2022-04-27 Conda Community Meeting

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Attendees

Name	Initials	Affiliation	GH Username
Travis Hathaway	TH	Anaconda	travishathaway
Daniel Holth	DH	Anaconda	dholth
Cheng H. Lee	CHL	Anaconda	chenghlee
Daniel J. Ching	DJC	Argonne	carterbox
Dave Clements	DPC	Anaconda	tnabtaf
Matthew R Becker	MRB	cf	beckermr
Kartik Raj	KR	Python VSCode	karrtikr
Marcelo D. Trevisani	MDT	conda-forge.	marcelotrevisani
Katherine Kinnaman	KK	Anaconda	kathatherine
Jaime Rodríguez-G.	JRG	Quansight/cf	jaimergp
Bianca Henderson.	BH	Anaconda	beeankha
Tobi Koch	TJK	Anaconda	tobijk
Mike McCarty	MM	NVIDIA	mmccarty
Jannis Leidel	JL	Anaconda/cf	jezdez

22 People total

Introductions

• Daniel Holth, author of wheel and a few other packaging-related Python PEPs
• Travis Hathaway, software engineer and tinkerer

Announcements

Standing Items

New Agenda Items

• (TH) Adding "Channel Notifications" to conda (see CEP proposal here: https://github.com/conda/ceps/pull/19/files)
  • (JK) Consider adding notifications conditional on a package (e.g., provide deprecation only if the user installed the package)
• (JK) Channel CDN mirroring time
  • In progress @ Anaconda: adding SHA-256 checksums to .org server; exploring ways to avoid running conda index on C-F repository
• (JK) Checking in on transitive constraints issue ( https://github.com/conda/conda-build/issues/3308 )
• (JK) Extending build strings ( https://github.com/conda/conda-build/issues/3939 )
• (DH) repodata.json deltas experiment (https://repodata.fly.dev/, https://github.com/dholth/ceps/blob/main/cep-incremental-repodata.md)
  • (SA) Thinking through how this impacts signed repository metadata
  • (JA) Could we use this for chronological expiration of parts of repodata.json?
  • PR: https://github.com/conda/ceps/pull/20, rendered https://github.com/dholth/ceps/blob/main/cep-incremental-repodata.md
• (CHL) Defining a conda API library
  • Why? Common code base for conda-adjacent projects to use
  • What should be in it?
    • Common exception hierarchy
    • MatchSpec (https://github.com/conda/conda/issues/11234)
    • VersionOrder (maybe)
• (CHL) Windows Docker images for conda-forge
  • Visual Studio licensing questions
  • https://github.com/conda-forge/docker-images/pull/209
• (KR) Learn about why certain things in conda are not done by default
  • Possibility of doing conda init by default or as part of conda activate? Nope users don't like us messing with their shell configs
  • Discuss how conda not installing python by default affects the extension

Deferred Agenda Items

Outstanding Items From the Previous Meeting

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Active Votes

Subteam Updates

Open PRs

Discussion

Action items

Last meeting points

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.