2024-08-28 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
Cheng H. Lee	CHL	Anaconda/cf	chenghlee
Filipe Fernandes	FF	conda-forge	ocefpaf
Jaime Rodríguez-Guerra	JRG	Quansight	jaimergp
Katherine Kinnaman	KK	Anaconda	kathatherine
Klaus Zimmermann	KZ	Quansight	zklaus

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Introductions

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Announcements

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New Agenda Items

• (WV) Security Subteam formation
  • Goal: implement package signing (SigStore) and other state of the art technologies for conda packages
  • Apply for funding with e.g. OpenSSF
  • Wolf pushing for this to not miss potential funding opportunities
  • First step: create subteam by creating an issue in conda/governance
• (JK) Adding CLA files
  • https://github.com/conda/cla/pull/5
  • Next steps? How to sign from Nvidia?
  • Official source of truth would be really useful.
• (JK) Updating Conda's behavior with channels (like defaults)
  • https://github.com/conda/conda/issues/12356
  • https://github.com/conda-incubator/setup-miniconda/issues/207
  • https://github.com/conda/conda/issues/14178
  • JRG: defaults these days is opt-out. Should it be opt-in? IMO yes.
  • KZ: defaults should require authentication, that would allow tracking.
• (JK) Suppress Jinja errors in skipped conditions
  • https://github.com/conda/conda-build/pull/5458
• (JK) Conda GH permissions? Who should have access?
  • Are we able to add steering council members here?
  • https://github.com/conda/conda/issues/13526
• (JRG) Packaging Windows launchers.
  • Experiment at https://github.com/conda-forge/staged-recipes/pull/27419
  • Would be nice to have its own repo, similar to what conda/conda-standalone does
  • Name ideas? conda-[python-]launchers?