conda-forge core meeting 2023-02-08

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Attendees

11 people total

Standing items

• intros for new folks on the call

  • Gabriela UX ! at Quanstack, working on Quetz maintainers dashboard
  • Daniel @ Anaconda,

• open votes

From previous meeting(s)

Active votes

Your new() agenda items

• (DPC) Next round of Outreachy is coming.
  • Please start thinking about potential projects.
  • Note that funding from Anaconda has not yet been confirmed.
• (DPC) Propose a joint conda/conda-forge community booth at PyCon US 2023.
  • Jannis will attend PyCon US and is interested in staffing the booth, but can't be in this call
  • No objections, so yes.
  • Cheng: We should reach out to Bioconda as well. Marcel will ask.
• (GV) Demo a prototype for the Quetz maintainers dashboard
  • Link to the prototype
    - The clickable features get highlighted in blue when you click anywhere on the prototype
    - If you want to leave comments, you can do so directly on the prototype, or on this issue
    • SC: This is work from a CZI grant to Quantstack and Quansight.
  • The initial conda-forge status website is here
• (JK) CUDA SDK & CUDA 12 Packaging
  • https://github.com/conda-forge/staged-recipes/issues/21382
  • (KJK) Interactions between core members
• (JK) NSIS stable links
  • https://github.com/conda-forge/nsis-feedstock/issues/23
• (MH) CDTs for GTK-3.0 – Desktop Integration for Qt 5.15
  • Qt Desktop Integration in Linux can benefit from Qt compilation with GTK bindings. The mainly helps integrate desktop apps (Napari, Spyder, and others)
    • The file chooser
    • Font hinting.
    • Theming
    • CDTs pros:
      • Less maintenance.
      • "Older versions" better compatibility?
    • CDT cons:
      • ???
  • Guidance on CDTs
    • mesa/OpenGL?
      • Does not allow visibility of the system GL implementation.
      • Needs more "hacking" and might not work with Centos6, Centos7.
      • Installing a conda-forge package would conflict
    • X11? https://github.com/conda-forge/qt-main-feedstock/pull/114
    • Wayland???
    • GTK? https://github.com/conda-forge/qt-main-feedstock/pull/105
• (JRG) SDG proposal for opt-in CI: https://hackmd.io/6jp_6RxzQ5GTA9ltBgEylg
• (JRG) Enable error_overlinking in existing feedstocks (https://github.com/conda-forge/staged-recipes/pull/21940)
• (DPC) A conda-forge tutorial has been submitted to Open Source On-ramp, a part of Open Source Summit North America 2023

Pushed to next meeting

CFEPs

• cfep-12 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