2023-05-10 Conda Community Meeting

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.

Attendees

Name	Initials	Affiliation	GH Username
Jannis Leidel	JL	Anaconda/conda	jezdez
Bianca Henderson	BH	Anaconda	beeankha
Travis Hathaway	TH	Anaconda
Filipe Fernandes	FF	conda-forge	ocefpaf
John Kirkham	JK	NVIDIA/cf	jakirkham
Jesse Wiles	JW	Anaconda	jessewiles
Katherine Kinnaman	KK	Anaconda	kathatherine
Jaime Rodríguez-Guerra	JRG	Quansight/cf	jaimergp
Katherine Abrikian	KCA	Anaconda	kalawac

9 people in total

(JL) Vote running to graduate conda-dot-org project from conda-incubator to conda main GitHub organization: https://github.com/conda-incubator/conda-dot-org/issues/110
(BH) May releases (for conda and conda-build) will be getting worked on
(KK) GSoD Tech Writer chosen for conda.org!
- https://github.com/conda-incubator/conda-dot-org/discussions/125

(JK) Updates on Conda org setup?
(JK) Conda-build recipe format updates
- https://github.com/prefix-dev/rattler-build#the-recipe-format
- (JRG) https://gist.github.com/jaimergp/3a1dcdf524583a93529f0d122e61856a
- (JL) Standardize what we have. Then evolve that standard forward to one of these choices
- (JL) Plugins for formats?
(JK) Conda-build multiple format outputs / conversion
- example right now: wheels
  - https://docs.conda.io/projects/conda-build/en/latest/resources/define-metadata.html#output-type
  - (also related) https://github.com/conda-incubator/conda-press
- some other package formats come up: RPMs
  - https://github.com/pelson/conda-rpms
- Maybe overlaps with packaging roundtable discussion?
- JL: could be a plugin API to maintain separately?
- JL: WebAssembly also came up
- JL: Maybe plugin framework (like in Conda) could be used here?
- JK: conda pipbuild
  - (removed) https://github.com/conda/conda-build/blob/01bd8b4ac7d781cf9846a82708ffbec68832d7f5/conda_build/main_pipbuild.py
(JRG) conda/schemas revamp
(JRG) EuroScipy 2023 @ Basel: Maintainers track.