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tags: [meeting-notes]
title: '2024-09-04'
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# conda-forge core meeting 2024-09-04

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- [Zoom link](https://zoom.us/j/9138593505?pwd=SWh3dE1IK05LV01Qa0FJZ1ZpMzJLZz09)
- [What time is the meeting in my time zone](https://dateful.com/convert/utc?t=5pm)
- [Previous meetings](https://conda-forge.org/community/minutes/)

## Attendees

| Name | Initials | GitHub ID | Affiliation |
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| MRB | MRB | beckermr | cf |
| Bianca Henderson | BH | beeankha | Anaconda |
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### Standing items

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### From previous meeting(s)

- [x] (MRB) pip-feedstock dropping setuptools+wheel as deps
- https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-forge.github.io/issues/2252

### Active votes

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### Your __new__() agenda items

- [x] (MRB): turning on branch protection for feedstocks
- https://github.com/conda-forge/admin-migrations/pull/118
- summary: no member of conda-forge or core team member will be able to force push to main
- if a member of core needs to force push, they can turn off the setting by hand and do so
- TODO: try a few git ops
- [x] (MRB) infra+bot update FYI
- slowly moving to harden rerendering and other sensitive operations
- if you see outages or bugs, let me know!
- [x] (KZ) m2w64 compiler migrator: https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-forge-pinning-feedstock/issues/6364
- The migrator didn't look at build requirements, only host.
- This was fixed in https://github.com/regro/cf-scripts/pull/2995

### Pushed to next meeting

- [ ] (JK) AlmaLinux 8 / GLIBC 2.28
- [ ] CDTs
- https://github.com/conda-forge/cdt-builds/issues/66
- [ ] Using images
- https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-forge-pinning-feedstock/issues/6283
- [ ] (JK) CUDA 12 migration close out?
- https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-forge-pinning-feedstock/pull/6263
- How to handle CUDA 12.x?
- [ ] (JK) (When would we like to) close Python 3.12 migration?
- https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-forge-pinning-feedstock/issues/5892
- [ ] (JK) NumPy 2 (check-in)
- https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-forge.github.io/issues/1997
- [ ] (JK) R 4.4 / UCRT (check-in)
- https://github.com/conda-forge/r-base-feedstock/issues/325
- [ ] (JRG): Asking for feedback in this issue about CPU instructions, `-march` flags, etc
- [ ] https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-forge.github.io/issues/2251
- [ ] (MRB) noarch changes
- we're debating shifts to how we do noarch
- https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-forge.github.io/issues/2210

### CFEPs

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