2021-08-18 Conda Community Meeting

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Attendees

Name	Initials	Affiliation	GH Username
Marcel Bargull	MB	Bioconda/cf	mbargull
Cheng H. Lee	CHL	Anaconda	chenghlee
Marius van Niekerk	MvN	Voltron Data	mariusvniekerk
John Lee	JL	Quansight	leej3
Jannis Leidel	JL	Anaconda	jezdez
Sebastien Awwad	SA	Anaconda	awwad
Jaime Rodríguez-G.	JRG	Quansight	jaimergp

Introductions

Announcements

• conda-build 3.21.5 has been released
  • Packages still need to be built for conda-forge, defaults

Standing Items

• Conda Community website mockups
• Outreach to invite more organizations to join this meeting

New Agenda Items

• Supporting new architectures/platforms

  • PR/issues for adding Loongarch:
    • https://github.com/conda/conda/pull/10866
    • https://github.com/conda-forge/miniforge/issues/196
  • Potentially identify/re-engage community members to add FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD support
  • Anaconda & conda-forge already working macOS M1
    • Still need to find native CI support for CF
    • Miniconda installer preview available

• [CJ] Symbol-exporter

  • audits ongoing and mostly positive: https://github.com/symbol-management/api-match-audit

• [MvN] New optional mini-migrator for pure python packages

  • Can determine deps from wheels and update requirements.
    • Example PR:
      • https://github.com/conda-forge/opentelemetry-sdk-feedstock/pull/13
    • PRs about this feature
      • https://github.com/regro/cf-scripts/pull/1422
      • https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-smithy/pull/1496
  • New feature in conda-smithy so that staged-recipes that can allow us to add conda-forge.yml from the recipe definition as part of rendering the feedstock

• [jezdez] conda/conda CI improvments (speed/setup)

  • Purpose is to prepare Conda code base for easier 3rd party contribution
  • Splits unit and integration tests into groups using pytest-split (no precalculation at the moment) for more runners/better parallel tests
  • Moves setup commands into separate files
  • Builds base environment for Linux as Docker image and uploads to GCR
    • maybe for Windows as well?
  • Current state: ~50% runtime
  • https://github.com/conda/conda/pull/10864
    • https://github.com/conda/conda/actions/runs/1143980976

• [CJ] Conda/conda-forge deprecation cycle?

  • e.g., =2.7 matchspec syntax (conda 4.4+?); c-f currently handling by patching repodata.json
  • e.g., __glibc virtual package (conda 4.9+?)
  • Major UX question: how users update conda when it can't read the information needed to update conda (e.g., repodata.json)?

Outstanding Items From the Previous Meeting

Active Votes

Subteam Updates

Open PRs

Discussion

Action items

• [CHL] Dig out why work stopped on conda in its own, isolated environment

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