2019-10-02 conda-forge core meeting

Attendees

  • Eric

  • John K.

  • Sophia C.

  • Jonathan H.

  • Filipe

  • Marius

  • Lori

  • Scopatz

  • CJ

  • Mike S.

  • Ralf G.

Agenda

Pre-arranged stuff to talk about. Email core team on Monday of the week of the dev meeting to ask for things to talk about.

  • (CJ) Pytorch/torchvision discussion (tweet)

    • How do we get greater maitainer participation?

    • External users find it difficult to get involved

    • Standards centos6/7

    • Community ownership model improvements

    • Have a follow-on conversation with PyTorch maintainers, conda-forge and Anaconda?

  • (Filipe) NumFOCUS grants and more transperancy/communication with expenses

    • Write up plan that we discussed on the call and make it public

    • Create finances subteam to approve disbursement of funds

    • Numfocus workflow is:

      • someone submits things through rocket

      • They update spreadsheet

      • Someone from conda-forge core needs to approve the new spend.

      • Set up notifications for your user so that approvers are aware of when changes are made.

  • (Filipe) CZI proposal (deadline December 2019)

    • link to bioconda issue

    • follow up with Bjorn

    • https://gitter.im/bioconda/core-x-conda-forge

  • (CJ) CFEP-10 for assigning standings to feedstocks

    • Comment in PR that only 3 Version PRs will be issued by bot

    • What are we supposed to do with conda packages for feedstocks that are no longer being actively maintained

      • Epoch out packages archived feedstocks?

        • Package based messaging?

      • one user perspective: would prefer correct and/or up-to-date versus “works for the thing i did one year ago”

  • (CJ) Testing story, encourage people to add full test suites?

    • Mixed responce, table for later

  • (John) Update on GPU packaging

    • Made docker images, based on NVIDIA CUDA images

    • Built UCX

  • (CJ) NumFOCUS sprint form

Subteam updates

Bot

ARM

Docs

staged-recipes

website

CI infrastructure

  • (CJ) Problems with Appveyor downgrade to free?

  • (Marius, Isuru) Azure migration update?

  • Do we want to roll out https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-smithy/issues/1131 to all feedstocks?

Compiler upgrade

  • (Isuru) Update to clang 8.0.1 and gfortran 7.3.0 on OSX

    • No rebuild necessary. (Rebuild for gfortran 7.3.0 is already done. We build with 7.3.0 and 4.8.5)

    • This should be pain free except for some packages that do -Wall -Werror.

    • We get better compilers.

    • We don’t have to rely on defaults as we build these in conda-forge CI.

    • We get a linker that supports .tbds . (new linker might work with older compiler, but not sure about packages compiled with -flto)

CFEP updates

How do we start getting traction on these?

cfep-03

cfep-04

cfep-05

cfep-06

cfep-08

cfep-10

Your agenda items

Discussion

  • Funding round?

jeremy howard’s criticisms and discussion

  • It’s still difficult to get involved

  • Ralf, as a numpy / scipy maintainer, still struggles to understand how to get involved.

    • External project maintainers plus maintainers of recipe – so-and-so already owns it how can i start contributing to the package.

  • the average user doesn’t want to think about glibc. it’s an implementation detail that the average packager doesn’t want to think about. Most people are happy to follow these guidelines

Check in on previous action items

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Last meeting

  • [ ] (Eric) Email out to see if we can get more engagement on regular dev meetings.

  • [ ] (Sophia) Set up meeting to talk about Condafile stuff.

  • [ ] (CJ) write blog post on bot work and compiler migration

  • [ ] (Filipe) Ping Bjorn to try and get Debian community more involved with conda-forge

  • [ ] (Eric) Scheduling Anaconda <-> conda-forge sync on anaconda.org requirements gathering

  • [ ] (Anthony) Reach out to NumFocus to figure out legal ramifications of not including licenses in files.

2 meetings ago

  • [ ] (Filipe) Progress on setting up a self-hosted blog

    • Medium seems to be generally downvoted

    • Host your own blog seems to be generally positive

    • Can we mimic what Dask does for their dev blog? https://github.com/dask/dask-blog

  • [ ] (Needs Owner) Searching on our website is a little difficult

  • [ ] (Filipe, Anthony) Improve docs on releasing conda-smithy. Currently says “use rever”. Would be good to fill out more info there for those of us that are unfamiliar with rever.

3 meetings ago

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