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2022-07-20 Conda Community Meeting

Attendees

NameInitialsAffiliationGH Username
Travis HathawayTHAnacondatravishathaway
Ken OdegardKOAnacondakenodegard
Matthew BeckerMRBcfbeckermr
Eric DillEDDvoltrondataericdill
Jaime Rodríguez-GuerraJRGQuansight/cfjaimergp
Cheng H. LeeCHLAnacondachenghlee
Katherine KinnamanKKAnacondakathatherine
Daniel J. ChingDJCArgonnecarterbox
Bianca HendersonBHAnacondabeeankha
Carl AndersonCAAnacondabarabo
Daniel HolthDHAnacondadholth
Marcelo Duarte TrevisaniMDTconda-forgemarcelotrevisani
Jannis LeidelJLAnaconda/cfjezdez
John KirkhamJKNVIDIA/cfjakirkham

21 people present

Introductions

  • Jason McAllister: Anaconda PM for Navigator and Anaconda.org

Announcements

New Agenda Items

  • (CHL) Publishing event to Scientific Python calendar

    • https://scientific-python.org/calendars/
    • (JRG) we will need to make sure we are serving the needs for a broader audience in the right way:
      • Process for the agenda: open on Monday, close on Tuesday, discuss on Wednesday, to avoid too much noise in the meeting
      • Recordings?
      • Meeting notes: who is in charge of writing things down, and update the community website accordingly
      • In essence, make it nice for everyone who wants to join
      • There must be resources out there set by other communities we can reuse / be inspired by
  • (WV) conda env removal

    • https://github.com/conda/conda/issues/11633
    • (WV) does it go too far? :)
    • (KO) not advocating for its removal (ATM), rather to freeze it until everything gets sorted
    • Need UX research to understand how different user personas interact with existing commands (e.g., experienced vs new users)
    • (JRG) Generally Inconsistency in commands and flags
    • (MRB) conda env export is something we definitely need to keep
  • (KK) conda.org website planning introduction

    • https://github.com/conda-incubator/conda.org
    • #conda-dot-org on conda slack channel
    • looking for community input
    • Also looking for help on how we manage such a website in a sustainable way (content moderation, maintenance, new features, etc.)
  • (JRG) Custom S3 channels documentation / tests?

    • (JL) Will ask internally at Anaconda if other teams have worked on this
  • (DJC) CFEP License packages for header-only/static libraries

    • https://github.com/conda-forge/cfep/pull/47
    • tl;dr header-only/static library packages should run_export an empty package (which contains the license text)
    • (WV) Should this be a run_export, or should we add a new license_export key to conda-build?

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.