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2021-05-05 conda-forge core meeting

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Attendees

Agenda

Standing items

• [ ] intros for new folks on the call

• [ ] (CJ) budget

  • current approvals?

  • Whenever updated numbers land, please screenshare and show the budget.

    • Link is in Keybase (numfocus_spreadsheets.txt)

• [ ] open votes

  • DEI team: https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-forge.github.io/pull/1187

From previous meeting(s)

Your new() agenda items

• [ ] (JK) CentOS 8

  • https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-forge.github.io/issues/1432

  • (MRB) Question: Is the only requirement that we match the glibc version across different distros?

    • yes glibc is the most important

    • need to think about X11 CDT version in the same way as glibc (old as possible)

    • kernel headers same concern

  • (CHL) Defaults: sticking with CentOS 7 as much as possible; Debian 9 or 10 (probably) if more recent glibc needed

  • (IF) we should try and use centos7

  • to dos

    • test nvcc etc in centos7

    • (KK) ask nvidia if we can redistribute

  • What is the next version of glibc?

    • probably 2.24

    • probably won’t update till past 2024

  • When do we drop centos6?

    • we need to add a run export to our compiler activation scripts for glibc >=2.17

    • we need to remove the fearure on the cos7 sysroot

    • Anaconda 2020.11 was last installer version that supported CentOS 6; Anaconda >= 2021.04 will require CentOS 7 (glibc >=2.17). Blog post: https://www.anaconda.com/blog/individual-edition-2020-11

    • may want to move to gcc 10/11 at the same time

  • (KK) CUDA 11.x PPC64LE uses GLIBC 2.17 & AARCH64 uses GLIBC 2.27

• [ ] (JK) C++17

  • https://github.com/conda-forge/clang-compiler-activation-feedstock/issues/17

  • Boost issue C++14/C++17

    • May need to add an activation script to Boost to select C++ version

    • Thinking of dropping C++ version from compiler

    • Dropping compiler version on clang should still use C++14 and will enable GNU extensions

    • Clang 13.0.0 may(need to recheck?) be moving to C++17 by default

    • (GCC behavior when dropping C++ verion flag?)

      • If we drop the -std= flag for GCC, this should only happen for GCC>=11 since we’d otherwise go from 17 to 14.

    • https://github.com/conda-forge/boost-cpp-feedstock/issues/43

    • Need to recheck if this is still an issue

Pushed to next meeting

Active votes

• https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-forge.github.io/pull/1187

Subteam updates

Bot

ARM

POWER

CUDA

• [ ] CentOS 8? ( https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-forge.github.io/issues/1432 )

• [ ] HPC SDK ( https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-forge.github.io/issues/1390 )

Docs

staged-recipes

website

security+systems

CI infrastructure

Compiler upgrade

CFEP updates

Open PRs

• cfep-04 X11 and CDT policy

  • INACTIVE - Merge in with some inactive-esque status?

  • Needs new champion. Thanks for your work on this pkgw! Has unaddressed comments from pkgw as from Jan 10, 2020 Solved: Let’s defer and keep the “mixed model” we have now.

• cfep-06 Staged-recipes review lifecycle

  • INACTIVE - Merge in with some inactive-esque status?

  • Lingering comment from @saraedum. @jakirkham, can you reply? Has unadressed comment from @saraedum from Jan 8, 2020

  • (MRB) The stalebot has solved the worst of the issues here. I think we could defer this one permanently. Solved: defer in favor of the stale bot for now.

• cfep-15 Feedstock statuses, unmaintained

  • INACTIVE - Merge in with some inactive-esque status?

  • Needs another review. Has unaddressed updates from pkgw as of Jan 11, 2020 Pending: re-pinged pkgw for a second review.

• cfep-12 Removing packages that violate the terms of the source package

  • Stalled since May 26, 2020

  • Active debate about moving to “broken” vs deleting from conda-forge channel

  • Active vote, ends on 2020-03-11

  • What were the results of the vote?

  • Did we hear back from NumFOCUS? they did the legal seminar which is recorded

• cfep-17 Handling pin backports and dependency rebuilds

  • Stalled debate about implementation details between Isuru, CJ and Matt

  • UPDATE 2020-07-22: We in principle have agreement to render the extra pinnings needed directly in the feedstock on a temporary basis (i.e., until the migration has ended).

• cfep-19 Pinning epochs

  • Stalled since July

• cfep-20 Package split

  • No updates for ~1 month

Discussion

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2020-11-18

• [ ] (IF/MRB/MV) intel oneAPI

  • todo

    • [ ] (Nikolay) licensing for opencl_rt

    • [ ] (Nikolay) intelmpi ABI compat w/ mpich

    • [ ] (MRB/IF) figure out how exactly to package C/C++ compilers

    • [ ] (MRB/IF) think about fortran ABI

    • [x] (MRB) make conda-forge compilers room (add people including keith)

• [ ] (MB) asking core members to move to “emeritus” status

  • [ ] TODO: Eric to set up quarterly check-in for all core members to see if they’re interested in remaining “active” or if they want to move to emeritus

    • Remove emeritus folks from having access to various credentials (api tokens, twitter password, etc.)? This would require a change to the governance doc.

2020-11-11

• TODO: Think about bringing in JOSS to provide context around how we might best write papers

2020-11-03

• TODO: Check on Forrest Watters permissions for core

• [x] (FF) Outreachy would cost 6500 USD.

  • Next steps: write abstract and vote on spending of funds.

2020-10-28 2020-10-21

• [ ] (Marius?) Python 2.7 migration

  • ( ) [ ] make a hint

  • ( ) [ ] make an announcement

  • ( ) [ ] make the hint a lint

2020-10-07

• [ ] Make sure to add the NVBug info to the cudatoolkit package that conda-forge makes (if we make one)

2020-09-09

• [ ] (ED) Update governance docs with similar voting model as what got put into conda-tools (+3 with no -1 is a pass)

• [ ] (SC) Write jinja template to turn institutional partners yaml into a website https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-forge.github.io/blob/master/src/inst_partners.yaml

• [ ] (SC) Document what needs to be done to create an OVH account and get access

2020-08-26 Docker hub

• [ ] (JK) Check in on Azure build workers to see if they have the docker hub limitation.

• [ ] (JK) work with dockerhub to see if we can get OSS status

  • [ ] Check in again at some point. We haven’t heard back as of 2020-09-23

OVH

• [ ] Shout-out on twitter at some point. “Thanks forOVHCloud for providing a VM”, etc. (maybe after we ship qt on windows with it?)

• [ ] Figure out how to communicate breaking changes to users. Likely should open up an issue immediately for futher discussion. Ping @kkraus, plus capture notes from further up in these meeting notes

• [ ] John K. will update the cuda toolkit feedstock on the git repo to note the NVBug link to the internal NVIDIA issue tracker

• [ ] Jonathan will update docs to note that some non-exhaustive list of packages (like cuda-toolkit, MKL, etc.)

• [ ] Jonathan will review this PR

• [ ] (Kale) schedule conda working group

• [ ] cfep-10 next steps: CJ to call a vote for feedback

• [ ] cfep-06 next steps: Ask staged recipes team to champion this CFEP and move it forward

• [ ] jakirkham & CJ-wright to sync on adding CUDA to the migration bot

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

  • Will try and get this scheduled in the next month.

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

• [ ] (Eric) check internally for funding levels for hotels & flying folks from the community in?

• [ ] (Eric) Figure out finances of conda-forge to support themselves?

• [ ] (jjhelmus) Open up CFEP for which python’s we’re going to support

• [ ] (jakirkham) write a blog post on CUDA stuff we discussed today

• [ ] (jakirkham) update docs on how to add CUDA support to feedstocks

• [ ] (jakirkham) will open an issue on conda-smithy to investigate Drone issues. (ping the aarch team)

  • https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-forge.github.io/issues/954

• [ ] (ED) Who we are page? Some combination of a FAQ and a who is everyone. FAQ things like:

  • who’s the POC for CF <> Anaconda, CF <> NumFocus, CF <> Azure

  • who’s the POC for the various subteams?

  • Informal information: roles, day jobs, bios, the whole nine yards, why you’re here, etc.

  • Public or internal? I don’t really care either way. Anyone feel strongly one way or the other?

  • opt-in to public bios

  • software carpentry has a large number of instructors and has https://carpentries.org/instructors

  • some concern about “yet another place to keep stuff up to date”

• [ ] (ED) document strategies for reproducible environments using conda-forge

• [ ] (UK) Static libraries stuff

  • [ ] Add linting hints to builds to find them

  • [x] Recommend how to package them -> CFEP-18

  • [x] We should write docs saying we don’t provide support and this is a bad idea. -> CFEP-18