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# 2022-04-27 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/2022-04-27/17:00/b/Conda%20community%20meeting)

## Attendees

| Name | Initials | Affiliation | GH Username |
| ------------------- | -------- | ------------- | ---------------- |
| Travis Hathaway | TH | Anaconda | travishathaway |
| Daniel Holth | DH | Anaconda | dholth |
| Cheng H. Lee | CHL | Anaconda | chenghlee |
| Daniel J. Ching | DJC | Argonne | carterbox |
| Dave Clements | DPC | Anaconda | tnabtaf |
| Matthew R Becker | MRB | cf | beckermr |
| Kartik Raj | KR | Python VSCode | karrtikr |
| Marcelo D. Trevisani | MDT | conda-forge. | marcelotrevisani |
| Katherine Kinnaman | KK | Anaconda | kathatherine |
| Jaime Rodríguez-G. | JRG | Quansight/cf | jaimergp |
| Bianca Henderson. | BH | Anaconda | beeankha |
| Tobi Koch | TJK | Anaconda | tobijk |
| Mike McCarty | MM | NVIDIA | mmccarty |
| Jannis Leidel | JL | Anaconda/cf | jezdez |
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22 People total

## Introductions

* Daniel Holth, author of wheel and a few other packaging-related Python PEPs
* Travis Hathaway, software engineer and tinkerer

## Announcements

## Standing Items

## New Agenda Items

* (TH) Adding "Channel Notifications" to conda (see CEP proposal here: https://github.com/conda/ceps/pull/19/files)
* (JK) Consider adding notifications conditional on a package (e.g., provide deprecation only if the user installed the package)
* (JK) Channel CDN mirroring time
* In progress @ Anaconda: adding SHA-256 checksums to .org server; exploring ways to avoid running `conda index` on C-F repository
* (JK) Checking in on transitive constraints issue ( https://github.com/conda/conda-build/issues/3308 )
* (JK) Extending build strings ( https://github.com/conda/conda-build/issues/3939 )
* (DH) repodata.json deltas experiment (https://repodata.fly.dev/, https://github.com/dholth/ceps/blob/main/cep-incremental-repodata.md)
* (SA) Thinking through how this impacts signed repository metadata
* (JA) Could we use this for chronological expiration of parts of repodata.json?
* PR: https://github.com/conda/ceps/pull/20, rendered https://github.com/dholth/ceps/blob/main/cep-incremental-repodata.md
* (CHL) Defining a conda API library
* Why? Common code base for conda-adjacent projects to use
* What should be in it?
* Common exception hierarchy
* MatchSpec (https://github.com/conda/conda/issues/11234)
* VersionOrder (maybe)
* (CHL) Windows Docker images for conda-forge
* Visual Studio licensing questions
* https://github.com/conda-forge/docker-images/pull/209
* (KR) Learn about why certain things in conda are not done by default
* Possibility of doing `conda init` by default or as part of `conda activate`? Nope users don't like us messing with their shell configs
* Discuss how conda not installing python by default affects the extension

## Deferred Agenda Items

## Outstanding Items From the Previous Meeting

([Previous meeting notes](https://hackmd.io/GD0NBIu9SEuOCgF4-N5NHw?view).)

## Active Votes

## Subteam Updates

## Open PRs

## Discussion

## Action items

## Last meeting points

## 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.