2022-08-17 Conda Community Meeting
Attendees
Name | Initials | Affiliation | GH Username |
---|---|---|---|
Cheng H. Lee | CHL | Anaconda/cf | chenghlee |
Ken Odegard | KO | Anaconda | kenodegard |
Bianca Henderson | BH | Anaconda | beeankha |
Dave Clements | DPC | Anaconda | tnabtaf |
John Kirkham | JK | NVIDIA/cf | jakirkham |
Daniel Holth | DH | Anaconda | dholth |
Daniel Ching | DJC | Argonne | carterbox |
Jason McAllister | JMC | Anaconda | Solid-Snake-Jay |
12 people total
Introductions
Announcements
- (CHL; BH) Reminder to vote on Plugins Mechanism Implementation CEP
- 9 YEA, 0 NAY / 16 Steering Council Members
- one more vote until quorum
- (CHL; KO) Reminder to vote on Conda Release Schedule CEP
- 10 YEA, 0 NAY / 16 Steering Council Members
- has reached quorum
- (JMC) SHA-256 checksums went live on anaconda.org yesterday
New Agenda Items
- (JK) Improving dev tooling experience
- https://github.com/conda/conda-build/issues/4559
- https://conda.slack.com/archives/C017C690FLP/p1657693438457519
- (not originally discussed, but related) https://github.com/mamba-org/boa/issues/292
- Particularly when using conda when developing libraries; build in-place type of functionality
- (MS)
conda debug
can create environment based to test. How to tie back in environment changes into the recipe - C++ users with large code bases; improve
conda develop
? - (MS) How do you know a rebuild is needed?
- (JK) CMake caches as does Cython, but not all tools do.
- (CHL) will collect tickets and put together epics to work on this.
- (DPC) Conda Communication Channels Update proposal
- Chat, Forum, Announcements Mailing List
- Is this a good idea?
- What platform choices should we make?
- (JRG) Should focus on forum, not instant messaging
- (DPC) conda.org
- Call for interested team members.
- Content ideas: (DPC) news & events feed
- (CJ) Telemetry, potentially as plug-in
- (CHL) What kind? (CJ) E.g., What was the
conda config
, what was requested, what was installed? - (ED) Interested in internal collection (within a company)? Local telemetry server.
- (CHL) Have discussed at the local level; want to avoid collecting usernames or other PII.
- (JK) What about autofilling a GitHub issue when Conda fails?
- (ED) Idea to submit results to telemetry server and gives a UUID to user (to find issue)
- (BH) Potential extension to
conda doctor
- (CJ) How should we configure plugins? (condarc vs per-plugin config file)
- (CHL) What kind? (CJ) E.g., What was the
- (JK) Anaconda.org feedback
- Past conda-forge feedback doc: https://hackmd.io/AEGxv_-8QIOylb56_wQozg?both
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.