2022-06-08 Conda Community Meeting

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Attendees

Name	Initials	Affiliation	GH Username
Cheng H. Lee	CHL	Anaconda	chenghlee
Jannis Leidel	JL	Anaconda	jezdez
Jaime Rodríguez-G.	JRG	Quansight/cf	jaimergp
Dave Clements	DPC	Anaconda	tnabtaf
Carl Anderson	CA	Anaconda	barabo
Daniel J. Ching	DJC	Argonne	carterbox
Katherine Kinnaman	KK	Anaconda	kathatherine
Matthew R Becker	MRB	cf	beckermr
Sebastien Awwad	SA	Anaconda	awwad
Bianca Henderson	BH	Anaconda	beeankha
John Kirkham	JK	NVIDIA/cf	jakirkham
Travis Hathaway	TH	Anaconda	travishathaway
Daniel Holth	DH	Anaconda	dholth
Marcelo Trevisani	MDT	conda-forge	marcelotrevisani
Mike McCarty	MM	NVIDIA	mmccarty

19 people present

Introductions

Announcements

• Vote on CEP 6 (channel notifications) started today!
  • Steering council members, please vote: https://github.com/conda-incubator/ceps/pull/19#issuecomment-1150096980
  • Corresponding PR: https://github.com/conda/conda/pull/11462

New Agenda Items

• (DPC) Governance update

  • Code of Conduct PR will be submitted to Steering Council tomorrow. Current draft is here.
  • Will start applying policies described here to Governance this week. Look for a PR in a week or so.
  • Will also draft a NumFOCUS Fiscal Sponsorship application in next two weeks. Aiming for review in July.

• (CA;DH) conda-incubator/conda-index performance update

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  • Can now clone conda-forge in ~8 minutes on avg; release to prod this week.
  • conda-index now backed by SQLite.
  • Anaconda preparing to open-source code used to clone channels.
  • By end of next week, should be released to all cloned channels (bioconda, pytorch, etc.)
  • Will begin publishing repodata.jlap and current_repodata.jlap (differences beteween successive repodata.json) as an experiment. does not appear in index.html

• (CHL) Windows on ARM support

  • https://github.com/conda/conda/issues/11472
  • Anaconda starting discussions with Linaro on getting this moving
  • Expect conda/conda-build PRs to enable win-arm64 as a supported platform
  • CHL will make introductions to c-f core team.

• (JL) conda 4.13.0/conda-build 3.21.8|9 release incident

  • Incident report: https://hackmd.io/nD5UzWJVQ2mPzYnvQyGqMA?view
  • Various CEPs in draft to improve the situation

• (JRG) conda-standalone & constructor development

  • How should we support these projects as a community?
  • Constructor: want to merge various forks back into main project
    • Napari fork: https://napari.org/developers/packaging.html#constructor-based-installers
    • Anaconda fork currently private; working on-going to upstream differences
    • (JL) Formally ask Steering Council to formally create a constructor project team; general consensus is that we should do this.
    • Continue conversation here: https://github.com/conda/constructor/issues/497
  • (JL) Get Anaconda and c-f conda-standalone recipes to converge

• (MRB) status of anaconda.org support for sha256 and .conda

  • .conda support ready to be released within next week or so.
  • SHA-256 in beta test; initial release will not backfill checksums but will generate SHA-256s for newly uploaded packages.
  • Will the anaconda.org API return SHA-256 for packages? (It should, but SC will check and confirm.)

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.