2025-08-13 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
Schuyler Martin	SM	Anaconda	schuylermartin45
Travis Hathaway	TH	Anaconda	travishathaway
Cheng H. Lee	CHL	Anaconda/cf	chenghlee
Lilly Winfree	LW	Anaconda	lwinfree
Ryan Keith	RSK	Anaconda	ryanskeith
Marco Esters	ME	Anaconda	marcoesters
Jaime Rodríguez-Guerra	JRG	Quansight	jaimergp

X people in total

SM: conda-recipe-manager (CRM) v0.6.1 Released last week
- Contains more parsing bug fixes
- The next version of CRM will (probably) contain:
  - Significant logging improvements
  - A series of wrapped parsing exceptions
  - More parsing bug improvements
SM: Filed a request to form a CRM sub-team: https://github.com/conda/governance/issues/270
- Similar to the sub-team that was recently formed for Conda development
- Will allow others to manage the OSS CRM project board

JRG: Discourse spam problem
TH: Label incoming issues for source::* in conda org
- https://github.com/conda/infrastructure/issues/1190 <-- infra issue
- Helps us figure out where an issue comes from
- Keeps things organized
RSK: Proposal to move conda-pack from the constructor team to the conda-maintainers team
WV: requested_specs vs requested_spec
WV: work continuing on extras + conditional dependencies implementations
TH: https://conda.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/457607-general/topic/conda.20roadmap.20format/with/534253885