2022-08-03 Conda Community Meeting
Attendees
Name | Initials | Affiliation | GH Username |
---|---|---|---|
Jannis Leidel | JL | Anaconda/cf | jezdez |
Ken Odegard | KO | Anaconda | kenodegard |
Travis Hathaway | TH | Anaconda | travishathaway |
Dave Clements | DPC | Anaconda | tnabtaf |
Filipe Fernandes | FF | conda-forge | ocefpaf |
Sebastien Awwad | SA | Anaconda | awwad |
Cheng H. Lee | CHL | Anaconda/cf | chenghlee |
Eric Dill | EDD | voltrondata/cf | ericdill |
Katherine Kinnaman | KK | Anaconda | kathatherine |
Cheuk Ho | CH | Anaconda | Cheukting |
John Kirkham | JK | NVIDIA/cf | jakirkham |
18 people total
Introductions
- Cheuk Ho
- Srivas Venkatash
Announcements
- (JL) Proposing/call for votes on Plugins Mechanism Implementation CEP
- (JL; KO) Proposing/call for votes on Conda Release Schedule CEP
- (KO) conda 4.14.0 and conda-build 3.22.0 releases are being tagged/published today
New Agenda Items
- (TH) Should we form a project group for Plugins? Assuming it passes the vote :-)
- (TH) Project groups: how do those work? Do we have other initiatives that deserve a separate project group?
- (JL) Link for regular subteams (needs 50% of votes) https://github.com/conda-incubator/governance#sub-team-formation
- (JL) Alternative could be an incubating project team, which just needs one steering council member to create it: https://github.com/conda-incubator/governance#incubation (with added barrier to later move to conda org)
- (TH) Project groups: how do those work? Do we have other initiatives that deserve a separate project group?
- (DPC) Call for Outreachy Intern project proposals
- If we can get funding from Anaconda, do we have any projects and mentors for an Outreachy intern?
- Community applications are due in a little over a month. Project submissions will be due sometime after that.
- (DPC) Call to consolidate conda community channels into fewer and better advertised locations
- Proposal
- Chat (Gitter, Element/Matrix, Slack,...)
- Longer form / Forum (Discourse,...)
- Close down any channels we don't embrace
- Redirect those posting on other channels (Twitter, Facebook) to our select channels
- (JRG) Ideas from other communities:
- Napari uses Zulip for almost everything, but it's also part of large "scientific imaging" Discourse instance - there's a bot syncing some stuff between sources.
- Jupyter has... a bunch of platforms, including Discourse, Gitter and Mailing lists.
- Numpy has a simpler approach
- Historical resources for conda support: https://docs.conda.io/en/latest/help-support.html
- Next steps: CEP, probably. DPC will reach out to conda-forge, bioconda to get their input.
- Proposal
- (JRG) Github archeology request for constructor: why was conda-standalone introduced and what is the expected behaviour? Should it really run a full solve at install time? That prevents a number of constructor v2 features from working (
exclude
, forced reinstalls).- https://github.com/conda/constructor/issues/319
- (MS) Probably an oversight that we're using conda-standalone. Definitely shouldn't be a reason to run a full solve when installing.
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.