# 2019-05-15 conda-forge meeting
**Pinned Items**

- Zoom instructions: [+How to connect to zoom](https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/How-to-connect-to-zoom-odl94oveHyiRv6UqTtZE5) 
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**New items**

- Discuss the use of Drone (native ARM) in conda-forge.
    - https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-smithy/pull/1069
- Make conda-forge enhancements proposal a “first class citizen”  and it a voting process for approving them in our governance docs. (scopatz volunteered to add it to the docs.)
- SciPy plans and how to spend ESIP/NumFOCUS sprint grant money.
    - Buy dedicated machines.
- Elections/Governance
        Upcoming helper for staged-recipes
        - jan jansen (TODO)
    - Staged-recipes team in Governance doc (Review and merge)
        - https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-forge.github.io/pull/738
    - Add formal budget team to Governance doc.
    - Make the spreadsheets available to all (NumFOCUS team drive folder).
- Should we “dogfood”  `strict`, which may be default in the next conda, in our CIs?
    - https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-forge-ci-setup-feedstock/pull/50
    - https://github.com/conda-forge/staged-recipes/pull/8009
    - Perform switch after blas migration is more finished (ocefpaf: check the blas migration status.)
        - Need to either copy over new compiler activation scripts package to cf
        - Or delete ours entirely
        - TODO: Verify that smithy and pinnings are fine for the compilers
- Azure status
    - Need to fix windows (vc9/14 and cmake)
    - Credentials issues (need pipelines account to access Azure, will move to GH auth soon)
    - How to handle bespoke build agents (for builds taking longer than 6 hours (qt, compilers, etc.)
    - How to restart an Azure job?
- NVIDIA
    - Louder communication path for large ecosystem shifts (compiler migrations)
        - Banner on AnacondaCloud, status updates on channel
        - Print something while using `conda install`
        - More frequent updates
    - AnacondaCloud can fall over (mirroring conda)
    - Try to track down hard linked drivers in GPU packages.
    - Progress on colo talks for bins of gpus at Anaconda (Waiting on Mike W. on this.)
- Migrations
    - Blas
        - Underway
    - Libprotobuf
        - Underway
    - gfortran (wait for cfep-09)
        - 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/
        - More leafs to target?
    - Openssl
        - Underway
    - Readline (wait for cfep-09)
        - ABI change
        - Needs migrator
    - @Christopher W : Add link to migration (conda-forge status?) docs for conda-forge.github.io (ocefpaf: I’ll add the status link to the docs)
- Nvidia relationship
    - Building GPU packages using conda-forge packages, upload to their own channel after building with cudatoolkit on their own Jenkins system.
    - GPU compiler shim package: https://github.com/conda-forge/staged-recipes/pull/8229
    - Maybe form a working group?
- Perl ecosystem? (ocefpaf:Ask bBjorn G.)
    - move forward with plan to incorporate perl into CF
        - Do we have an issue or something for this?
- R 3.6 migration? (ocefpaf: Ask bBjorn G.)
    - https://github.com/conda-forge/r-base-feedstock/pull/82