conda-forge core meeting 2025-07-23

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Attendees

Name	Initials	GitHub ID	Affiliation
Uwe Korn	UK	xhochy	QuantCo, c-f
Daniel Ching	DJC	carterbox	NVIDIA/cf
Jaime Rodríguez-Guerra	JRG	jaimergp	Quansight/cf
John Kirkham	JK	jakirkham	NVIDIA/cf
Ryan Keith	RSK	ryanskeith	Anaconda
Jannis Leidel	JL	jezdez	Anaconda/cf

6 people total

Standing items

• UK: Python 3.13/3.14 Migration
  • 3.14rc now tagged, builds looking good.
  • Migration can start building Python 3.14 dependents, as soon as the RC is merged. Expected complexity: routine migration (low complexity).

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• Introductions round:

  • RSK: First time joining the conda-forge calls. Part of Anaconda for 3 years, now part of the conda open-source team. Will be around more now!

• JK: Went to scipy. A lot of talks about LLMs. Some talks on CUDA libraries. Wolf and Ruben were also there. Joint Pixi tutorial with Matthew and Ruben, how to use it and apply it on ML workflows. 50 people supposed to attend, but had more in the end, so had to get some cloud credit in real time. Feedback was good.

• JL: Went to EuroPython. Intense and amazing. Huge conference, comparable to PyCON US. Ran packaging summit with around 20 people, had to explain what conda is a number of times. A number of people knew Pixi! Met with some Prefix guys (Julian, Ruben), timely thanks to the Anaconda <> Prefix collaboration announcement. Interesting talks about community sustainability and how to find funding for open source. Recommended talk: Brett's keynote about lockfiles and other Python packaging efforts.

• WV: Demo conditional dependencies prototype! With <match spec>; if ... syntax. Pip-like extras were also demo'ed. CEP @ https://github.com/conda/ceps/pull/111.

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