2021-10-06 conda-forge core meeting

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Agenda

Standing items

  • [x] intros for new folks on the call

  • [x] (FF) budget

    • current approvals?

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

      • Link is in Keybase (numfocus_spreadsheets.txt)

  • [x] open votes

    • none

From previous meeting(s)

  • [x] (IF) Python 3.10

    • conda issue - https://github.com/conda/conda/issues/10969

    • How to allow older conda users to fail?

      1. Let them find out

      2. Add a __conda virtual package and let python=3.10 package depend on __conda>=4.10.3

      3. symbolic link lib/python3.1 -> lib/python3.10

    • TODO New python build that does the symlink (option #3 above)

    • Py3.10-related fixes will be rolled into next conda minor release

  • [x] (CJ via MRB) more reproducible builds?

    • CJ: thinks its pretty close

    • motivated by this blog post: https://hpc.guix.info/blog/2021/09/whats-in-a-package/

    • embed azure build log into the package

    • embed which build system

    • git hash of feedstock?

    • turn off force push to feedstocks

    • need a way to force the build/host/test envs to be the same

    • (IF): see https://github.com/conda/conda-build/issues/2140

    • Possible TODOs

      • store source for builds somewhere

      • store logs for builds somewhere, possibly keyed on package name?

        • And parts of the info.json – sometimes we have the same filename for different builds

      • store conda-locks of the build/host/test environments

    • Notes

      • transparency vs repeatability vs reproducibility

      • Provenance != reproducibility

      • (Eric) transparency+repeatability > reproducibility

Your new() agenda items

  • [ ] (WV) motivated by conversations on gitter: use more mamba in conda-forge

    • add mamba install ... to feedstock readme

    • allow uploads from mambabuild

    • road to boa recipes?

    • TODO

      • PR to conda-smithy to add a couple of flags to allow users to enable mamba debug and mamba build&upload

  • [ ] (CB) NumFocus amendment

  • [ ] (IF) aarch64 builds

    • cloud.drone.io is slow

    • We have $3000 credits from Oracle for a year

      • Enough for 8 runners with 4 vCPUs and 24 GB for a year

    • options

      1. host our own drone server/runners

      2. host our own azure agents

      3. cross compile

        • test using qemu

        • pypy builds

      4. emulate

Pushed to next meeting

Active votes

CFEPs

  • 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

TODOs

2021-09-22

  • (MRB) update on travis stuff

    • [ ] TODO: Write blog post for transparency reasons. Need a champion for this one (Matt can at end of october)

  • (MRB) master to main move (https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-forge.github.io/issues/1162)

    • everything done except feedstocks, releases, conda-smithy, and our github actions

      • releases is broken, opened an issue with github

    • some options for feedstocks

      • make sure to change the upload on branch key

    • [x] (MRB) make an announcement on how to update local clones (moved to the issue above)

    • [x] (MRB) make sure to update upload_on_branch (moved to the issue above)

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