2019-03-06 conda-forge meeting

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  • 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