2026-07-15 Conda Ecosystem Meeting

Zoom link · What time is the meeting in my time zone: 5pm, 2pm

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

1. JRG: Jaime Rodríguez-Guerra (@jaimergp), Quansight, CF/C, C/SC
2. DJC: Daniel Ching (@carterbox), NVIDIA, CF/SR
3. BZ: Bas Zalmstra (@baszalmstra), Prefix.dev, CF/C, C/SC
4. LC: Lucas Colley (@lucascolley), Pixi
5. PZ: Pavel Zwerschke (@pavelzw), C/SC, QuantCo
6. DY: Dan Yeaw (@danyeaw), Anaconda
7. SG: Shahaf Golan, JFrog

Announcements

• CEPs:
  • Final review rounds for repodata v3: https://github.com/conda/ceps/pull/146. Vote to start soon.
  • CEP 44 extras amendments: https://github.com/conda/ceps/pull/181, https://github.com/conda/ceps/pull/177.

New agenda items

• (DJC) Add CONDA_OVERRIDE_CUDA_ARCH to ci setup
  • https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-forge-ci-setup-feedstock/pull/420
• (BZ) Request to py-rattler maintainers to manage versions in upstream conda-smithy: https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-smithy/issues/2589 .
  • Conda-smithy typing impasse: https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-smithy/pull/2593.
  • We discussed the PR and came to a consensus.
  • We will continue with pyrefly but will add to the contributing.md that authors are allowed to ignore typing issues.
• (BZ) Unclear what the next steps are for win-arm64 migration. Cross-python seems blocked. https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-forge.github.io/issues/1940
  • Jaime will look into making win-arm64 runners use ci-setup for win-64.
• (LC) EuroPython 26 Packaging Summit Report
  • Notes: https://hackmd.io/@jezdez/europython2026-packaging-summit
  • instrumented CPython builds with Pixi
    • https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/152385
  • PEP 725 & 804 progress
    • 'action': "Blockers will hopefully be fixed by the Python Packaging Council (decision paralysis)"
  • packaging council
• (PZ) Maturin example recipe looking for comments https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-forge.github.io/pull/2883
  • also, is if: is_abi3 needed? https://github.com/conda-forge/python-abi3-feedstock/pull/10
  • note: is_abi3 refers to the python variant pulled as a dependency
• SG: Latest (18mo) Artifactory versions are not able to deserialize url from package records. Plans to roll this out? If need to support this, it's a major change.
  • JRG: url won't be part of v3 repodata; probably v4, which is not even drafted. (these are repodata versions)
  • BZ: conda, mamba, pixi do not have support for this yet.