2024-09-11 Conda Community Meeting

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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.

Attendees

Name	Initials	Affiliation	GH Username
Jaime Rodríguez-Guerra	JRG	Quansight	jaimergp
Jannis Leidel	JL	Anaconda/cf	jezdez
Bianca Henderson	BH	Anaconda	beeankha
Travis Hathaway	TH	Anaconda	travishathaway
Marco Esters	ME	Anaconda	marcoesters
Wolf Vollprecht	WV	prefix.dev	wolfv
Schuyler Martin	SM	Anaconda	schuylermartin45
Marcel Bargull	MB	Bioconda/cf	mbargull
Cheng H. Lee	CHL	Anaconda/cf	chenghlee
Michael Sarahan	MCS	NVIDIA/cf	msarahan
Matthew Becker	MRB	cf	beckermr
Katherine Kinnaman	KK	Anaconda	kathatherine

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Introductions

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Announcements

• JRG: Warm welcome to our newest Steering Council members: Hind and Tania! Also welcome Matt back from Emeritus!

New Agenda Items

• JRG: OCI over HTTP adapter server. Might be helpful to try OCI channels without having the OCI networking yet:
  • Source: https://github.com/jaimergp/conda-oci-forwarder
  • Server: https://condaociforwarder-6p3byq6z.b4a.run
  • Demo:
    ​​​​​​​​conda create --name oci-fwd-test --override-channels -c https://condaociforwarder-6p3byq6z.b4a.run/conda-forge python
    

  • Unlikely to sustain actual production loads. If someone needs this, consider deploying a copy for your own use.
• JL: Ongoing working to urgently fix issues within conda related to channel management
  • Epic: https://github.com/conda/conda/issues/14217
  • Please let us know if you find other footguns in conda
    • Authentication code (i.e. binstar token, anaconda_client.py)
  • Further announcements from Anaconda related to TOS concerns forthcoming
  • Refs: NumFOCUS Infra WG work on recommendating a conda package manager
    • https://github.com/orgs/numfocus/discussions/8
  • JRG: Use this opportunity to properly come up with good communication strategies about what the conda community vs Anaconda differences are. Put the results in conda.org for good source of truth.
    • MB: Set up one or more focused calls for this topic and make sure the results of the communication are available in conda.org, conda-forge.org and others
• (ED): TOS acceptance work to integrate within conda-like clients
  • refs https://gist.github.com/wolfv/976558221ddc9522819c3dfce53fad13 as a possible source for TOS metadata long-term
• (WV) Blog posts:
  • (WV) Conda Chatting with Community
  • (WV) rattler moving to conda.org
  • (WV) pixi - a new way to use conda packages
• (WV) Security sub group kick off
• (WV) CEPs - optional packages - anything planned?
• (WV) Sharded repodata, status?
  • Review needed: https://github.com/conda/conda-index/pull/161
• (WV) Channels.json (externally defined index)
  • Fixes "intel" channel
  • Emscripten-forge, …
  • https://gist.github.com/wolfv/976558221ddc9522819c3dfce53fad13
• (JL) Communications updates
  • Chat: https://github.com/conda/communications/issues/29
  • Calendar: https://github.com/conda/communications/issues/33
  • Mailing list? (Sympa -> Google?)
    • Dave and MRB discussed this a long time ago, and decided against it, but I have the google group