2026-04-29 Conda Ecosystem Meeting

Various parts of the conda ecosystem gather on a regular basis. This meeting brings together all of these sub-communities for a community wide call.

Attendees

@ conda/steering-council:
- vote open for three/four CEPs:
  - Conditional dependencies
  - Optional dependency groups (extras)
  - Simplified variant selection (flags)
  - Soon https://github.com/conda/ceps/pull/157 (__cuda_arch)
- Open RFCs:
  - https://github.com/conda/ceps/pull/151 (url field in repodata records)
  - https://github.com/conda/ceps/pull/154 (indexed_timestamp field in repodata records)
- Ongoing vote in Helios for conda/infrastructure, please cast your ballot. Last day!
- Ongoing vote for graduation of 4 repos: https://github.com/conda/governance/issues/384
@ conda-forge/core:
- Please observe discussion about versioning scheme change for conda-smithy
- Ongoing vote in Helios for staged-recipes, please cast your ballot. Last day!
@ conda/build-tools:
- Check Jakov's request https://github.com/conda/governance/issues/383
conda-workspaces 0.4.0 release out
- Adds support for Pixi.toml in conda
- Future term: Standardize pixi.toml format?
- https://github.com/conda-incubator/conda-workspaces/releases/tag/0.4.0

CHL: Any plans for PyCon US?
- Packaging Summit and Sprint. Last day to sign up from Summit is 30 May.
- Assuming there'll be some sort of security open space
JRG: PURLs (and VERS) SIG? Several CEPs about it, plus the well-known mappings problem.
- https://github.com/conda/ceps/pull/63
- https://github.com/conda/ceps/pull/114
- https://github.com/conda/ceps/pull/159
- Need mappings for vulnerability reporting; SBOMs
DY: PEP 832 coordination
- Brett Cannon mentioned at https://github.com/prefix-dev/pixi/issues/5929#issuecomment-4337348613
- https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-832-virtual-environment-discovery/106998
IF: A more unixy layout for cpython on windows starting with 3.15
- https://github.com/conda-forge/python-feedstock/issues/860