2025-01-29 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/cf	jaimergp
Filipe Fernandes	FF	conda-forge	ocefpaf
Matthew R Becker	MRB	conda-forge	beckermr
Katherine Kinnaman	KK	Anaconda	kathatherine
Klaus Zimmermann	KZ	Quansight	zklaus
Parsa Bahraminejad	PB	Prefix.dev	prsabahrami
Marius van Niekerk	MvN	Voltron Data	mariusvniekerk
Dasha Gurova	DG	Anaconda	dashagurova
Jannis Leidel	JL	Anaconda/conda	jezdez
Tania Allard	TA	Quansight	trallard

10 people in total

Introductions

• Parsa, part of Prefix.

Announcements

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New Agenda Items

• (JRG) Code of conduct WG in NumFOCUS, informative session. Volunteers?
  • February 13: 9:00–10:00 AM PST
  • February 19: 21:00–22:00 PM PST
  • March 4: 8:00–9:00 AM PST
• (WV/PB) WIP Optional & conditional dependencies
  • Syntax: foo[extras=[baz,bar]]
  • Conditional: foo; if linux
    • JRG: Similar to https://peps.python.org/pep-0496/, which can serve as a good starting point
  • CEP still outstanding
  • JRG: Zulip threads xrefs
    • https://conda.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/457607-general/topic/Optional.20dependencies.20.2F.20conditional.20dependencies
    • https://conda-forge.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/457337-general/topic/PyPI.20style.20.22extras.22.20for.20the.20conda.20ecosystem
  • JL:
    • Cover https://github.com/conda/ceps/pull/55
• (WV) sigstore being silently rolled out on prefix.dev soon
  • Attestations from Github are accepted
  • We need to define a predicate type to use for conda packages
• (WV) Jinja changes in rattler-build
  • More types added: boolean and integers
  • There is interest in adding list
  • Undefined variables are now a fat error
    • JRG: https://github.com/mitsuhiko/minijinja/pull/687
  • Python bindings available!
• (JL) Progress status of rattler-build adoption in conda-forge?
  • WV: 600+ recipes migrated. Minimigrators still pending.
  • MvN: Safe bet for simple recipes like single output noarch: python.
  • Some chatter about automated migrations, Jinja {% if/for %} complications, conda-recipe-manager, and hadim/feedrattler
• (JRG) Follow up on conda.org domain records for Bluesky's conda account and schemas.conda.org? :)
  • Cheng looking into it.