2019-05-15 conda-forge meeting¶
Pinned Items
Zoom instructions: +How to connect to zoom
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