# conda-forge core meeting 2023-01-25
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## Attendees
| Name | Initials | GitHub ID | Affiliation |
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| Jaime RodrÃguez-Guerra | JRG | jaimergp | Quansight / cf |
| John Kirkham | JK | jakirkham | NVIDIA / cf |
| Dave Clements | DPC | tnabtaf | Anaconda |
| Cheng H. Lee | CHL | chenghlee | Anaconda / cf |
| Jannis Leidel | JL | jezdez | Anaconda / cf |
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9 people total
### Standing items
* [ ] intros for new folks on the call
* [ ] open votes
### From previous meeting(s)
* [ ] (MRB) updates on bots and secrets
* we've centralized most of what we use in 1password
* i've removed some of the keybase files that are old or misleading
* we use github apps for everything where we can
* will develop notes
* [X] (HV) OpenSSL 3: https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-forge-pinning-feedstock/issues/3838
* JRG: Decision was taken to close the migration.
### Active votes
### Your __new__() agenda items
- [x] (JRG) GSoC applications: my ideas
- Application time is open.
- For CZI grant building infrastructure
- Using Docusaurs web site
- Use this momemtum to refactor conda-forge website?
- Example:
- https://czi-cf-docs.netlify.app
- https://github.com/quansight-labs/czi-cf-docs
- No pushback at all.
- [x] (JRG) NumFOCUS SDG for opt-in CI
- Small Development Grant
- https://numfocus.org/programs/small-development-grants
- Applications start ... soon (Feb 15?)
- Build access control for CI.
- They have cycles and out of cycle grant submission.
- out of cycle are less likely to be approved.
- This is not urgent.
- Larger issue
- **Do we need to vote on approving grant submissions?**
- Feeling is no. We notify this group so we don't collide and to see if there are objections, but no formal vote.
- Aligning on Travis?
- Travis has been a little unstable lately.
- https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-forge.github.io/issues/1875
- Could make travis opt in.
- Requires access controls.
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- [x] (JRG) Certificates for signed installers
- Miniforge
- Sign installers that miniforge produces.
- Have a certificate from NumFOCUS for apple, but not windows
- https://github.com/conda-forge/miniforge/issues/201
- Talking to Steve Dower @ Microsoft ( https://github.com/zooba ) for advice
- Could do this for the whole community (?) (see point by Jannis below)
- Need to look up if an EV cert is required and possibly other things (e.g., timestamping)
- Concern about security/access to tokens/passwords on CI by non-core
- Disolve miniforge team?
- Promote them to core?
- Some other way to do signing that avoids this issue?
- ???
- JRG: Minimized in a way with [AzureSignTool](https://github.com/vcsjones/AzureSignTool), which relies on an Azure Vault instead of passing raw certificates.
- CHL: Can get Anaconda supply chain security team to take a look, since that's work we are doing anyways.
- [x] (JL) Conda Installer Team
- [ ] future conda community governance team to handle underlying code/proceses to build conda installers
- [ ] interest into joining miniforge and mambaforge into the team/repo?
- [ ] still in the aligning/team charter writing phase
- [x] (DPC) conda-forge tutorial proposal accepted at PyCon US 2023
- Schedule is not published yet.
- One output is updated docs for conda-forge/staged-recipes
- (JRG) Could create an element room for tutorial q&a
- FF: Seek help from the community. Tweet about possible help room for participants
- [x] (JK) OpenSSL
- TensorFlow was a blocker. Has already been rebuilt.
- Couple others with unknown status.
- With Ruby you need a current version of Ruby
- Same with NodeJS.
- Is this done enough?
- We talked about it in this call. There was no opposition. In fact there was outright support for closing it!
- so: **Yes let's close.**
- Who will do this? JRG will do this.
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### Pushed to next meeting
### CFEPs
* [cfep-12](https://github.com/conda-forge/cfep/pull/23) Removing packages that violate the terms of the source package
* Stalled since May 26, 2020
* Active debate about moving to "broken" vs deleting from conda-forge channel
* Active vote, ends on 2020-03-11
* What were the results of the vote?
* Did we hear back from NumFOCUS? they did the legal seminar which is recorded
* And, see above too.