conda-forge core meeting 2022-11-30

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Attendees

Name

Initials

GitHub ID

Affiliation

Dave Clements

DPC

tnabtaf

Anaconda

Katherine Kinnaman

KK

kathatherine

Anaconda

Eric Dill

EDD

ericdill

Voltron Data, cf

Jason McAllister

JM

solid-snake-jay

Anaconda

Jannis Leidel

JL

jezdez

Anaconda, cf

Cheng H. Lee

CHL

chenghlee

Anaconda, cf

Matthew R Becker

MRB

beckermr

cf

Marcel Bargull

MB

mbargull

Bioconda/cf

Mike McCarty

MM

mmccarty

NVIDIA

John Kirkham

JK

jakirkham

NVIDIA/cf

14 people total

Standing items

  • [x] intros for new folks on the call

    • alex dibbley from nvidia

  • [x] open votes

From previous meeting(s)

  • [x] results of staged-recipes reviewer vote

    • We had 33 people invited to vote, 25 core, 8 emeritus. only 14 voted and they all seem like active core. [x] ERIC TODO: ping Filipe add them to staged recipes

  • [x] (DPC) Should we shut down conda-forge@googlegroups.com at the same time we shut the conda google group mailing list (which is the end of the year)?

    • Lean towards getting rid of it. Does not appear to be monitored.

    • Get rid of it.

    • DPC will post a notice about this to the google group. End date is 12/31.

Active votes

Your new() agenda items

  • [x] (JK) CUDA licensing & packaging update

    • (JK) CUDA licensing done

    • (JK) CUDA 11.8 packaging

    • (AD) Adding new CUDA packages

      • Build order: https://github.com/conda-forge/staged-recipes/issues/21382

      • First recipe: https://github.com/conda-forge/staged-recipes/pull/21350 (reviews welcome!)

    • (MRB) Have some questions

      • (MRB) Should we move to webpage repo?

      • (JK) Package addition so ok to close after added. No strong preferences

      • (MVK) Let’s pin to staged-recipes since this will go on for a while. Done

      • (MVK) Licensing SPDX

        • (JK) Can do LicenseRef-*

        • (JK) Currently do this

        • (JK) Maybe we can keep doing this?

        • (MVK, MRB) +1

        • (AD) Can add

  • [x] (DPC) Submitting Conda Ecosystem Update talk to PyCascades in a few hours.

  • [x] (DPC) PyCon US 2023 Tutorial, Talk, Charla, and Poster submissions are due on December 9.

    • Would a “Make your software available via conda-forge” tutorial be a good fit

      • Yes.

    • (JL) Should we present an update of the EuroSciPy talk?

      • Leaning towards that… maybe

  • [ ] (JK) .conda follow up

    • [x] (JK) Update conda-package-handling to 2.0.1 ( https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-package-handling-feedstock/pull/68 )

    • [x] (JK) Fixes to re-render ( https://github.com/conda-forge/webservices-dispatch-action/issues/18 )

    • [x] (JL) clarification about compression, refs https://github.com/conda/conda-build/pull/4650

      • (MRB) Needs a new release of conda-build

      • (MB) Not urgent

      • (MRB) Will add 19 for Zstd compression

    • [x] (JL) anaconda.org partial downtime this week: https://github.com/conda/infra/discussions/656

  • [x] (JK) openssl 1/3 & qt 5/6

    • https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-forge-pinning-feedstock/issues/3773

    • https://github.com/conda-forge/qt-main-feedstock/pull/72

    • (MB) How do we build (manual builds)?

    • (JK) Think mostly automated. Though have had one user build locally and share logs/packages for upload

  • [ ] (JL) Upcoming conda 22.11.0, conda-libmamba-solver releases

    • [ ] https://github.com/conda/conda/releases/tag/22.11.0

      • [ ] NEW! Download and extract packages in parallel

      • [ ] NEW! plugins (launching with solver, subcommands and virtual packages plugin hooks)

        • [ ] E.g. cuda virtual package: https://github.com/conda/conda/blob/main/conda/plugins/virtual_packages/cuda.py

      • [ ] Switched to ruamel.yaml (look ma, no underscore!)

    • [ ] https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-feedstock/pull/181

Pushed to next meeting

  • [ ] (JRG) Support for abi3 Python packages with abi3audit checks?

    • https://blog.trailofbits.com/2022/11/15/python-wheels-abi-abi3audit/

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