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# 2021-08-18 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/2021-08-18/12:00/b/Conda%20community%20meeting)
* [Last Meeting's Agenda and Minutes](https://github.com/conda-incubator/governance/tree/master/meetings)
## Attendees
| Name | Initials | Affiliation | GH Username |
| ------------------ | -------- |-------------- | --------------- |
| Marcel Bargull | MB | Bioconda/cf | mbargull |
| Cheng H. Lee | CHL | Anaconda | chenghlee |
| Marius van Niekerk | MvN | Voltron Data | mariusvniekerk |
| John Lee | JL | Quansight | leej3 |
| Jannis Leidel | JL | Anaconda | jezdez |
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| Sebastien Awwad | SA | Anaconda | awwad |
| Jaime RodrÃguez-G. | JRG | Quansight | jaimergp |
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### Introductions
### Announcements
* conda-build 3.21.5 has been released
* Packages still need to be built for conda-forge, defaults
### Standing Items
* Conda Community website mockups
* Outreach to invite more organizations to join this meeting
### New Agenda Items
* Supporting new architectures/platforms
* PR/issues for adding Loongarch:
* https://github.com/conda/conda/pull/10866
* https://github.com/conda-forge/miniforge/issues/196
* Potentially identify/re-engage community members to add FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD support
* Anaconda & conda-forge already working macOS M1
* Still need to find native CI support for CF
* Miniconda installer preview available
* [CJ] Symbol-exporter
* audits ongoing and mostly positive: https://github.com/symbol-management/api-match-audit
* [MvN] New optional mini-migrator for pure python packages
* Can determine deps from wheels and update
requirements.
* Example PR:
* https://github.com/conda-forge/opentelemetry-sdk-feedstock/pull/13
* PRs about this feature
* https://github.com/regro/cf-scripts/pull/1422
* https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-smithy/pull/1496
* New feature in conda-smithy so that staged-recipes that can allow us
to add conda-forge.yml from the recipe definition as part of
rendering the feedstock
* [jezdez] conda/conda CI improvments (speed/setup)
* Purpose is to prepare Conda code base for easier 3rd party contribution
* Splits unit and integration tests into groups using pytest-split (no precalculation at the moment) for more runners/better parallel tests
* Moves setup commands into separate files
* Builds base environment for Linux as Docker image and uploads to GCR
* maybe for Windows as well?
* Current state: ~50% runtime
* https://github.com/conda/conda/pull/10864
* https://github.com/conda/conda/actions/runs/1143980976
* [CJ] Conda/conda-forge deprecation cycle?
* e.g., `=2.7` matchspec syntax (conda 4.4+?); c-f currently handling by patching repodata.json
* e.g., `__glibc` virtual package (conda 4.9+?)
* Major UX question: how users update conda when it can't read the information needed to update conda (e.g., `repodata.json`)?
### Outstanding Items From the Previous Meeting
### Active Votes
### Subteam Updates
### Open PRs
## Discussion
## Action items
* [CHL] Dig out why work stopped on conda in its own, isolated environment
## Last meeting points