2019-05-15 conda-forge meeting

Pinned Items

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