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conda-forge core meeting 2022-03-09

last weeks meeting What time is the meeting in my time zone Meeting info:

Attendees

NameInitialsGitHub IDAffiliation
Matthew BeckerMRBbeckermrcf
Jaime R.GuerraJRGjaimergpQuansight/cf
Filipe FernandesFFocefpafCF
Cheng H. LeeCHLchenghleeAnaconda/cf
Dave ClementsDPCtnabtafAnaconda
Jannis LeidelJLjezdezAnaconda/cf
Wolf VollprechtWVQuantStack
Katherine KinnamanKKkathatherineAnaconda
Chris BurrCB
Isuru FernandoIFisurufCF/UIUC
Matti PicusMPmattipQuansight/PyPy
Marius van NiekerkMvNmariusvniekerkVoltron Data

20 people total

Agenda

Standing items

  • intros for new folks on the call

  • (FF) budget

    • current approvals?
    • Whenever updated numbers land, please screenshare and show the budget.
      • Link is in Keybase (numfocus_spreadsheets.txt)
  • open votes

  • 2022 Outreachy / GSoC

    • Community accepted
    • Project proposals due Tuesday/Wednesday March 22 (Americas) / March 23 (Europe)
      • In addition to project propsal also need contribution tasks
      • And Channels for potential interns to communicate with us.
    • Two projects
      • Grayskull and Friends, Jannis, and Marcelo (pyproject.toml support)
      • Doc, Matt and Katherine
    • questions:
      •  
    • todos:
      • Have people got time to support Grayskull work? (JL, DPC will follow up)

From previous meeting(s)

Your new() agenda items

  • (MRB) pybind11 ABI stuff

    • pybind11 is "over pinned" in terms of compiler ABI compat according to the upstream devs
    • we need to remove the compiler abi info from its internal version IDs
    • conda-forge uses pybind11 in two ways:
      1. people use pybind11 w/ the optional pybind11-abi package
        • pybind11-abi helps folks ensure they have a consistent pybind11 ABI in their env
        • it goes in host with pybind11 and has a run export
      2. people use pybind11 without the pybind11-abi package
    • So my question is for which of the two cases above do we want to remove the compiler abi info?
      • certainly case 1
      • I don't see why we wouldn't for case 2
      • Should we be concerned about shipping a patched version of pybind11 relative to upstream? Is that a reason to only do case 1.
    • todo (all MRB)
      • patch compiler activation scripts to append to flags instead of override
        • ^ this has other dangers in terms of not sanitizing the CXXFLAGS
      • patch pybind11-abi to remove compiler dep on abi
      • rebuild packages that depend on pybind11-abi
  • (JRG) conda-feedstock tests and package size

  • (JL/JRG) conda 4.12.0

  • (MP) Starting the PyPy 3.8 migration and merging https://github.com/conda-forge/pypy3.6-feedstock/pull/73

    • todo:
      • one migrator for pyp38 and pypy39, depends on python310, will need to do menuinst+ conda + downstreams by hand
      • IF will upload aarch64 and ppc64 builds of the pypy3.6-feedstock (which is misnamed, it builds 3.8 and 3.9) since the CI does not build them, together with the build logs
  • (JRG) conda has menuinst + pywin32 deps on windows, but that's only used in base

    • We should be able to remove the hard dep from conda
    • And then, add it explicitly in miniforge / miniconda (need to sync with Anaconda)
  • (MRB) Travis disabled in conda-smithy for common platforms

    • (IF) Add to conda-forge-ci-setup too

Active votes

CFEPs

  • cfep-12 Removing packages that violate the terms of the source package
    • Stalled since May 26, 2020
    • Active debate about moving to "broken" vs deleting from conda-forge channel
    • Active vote, ends on 2020-03-11
    • What were the results of the vote?
    • Did we hear back from NumFOCUS? they did the legal seminar which is recorded

TODOs

2022-01-12

  • review Qt PR after logs are uploaded
  • Add cupython and cuquantum to don't mirror list
  • re: std=c++14, Wait for Kai to comment and merge the PR
  • CJ and Jaime coordinate to Let Maxiconda know that we can't use their logo 2021-12-01
  • WV: Set up meet-and-greet call with homebrew team?
  • MRB: (repodata patches) make a cron job that runs show_diff.py and posts an issue + commit if it is non-empty

2021-11-03

  • Self-hosting CI TODOs:
    • Change URL from drone.conda-forge.org. Proposals:
      • woodpecker.conda-forge.org
      • ci.conda-forge.org
    • Set up monitoring
      • Quantstack is setting up grafana for the mirror

2021-10-18

2021-09-22

  • (WV): TensorFlow-GPU ready to go, just need to decide if GPU should get prio over CPU?!

    • GPU gets prio
  • (MRB) master to main move (https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-forge.github.io/issues/1162)

    • everything done except feedstocks, releases, conda-smithy, and our github actions
      • releases is broken, opened an issue with github
    • some options for feedstocks
      • make sure to change the upload on branch key
    • (MRB) make an announcement on how to update local clones (moved to the issue above)
    • (MRB) make sure to update upload_on_branch (moved to the issue above)

2020-11-18

  • (IF/MRB/MV) intel oneAPI
    • todo
      • (Nikolay) licensing for opencl_rt
      • (Nikolay) intelmpi ABI compat w/ mpich
      • (MRB/IF) figure out how exactly to package C/C++ compilers
      • (MRB/IF) think about fortran ABI
      • (MRB) make conda-forge compilers room (add people including keith)
  • (MB) asking core members to move to "emeritus" status
    • TODO: Eric to set up quarterly check-in for all core members to see if they're interested in remaining "active" or if they want to move to emeritus
      • Remove emeritus folks from having access to various credentials (api tokens, twitter password, etc.)? This would require a change to the governance doc.

2020-11-11

  • TODO: Think about bringing in JOSS to provide context around how we might best write papers

2020-11-03

  • TODO: Check on Forrest Watters permissions for core
  • (FF) Outreachy would cost 6500 USD.
    • Next steps: write abstract and vote on spending of funds.

2020-10-28 2020-10-21

  • (Marius?) Python 2.7 migration
    • ( ) [ ] make a hint
    • ( ) [ ] make an announcement
    • ( ) [ ] make the hint a lint

2020-10-07

  • Make sure to add the NVBug info to the cudatoolkit package that conda-forge makes (if we make one)

2020-09-09

2020-08-26 Docker hub

  • (JK) Check in on Azure build workers to see if they have the docker hub limitation.
  • (JK) work with dockerhub to see if we can get OSS status
    • Check in again at some point. We haven't heard back as of 2020-09-23

OVH

  • Shout-out on twitter at some point. "Thanks forOVHCloud for providing a VM", etc. (maybe after we ship qt on windows with it?)

  • Figure out how to communicate breaking changes to users. Likely should open up an issue immediately for futher discussion. Ping @kkraus, plus capture notes from further up in these meeting notes

  • John K. will update the cuda toolkit feedstock on the git repo to note the NVBug link to the internal NVIDIA issue tracker

  • Jonathan will update docs to note that some non-exhaustive list of packages (like cuda-toolkit, MKL, etc.)

  • Jonathan will review this PR

  • (Kale) schedule conda working group

  • cfep-10 next steps: CJ to call a vote for feedback

  • cfep-06 next steps: Ask staged recipes team to champion this CFEP and move it forward

  • jakirkham & CJ-wright to sync on adding CUDA to the migration bot

  • (Eric) Scheduling Anaconda <-> conda-forge sync on anaconda.org requirements gathering

    • Will try and get this scheduled in the next month.
  • (Anthony) Reach out to NumFocus to figure out legal ramifications of not including licenses in files.

  • (Eric) check internally for funding levels for hotels & flying folks from the community in?

  • (Eric) Figure out finances of conda-forge to support themselves?

  • (jjhelmus) Open up CFEP for which python's we're going to support

  • (jakirkham) write a blog post on CUDA stuff we discussed today

  • (jakirkham) update docs on how to add CUDA support to feedstocks

  • (jakirkham) will open an issue on conda-smithy to investigate Drone issues. (ping the aarch team)

  • (ED) Who we are page? Some combination of a FAQ and a who is everyone. FAQ things like:

    • who's the POC for CF <> Anaconda, CF <> NumFocus, CF <> Azure
    • who's the POC for the various subteams?
    • Informal information: roles, day jobs, bios, the whole nine yards, why you're here, etc.
    • Public or internal? I don't really care either way. Anyone feel strongly one way or the other?
    • opt-in to public bios
    • software carpentry has a large number of instructors and has https://carpentries.org/instructors
    • some concern about "yet another place to keep stuff up to date"
  • (ED) document strategies for reproducible environments using conda-forge

  • (UK) Static libraries stuff

    • Add linting hints to builds to find them
    • Recommend how to package them -> CFEP-18
    • We should write docs saying we don't provide support and this is a bad idea. -> CFEP-18