2022-08-03 Conda Community Meeting

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Attendees

Name	Initials	Affiliation	GH Username
Jannis Leidel	JL	Anaconda/cf	jezdez
Ken Odegard	KO	Anaconda	kenodegard
Travis Hathaway	TH	Anaconda	travishathaway
Dave Clements	DPC	Anaconda	tnabtaf
Filipe Fernandes	FF	conda-forge	ocefpaf
Sebastien Awwad	SA	Anaconda	awwad
Cheng H. Lee	CHL	Anaconda/cf	chenghlee
Eric Dill	EDD	voltrondata/cf	ericdill
Katherine Kinnaman	KK	Anaconda	kathatherine
Cheuk Ho	CH	Anaconda	Cheukting
John Kirkham	JK	NVIDIA/cf	jakirkham

18 people total

Introductions

• Cheuk Ho
• Srivas Venkatash

Announcements

• (JL) Proposing/call for votes on Plugins Mechanism Implementation CEP
• (JL; KO) Proposing/call for votes on Conda Release Schedule CEP
• (KO) conda 4.14.0 and conda-build 3.22.0 releases are being tagged/published today
  • https://github.com/conda/conda/issues/11653
  • https://github.com/conda/conda-build/issues/4542

New Agenda Items

• (TH) Should we form a project group for Plugins? Assuming it passes the vote :-)
  • (TH) Project groups: how do those work? Do we have other initiatives that deserve a separate project group?
    • (JL) Link for regular subteams (needs 50% of votes) https://github.com/conda-incubator/governance#sub-team-formation
    • (JL) Alternative could be an incubating project team, which just needs one steering council member to create it: https://github.com/conda-incubator/governance#incubation (with added barrier to later move to conda org)
• (DPC) Call for Outreachy Intern project proposals
  • If we can get funding from Anaconda, do we have any projects and mentors for an Outreachy intern?
  • Community applications are due in a little over a month. Project submissions will be due sometime after that.
• (DPC) Call to consolidate conda community channels into fewer and better advertised locations
  • Proposal
    • Chat (Gitter, Element/Matrix, Slack,...)
    • Longer form / Forum (Discourse,...)
    • Close down any channels we don't embrace
    • Redirect those posting on other channels (Twitter, Facebook) to our select channels
  • (JRG) Ideas from other communities:
    • Napari uses Zulip for almost everything, but it's also part of large "scientific imaging" Discourse instance - there's a bot syncing some stuff between sources.
    • Jupyter has... a bunch of platforms, including Discourse, Gitter and Mailing lists.
    • Numpy has a simpler approach
    • Historical resources for conda support: https://docs.conda.io/en/latest/help-support.html
  • Next steps: CEP, probably. DPC will reach out to conda-forge, bioconda to get their input.
• (JRG) Github archeology request for constructor: why was conda-standalone introduced and what is the expected behaviour? Should it really run a full solve at install time? That prevents a number of constructor v2 features from working (exclude, forced reinstalls).
  • https://github.com/conda/constructor/issues/319
  • (MS) Probably an oversight that we're using conda-standalone. Definitely shouldn't be a reason to run a full solve when installing.

What is this meeting for?

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.