conda-forge core meeting 2023-07-12

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Attendees

Name	Initials	GitHub ID	Affiliation
Dave Clements	DPC	tnabtaf	Anaconda
Jaime Rodríguez-Guerra	JRG	jaimergp	Quansight/cf
Eric Dill	EDD	ericdill	Anaconda/cf
Wolf Vollprecht	WV	wolfv	prefix.dev
Bianca Henderson	BH	beeankha	Anaconda
Katherine Kinnaman	KK	kathatherine	Anaconda
John Kirkham	JK	jakirkham	NVIDIA/cf
Matthew Becker	MRB	beckermr	cf

11 people total

Standing items

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From previous meeting(s)

• (JK) Windows + ARM
  • (IF) Couple packages built & uploaded: Zstd + zlib
    • https://github.com/conda-forge/zstd-feedstock/pull/72
    • https://github.com/conda-forge/zlib-feedstock/pull/72
  • (IF) Need conda-build PR (to avoid workarounds)
    • PR: https://github.com/conda/conda-build/pull/4867
  • (IF) Need to figure out how we test packages
  • (IF) Cross-python still needs to work
  • (IF) CMake and simple packages compile
  • (IF) Tests in bld.bat need to be skipped when cross-compiling
    • https://github.com/conda-forge/zlib-feedstock/pull/72/files#diff-54cf74e113dd3f6d11e092fdb1d888ec82c69bdafbb15cfb6570c83ecad28f33R61-R65
  • (JK) Question about machines
    • (IF) Could use Microsoft hosted runners (need admin permissions on GH account)
      • (MRB) Can we be added to their account?
        • (IF) Can ask. Mainly they need a token
        • (MRB) Token could work
      • (JRG) Also happy to help setup
      • (MRB) Do we need to gatekeep
        • (IF) Not needed
• (JK) Drop CentOS 6 & use CentOS 7
  • https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-forge.github.io/issues/1436
  • Most recent discussion around Zstd
    • https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-forge.github.io/issues/1436#issuecomment-1608454474
  • Extra flags (needs testing)
    • https://github.com/conda-forge/linux-sysroot-feedstock/pull/50
  • CentOS 7 EOL is May 31 2024: https://wiki.centos.org/About/Product
  • MRB: Announce that our EOL will correspond to EOL for CentOS 6.

Active votes

• Code of Conduct sub-team formation
  • Vote deferred: https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-forge.github.io/pull/1745#issuecomment-1632970553

Your __new__() agenda items

• (JK) Sunsetting old CUDAs (follow up)
  • https://github.com/conda-forge/docker-images/pull/237
  • https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-forge-pinning-feedstock/pull/1708
  • CUDA hardware support
    • https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-gpus
  • (JRG) Mentioned to a couple HPC groups that CUDA minimum may be bumped & they moved to 11.2
  • (MRB) Believe DOE would be ok with CUDA 11.2+
  • Summary: we don't care about 11.0 and 11.1 support.
  • (IF) but should do some final checking with others.
• (BH) Upcoming conda + conda-build releases
  • Channel priorities (when will we move to strict?)
    • https://docs.conda.io/projects/conda/en/stable/user-guide/tasks/manage-channels.html#strict
  • (MBa) If we change this we neeed an announcement.
  • (MRB) can follow deprecation cycle.

Pushed to next meeting

• (HV) [non-urgent] Feedback on possible branch deletion policy

CFEPs

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