] (JK) Unexpected `*` behavior with `!=` ( https://github.com/conda/conda/issues/11744 )
- Which implementation of this should we be using?
- Globbing is favored. Regex is not how it is written up. We treat it as a glob elsewhere.
- (CHL) Want to avoid regex because versions would get _really_ annoying.
- [x] (MRB) Status of this PR: https://github.com/Anaconda-Platform/anaconda-client/pull/614
- Just asked, haven't heard.
- Needed anaconda.org server changes should be deployed 2022-09-06 (Tues); anaconda.org client should be released shortly thereafter.
- [x] (DPC) Outreachy
- Community applications for Dec. 2022 -- Mar. 2023 cohort due end of next week
- Actual project submissions are due a week or two after that.
- But we should only submit a conda community application if we know we will have projects.
- [x] (DPC) Governance
- Two people, or not two people, [that is the question](https://github.com/conda-incubator/governance/pull/74).
- [x] (DPC) Conda Channel Consolidation report
- conda.discourse.org requested
- Element actually looks viable.
- [x] (FF) Naming (and packaging) julia packages
https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-forge.github.io/issues/1822
- naming standards
- [x] (SA) conda signature verification public feature preparation (questions, tests, CEP, integrations?)
- What we be useful for Seb to provide here?
- No input at this time
- [x] (DPC) [conda-env-builder](https://github.com/nh13/conda-env-builder) and incubation in general
- overlap with conda-lock.
- Should we avoid too many tools doing similar/same things in the conda org?
- General consensus was welcome overlapping tools,
- Have each tool clarify wghhat the other options are.
- [ ] (CJW) Add an additional script type
- post-create, a post environment creation hook.
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## 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.