2024-01-31 Conda Community Meeting

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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/cf	jezdez
Jaime Rodríguez-Guerra	JRG	Quansight/cf	jaimergp
Marcel Bargull	MB	Bioconda/cf	mbargull
Schuyler Martin	SM	Anaconda	schuylermartin45
Travis Hathaway	TH	Anaconda	travishathaway
Katherine Kinnaman	KK	Anaconda	kathatherine
Ryan Keith	RK	Anaconda	ryanskeith
Filipe Fernandes	FF	conda-forge	ocefpaf

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Introductions

• Jaida (Anaconda) from Distro team.

Announcements

• [JL] conda, conda-build, conda-index and conda-libmamba-solver January releases are coming

  • https://github.com/conda/conda-index/releases/tag/0.4.0
  • https://github.com/conda/conda-libmamba-solver/releases/tag/24.1.0
  • https://github.com/conda/conda-build/issues/5134
  • https://github.com/conda/conda/issues/13486

• [KK] Miniconda docs are moving domains soon-ish

  • From docs.conda.io to docs.anaconda.com
  • This is to continue separating Anaconda and conda and friends concerns, since Miniconda is a smaller Anaconda Distribution

New Agenda Items

• Memes

• Call for Easter eggs

  • Snake game while an environment is solving

• GitHub macOS 13 and 14 runner images don't contain miniconda anymore

  • GH doesn't intend to fix it (allegedly)
  • https://github.com/actions/runner-images/issues/9262#issuecomment-1918858684
  • New focus on setup-miniconda? Time to graduate?
  • MB: Create issues in setup-miniconda for:
    • Which warnings to be added.
    • Suggested use cases in the absence of Miniconda.
    • New name candidates?
      • conda/setup-action? (to account for multiple installers)
    • Maintenance risks.
    • $CONDA users are 2k+: https://github.com/search?q=%24CONDA%2F+path%3A.github%2Fworkflows%2F*&type=code