2022-05-11 Conda Community Meeting

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Attendees

Name	Initials	Affiliation	GH Username
Jannis Leidel	JL	Anaconda/cf	jezdez
Bianca Henderson	BH	Anaconda	beeankha
Travis Hathaway	TH	Anaconda	travishathaway
Dave Clements	DPC	Anaconda	tnabtaf
Daniel Holth	DH	Anaconda	dholth
Dan Meador	DM	Anaconda	ltdan33
Kartik Raj	KR	Python VSCode	karrtikr
Cheng Lee	CHL	Anaconda	chenghlee
Jaime Rodríguez-Guerra	JRG	Quansight/cf	jaimergp
Katherine Kinnaman	KK	Anaconda	kathatherine
Matthew Becker	MRB	cf	beckermr
John Kirkham	JK	NVIDIA/cf	jakirkham
Marcelo Trevisani	MDT	conda-forge	marcelotrevisani

17 people total.

Introductions

Announcements

• (DH) Bandwith savings for repodata.json and performance improvements on conda index (affecting conda-forge latency) are in progress

• (BH/JL) Calling for vote on CEP 2 - Add plugin architecture to Conda

  • Originally "accepted" without vote, now fixing that procedual oversight
  • Rendered: https://github.com/conda/ceps/blob/main/cep-2.md
  • Pull request (2021!): https://github.com/conda/ceps/pull/1
  • Another CEP for the plugin infrastructure coming next meeting.
  • Called for vote: https://github.com/conda-incubator/ceps/issues/23

• (JL) Calling for vote on CEP 3 - Using the Mamba solver in conda

  • Rendered: https://github.com/conda/ceps/blob/cep-3-draft/cep-3.md
  • Pull request (current): https://github.com/conda/ceps/pull/2
  • Implementation: https://github.com/conda-incubator/conda-libmamba-solver
  • Related documentation deep-dive: https://github.com/conda/conda/pull/11059
  • Called for vote: https://github.com/conda-incubator/ceps/pull/2#issuecomment-1128611445

• (TH) CEP 6, "Channel Notices", PR is nearing completion, vote to follow next meeting

  • Rendered: https://github.com/conda/ceps/pull/19
  • Pull request: https://github.com/conda/conda/pull/11462

• (DPC) Code of Conduct sub-team proposal.

  • (DPC probably can't create a call for a vote...)
  • Proposal: https://github.com/conda-incubator/governance/issues/46
  • Slack Channel: https://conda.slack.com/archives/C03E30MKVGA

Standing Items

New Agenda Items

• (DPC) Governance finalization

  • Want to finalize governance and move it out of incubation. Finalization might include proposed updates to voting / membership rules.
  • Should this be a formal sub-team, everyone who is in the #governance channel, or somewhere in between?
  • (DPC) will submit PR an issue, leave it open for community input, then submit a PR, and then call for a vote by current steering council.

• (KR) Discuss a problematic issue with conda run and VSCode

  • Issue to discuss: https://github.com/conda/conda/issues/11305
  • Check status on https://github.com/conda/conda/issues/11174
    • Severity should probably be raised.
    • A simple fix isn't enough: https://github.com/conda/conda/pull/11257#issuecomment-10505313
    • More context: https://github.com/conda/conda/issues/11174#issuecomment-1051328468

• (JRG) Increase number of CI runners in conda-incubator

  • How is conda-incubator org related to conda?

• (JL) New conda CLA GitHub Action

  • Previous implementation used Heroku, problematic due to recent security breach there
  • Now based on a reusable GitHub action workflow
  • https://github.com/conda/actions/pull/35

• (DM) conda summit

  • During SciPy (July 13-15th) in Austin (after Anaconda homecoming).
  • Anaconda can house people who want to help on sprints (if its approved)
  • What is valuable to cover?
    • Governance announcement?
    • Roadmap plan and discussion?
    • In person CEP discussion/voting?
    • Conda internal deep dive?
  • Calls for volunteers to help

Deferred Agenda Items

Outstanding Items From the Previous Meeting

(Previous meeting notes (2022-03-02).)

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.