conda-forge core meeting 2022-01-12¶
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Attendees¶
Matti Picus (MP)
Isuru Fernando
CJ Wright
Jaime Rodriguez
Chris Burr
Daniel Ching
Dave Clements
Edgar Margffoy
Eric Dill
Lori Burns
John Kirkham
Matthew Becker
Cheng Lee
Ken Odegard
Wolf Vollprecht
Jannis Leidel
Agenda¶
Standing items¶
[x] intros for new folks on the call
Daniel Ching - Argonne, wanting to be part of staged-recipes team
Dave Clements -
just started at Anaconda (3.5 weeks ago)
OSS community manager
came from galaxy (has been involved in bioconda) where he was doing similar work
part of his job is to make sure the OSS parts of the conda ecosystem dont get lost in the shuffle within Anaconda
Edgar Margffoy - works at Quansight
working on qt compilation
Ken Odegard
joined Anaconda team last fall
on conda team (works with triaging, tracking bugs, making progress)
[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
[x] 2022 Outreachy / GSoC
Ask each week: Any interested parties in owning this?
Discussion 2021-11-03
If we want to do outreachy again we need a champion - Filipe can’t do it next year. Same with GSoC.
GSoC is free to us
Outreachy costs us $$ ($6500). $6k for student, $500 for admin
Some interest from Jannis - he and Filipe will chat about possibly handing off
Trying to figure out what policy for interns at Anaconda - some overlap maybe. Jannis wants to pick Filipe’s brain. Dave C. has also done this in the past at galaxy
From previous meeting(s)¶
Your new() agenda items¶
[x] (JRG/EM) Report
qt
status and potential blocks.split the recipe into a bunch of components. have
qt-main
that has all the modulesbuilds time out after 6 hours - how to review and move forward with this?
MRB - post build logs so people can page through it and approve the merge.
How to compile aarch64 for all of this - qt work is being financed on quansight side by TDK
TDK would be willing to fund a machine to compile aarch64
MRB - do we have the server from oracle?
IF - Edgar, send Isuru your public ssh key and he’ll add you to access that aarch64 box
[x] JRG - meeting tomorrow on GPU stuff internally at Quansight. Will update team after
[x] (MRB) What is going on w/ Julia?
IF - just trying to figure out how to do Julia packages - we were lagging behind for the past couple of years. they have binary depenedency packages - we’d like julia to use the ones in our conda environments instead of theirs. some binary dependencies depend on julia’s dependencies.
[x] (UK) Removing
std=c++14
from clang activationhttps://github.com/conda-forge/clang-compiler-activation-feedstock/pull/75
https://github.com/conda-forge/clang-compiler-activation-feedstock/issues/17#issuecomment-831987409
(IF) Wait for Kai to comment and merge the PR
[x] (IF) skip: True recipes in staged-recipes
eg: https://github.com/conda-forge/staged-recipes/pull/17276
TODO: MRB don’t allow mirroring for cuquantum, cuquantum-python, cuda-python. any more?
[x] Let Maxiconda know that we can’t use their logo
https://www.maxiconda.org/
CJ and Jaime to coordinate since TDK is a quansight client
(IF) m1 mac
Jaime - will check internally to see if there are m1 macs available
CBurr - will check with macstadium and see if they can add an m1 mac or swap the intel mac for m1 mac
(MP) PyPy3.8
Hold off for another 2-3 weeks until 7.3.8
(IF) New staged-recipes reviewers
Daniel Ching (carterbox)
(JK) Benjamin Bertrand (beenje) [happy to move this if needed]
Kolen Cheung (ickc)
(MRB) Bastian Zimmermann (@BastianZim)
(JL) libmamba solver work update
release (opt-in) happening end of Jan/mid of Feb depending on releaes prep
additional feedback logging and issue management being set up
PR: https://github.com/conda/conda/pull/10881
Pushed to next meeting¶
*** ARE ANY OF THE BELOW STILL RELEVANT? ***
Skip next two CF meetings. Next meeting will be Jan 12, 2022
(CB) Issues from supporting CentOS 6: https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-forge.github.io/issues/1436
Non trivial solver errors when dependencies drop support for CentOS 6
Growing number of packages use minor features from the newer glibc
Proposed solution:
Move to using CentOS 7 based docker container by default
Stop building with CentOS 6 on staged-recipes
static libs should have a run constraint on the new sysroot
Document common errors (e.g. O_PATH)
Add an admin command to migrate to CentOS 7?
make an announcement
(MRB) keep ruby features
we’ve been removing them in the repodata patches ever since we started patching
it appears to be a purposeful addition to the patching, but a wrong one?
PR: https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-forge-repodata-patches-feedstock/pull/193
related CEP draft: https://github.com/conda/ceps/pull/11
JRG: Standardize Windows builds with Docker images (e.g. https://hub.docker.com/_/microsoft-windows-nanoserver)
Building conda-standalone on GitHub Actions vs Azure Pipelines results in different behaviour (
_ssl
error on GHA’s version)https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-forge.github.io/issues/928
Licensing? https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/windowscontainers/images-eula
JRG: Quansight has now access to the GPU server. Next steps?
JL/JRG: libmamba in conda progress report
main feature PR: https://github.com/conda/conda/pull/10881
JL: conda-build 3.21.6/conda 4.11 kerfuffle
JL: conda-archive GitHub org, https://github.com/conda-archive
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¶
2021-12-01
WV: Set up meet-and-greet call with homebrew team?
MRB: (repodata patches) make a cron job that runs show_diff.py and posts an issue + commit if it is non-empty
2021-11-03
Self-hosting CI TODOs:
Change URL from drone.conda-forge.org. Proposals:
woodpecker.conda-forge.org
ci.conda-forge.org
Set up monitoring
Quantstack is setting up grafana for the mirror
2021-10-18
2021-09-22
[x] (WV): TensorFlow-GPU ready to go, just need to decide if GPU should get prio over CPU?!
GPU gets prio
(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