2019-03-06 conda-forge meeting

Pinned Items

• Zoom instructions: +How to connect to zoom

---

New items

• Elections
  • Staged
    • mjscosta
      • "I can review C++ and Python, and Python + extensions recipes."
    • xhochy
    • let’s put an election for those two.
• Blis vendor
  • https://github.com/orgs/conda-forge/teams/core/discussions/2
  • make the package a variant
• CFEP-9
  • https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-forge-enhancement-proposals/pull/13
  • Ongoing discussion, please visit the issue and comment!
• Plans for AnacondaCon
  • arrive before the conference if possible, 2nd, 3rd as a tentative days for our meeting.
• Migrations
  • gfortran
    • Need to build a migrator for new osx gfortran
    • https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-forge-pinning-feedstock/pull/174 maybe?
  • Power and Arm
    • Ongoing https://conda-forge.org/status/
    • Fixed some bugs, graph is fuller now
  • Openssl
    • In progress https://conda-forge.org/status/
    • https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-forge-pinning-feedstock/pull/191
    • https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-forge.github.io/issues/701
    • https://github.com/regro/cf-scripts/issues/409
    • https://www.openssl.org/blog/blog/2018/11/28/version/
    • Channel priority doesn’t stop default’s python being installed with the newest openssl
    • rebuild against openssl as soon as possible
      • Anaconda to take this on for their next sprint (starting Monday, Feb 11).
    • Pending new pinning
  • Readline
    • ABI change
    • Needs migrator
    • May want to wait
  • libnetcdf
    • @isuru suggested repo patch from X.X to X.X.X
      • @Filipe F does not like the repo patch idea. @Mike S partially joked that repo patches are addictive :)
    • Is the other option to migrate the pinnings?
  • @Christopher W : Add link to migration docs for conda-forge.github.io
• Meta Channel
  • https://metachannel.conda-forge.org/ ← This URL renders markdown as raw text btw
  • https://github.com/regro/conda-metachannel
  • probably not ready yet for use internally in
  • Want benchmarks
• ESIP update
  • choose a date and place for the sprint
  • decide how much we will use for CIs vs Sprint/Travel (1000USD/4000USD?)
    • @Filipe F will fill the MOU form and ask about AirBnB for AnacondaCon
  • Pay for airbnb for AnacondaCon
  • Travel costs for Scipy
  • Establish Effort reporting things (labels and such)
• Conda-Forge miniconda
  • Sophia did some benchmarks and showed that using a conda-pack’d archive reduced CI setup time down to about 2 seconds instead of the 40 seconds it takes to install miniconda and switch out all the packages for the conda-forge ones: https://gitter.im/conda-forge/conda-forge.github.io?at=5c79a37dd2d62067b72a849d
  • Mike’s point was who owns the support for a conda-forge miniconda distro? https://gitter.im/conda-forge/conda-forge.github.io?at=5c7992a9e1446a6ebe6871d2
• Azure status
  • Linux and OSX ready to go
  • Need to fix windows (vc9 and cmake)
  • Credentials issues (need pipelines account to access Azure, will move to GH auth soon)
  • Postpone to next meeting
• Nvidia relationship
  • Anaconda met with Rapids (NVIDIA) team
  • Reach out to NVIDIA to attend meetings
  • Add NVIDIA person to core?
  • Add to governance discussing donations and governance.
  • More followup with NVIDIA needed
  • Building GPU packages using conda-forge packages, upload to their own channel after building with cudatoolkit on their own Jenkins system.
  • Maybe form a working group?
• Perl ecosystem?
  • noarch
  • base stack
  • Many perl packages on bioconda (600+)
  • Perl ABI?
    • https://abi-laboratory.pro/?view=timeline&l=perl
  • move forward with plan to incorporate perl into CF
• Conda-forge on Open Source Directions