2024-09-11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jaime Rodríguez-Guerra | JRG | Quansight | jaimergp |
| Jannis Leidel | JL | Anaconda/cf | jezdez |
| Bianca Henderson | BH | Anaconda | beeankha |
| Travis Hathaway | TH | Anaconda | travishathaway |
| Marco Esters | ME | Anaconda | marcoesters |
| Wolf Vollprecht | WV | prefix.dev | wolfv |
| Schuyler Martin | SM | Anaconda | schuylermartin45 |
| Marcel Bargull | MB | Bioconda/cf | mbargull |
| Cheng H. Lee | CHL | Anaconda/cf | chenghlee |
| Michael Sarahan | MCS | NVIDIA/cf | msarahan |
| Matthew Becker | MRB | cf | beckermr |
| Katherine Kinnaman | KK | Anaconda | kathatherine |
X people in total
Introductions
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Announcements
- JRG: Warm welcome to our newest Steering Council members: Hind and Tania! Also welcome Matt back from Emeritus!
New Agenda Items
- JRG: OCI over HTTP adapter server. Might be helpful to try OCI channels without having the OCI networking yet:
- Source: https://github.com/jaimergp/conda-oci-forwarder
- Server: https://condaociforwarder-6p3byq6z.b4a.run
- Demo:
conda create --name oci-fwd-test --override-channels -c https://condaociforwarder-6p3byq6z.b4a.run/conda-forge python - Unlikely to sustain actual production loads. If someone needs this, consider deploying a copy for your own use.
- JL: Ongoing working to urgently fix issues within conda related to channel management
- Epic: https://github.com/conda/conda/issues/14217
- Please let us know if you find other footguns in conda
- Authentication code (i.e. binstar token,
anaconda_client.py)
- Authentication code (i.e. binstar token,
- Further announcements from Anaconda related to TOS concerns forthcoming
- Refs: NumFOCUS Infra WG work on recommendating a conda package manager
- JRG: Use this opportunity to properly come up with good communication strategies about what the conda community vs Anaconda differences are. Put the results in conda.org for good source of truth.
- MB: Set up one or more focused calls for this topic and make sure the results of the communication are available in conda.org, conda-forge.org and others
- (ED): TOS acceptance work to integrate within conda-like clients
- refs https://gist.github.com/wolfv/976558221ddc9522819c3dfce53fad13 as a possible source for TOS metadata long-term
- (WV) Blog posts:
- (WV) Conda Chatting with Community
- (WV) rattler moving to conda.org
- (WV) pixi - a new way to use conda packages
- (WV) Security sub group kick off
- (WV) CEPs - optional packages - anything planned?
- (WV) Sharded repodata, status?
- Review needed: https://github.com/conda/conda-index/pull/161
- (WV) Channels.json (externally defined index)
- Fixes "intel" channel
- Emscripten-forge, ...
- https://gist.github.com/wolfv/976558221ddc9522819c3dfce53fad13
- (JL) Communications updates
- Chat: https://github.com/conda/communications/issues/29
- Calendar: https://github.com/conda/communications/issues/33
- Mailing list? (Sympa -> Google?)
- Dave and MRB discussed this a long time ago, and decided against it, but I have the google group