2025-03-26 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
Jonathan Helmus	JJH	Anaconda	jjhelmus
Cheng H. Lee	CHL	Anaconda/cf	chenghlee
Wolf Vollprecht	WV	prefix.dev	wolfv
Marco Esters	ME	Anaconda	marcoesters
Dasha Gurova	DG	Anaconda	dashagurova
Jannis Leidel	JL	Anaconda/cf	jezdez
Dawn Wages	DW	Anaconda	dawnwages
Sophia Castellarin	SC	Quansight/cf	soapy1

10 people in total

Introductions

• Dawn Wages (new Director of Community and Developer Relations at Anaconda)

Announcements

• JJH: conda-managed-env : conda package which prevents pip/uv from modifying an environment. Accomplished by adding EXTERNALLY-MANAGED file to the environment.
• Jaime: constructor release 3.11.3
• JL: conda/conda-build March release cycle
• JL: New conda-maintainers members: George Lorch (EM at Anaconda) and Jonathan Helmus!

New Agenda Items

• Jaime: CEPs to vote
  • Before Apr 2nd: Frozen environments, https://github.com/conda/ceps/pull/99
  • Before Apr 2nd: Text spec input files (@EXPLICIT), https://github.com/conda/ceps/pull/79
  • Coming soon, environment.yml: https://github.com/conda/ceps/pull/81
• Jaime: conda/schemas is live again: https://github.com/conda/schemas, https://schemas.conda.org/. Contains menuinst schemas,
• WV: Abi check tool prototype
• WV: pixi shell now also sources autocompletion files