2019-04-17 conda-forge meeting

Pinned Items

New items

  • Conda-forge on Open Source Directions

  • Should we send something for the SciPy Tools plenary? https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdyemkK_NV1k6kp9ZakHm566nYUxrfCv7lO_MlNXKEoUv2I8w/viewform

    • Not done, CJ following up on what we need to do

  • SciPy plans and how to spend ESIP/NumFOCUS sprint grant money.

  • Elections/Governance (let’s put an election for those two.)

    • Elections called - closing in a day.

      • Staged

        • Progress?

        • mjscosta

          • “I can review C++ and Python, and Python + extensions recipes.”

        • xhochy

        • etadeu

      • Core

        • pkgw Upcoming helper for staged-recipes

      • jan jansen

    • Split help teams from staged-recipes permissions?

      • Go forward with splitting help teams from staged

        • GO make a github issue

    • Staged team in Governance doc

      • https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-forge.github.io/pull/738

    • Add formal budget team to Governance doc

  • Should we “dogfood” strict, which may be default in the next conda, in our CIs? The only known issue is numpy /scipy on Windows because of BLAS requirements openblas (numpy)vs mkl (scipy). We need to either make mkl a first class citizen on Windows or have a scipy build with openblas.

    • 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

      • 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

  • Migrations

    • Blas

      • Underway

    • Libprotobuf

      • Underway

    • 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/

      • More leafs to target?

    • Openssl

      • Underway

    • Readline

      • ABI change

      • Needs migrator

      • May want to wait

    • @Christopher W : Add link to migration docs for conda-forge.github.io

  • Conda-Forge miniconda (Should we mark this as resolved and proceed with conda-pack?)

    • 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

    • Should make an installer for AARCH64

  • 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?

    • move forward with plan to incorporate perl into CF

      • Do we have an issue or something for this?