2026-08-05 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. DY: Dan Yeaw (@danyeaw), Anaconda
3. DJC: Daniel Ching (@carterbox), NVIDIA, CF/SR
4. CHL: Cheng H. Lee (@chenghlee), Anaconda, C/SC, CF/C
5. JK: John Kirkham (@jakirkham), NVIDIA/CF/CFC
6. LW: Lilly Winfree (@lwinfree), Anaconda
7. MRB: Matthew R. Becker, CF
8. IF: Isuru Fernando (@isuruf), OpenTeams, CF/C
9. WV: Wolf Volprecht (@wolfv), Prefix.dev, CF/C, C/SC
10. SM: Schuyler Martin (@schuylermartin45), Anaconda
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Introductions

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Announcements

• CHL: Starting RFC period for conda PURL CEP
• JRG: Repodata v3 CEP vote to start soon, please check your notifications
• JRG: conda-smithy 2026.8.5 just released. Big release with lots of changes, including GHA as default Windows provider. Do ping if anything smells weird!
• JRG: New #review-requests channel in conda-forge's Zulip.

New agenda items

• IF: Policy on licenses for minified javascript code.
  • License only included in the minified JS file itself, not in the info/ directory. Should we enforce putting them there too?
  • DJC: Enumerate everything in the SPDX expression?
  • IF: We don't do that with cargo-bundle-licenses, it becomes complex really quickly.
  • MRB: Reminder that our licensing metadata is only a best effort. It can go stale, incomplete.
  • JRG: Maybe drop a hint file in the licenses/ directory? "More license information may be available in minified JS code. Double check." or something?
• DJC: cuda-arch meta-package design update
  • Defaults to lowest arch if __cuda_arch not installed by using variants with and without that virtual package.
  • https://github.com/conda-forge/cuda-arch-feedstock/pull/1
  • https://github.com/conda-forge/admin-requests/pull/2241
  • IF: Have we added the plugin as a requirement to conda on conda-forge?
    • JRG: Not yet, but can happen soon.
  • DJC: Based on feedback, I will revise the design to require __cuda_arch in all cases in order to install cuda-arch metapackages
• LW: Discussion wanted for planned improvements to conda-forge clone process on anaconda.org
  • ask: who wants to do some asynch review of the technical plan?
    • Jaime; should reach out to bioconda (Lilly to follow up); Lilly can also post on Zulip
  • Anaconda developers working on this: Burak & Alex (Oleksandr)
• WV: move to v1 in staged recipes? https://github.com/conda-forge/staged-recipes/pull/34414
  • 20%+ https://tdejager.github.io/are-we-recipe-v1-yet/
  • JRG: We can add a hint to the staged-recipes linter that goes away when a certain label is added?
  • WV: CFEP needed?
    • Consensus: not needed for a linter change
  • https://github.com/conda-forge/staged-recipes/pull/34414/

Deferred to next meeting

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