conda-forge core meeting 2023-07-12

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Attendees

Name

Initials

GitHub ID

Affiliation

Dave Clements

DPC

tnabtaf

Anaconda

Jaime Rodríguez-Guerra

JRG

jaimergp

Quansight/cf

Eric Dill

EDD

ericdill

Anaconda/cf

Wolf Vollprecht

WV

wolfv

prefix.dev

Bianca Henderson

BH

beeankha

Anaconda

Katherine Kinnaman

KK

kathatherine

Anaconda

John Kirkham

JK

jakirkham

NVIDIA/cf

Matthew Becker

MRB

beckermr

cf

11 people total

Standing items

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From previous meeting(s)

  • [x] (JK) Windows + ARM

    • (IF) Couple packages built & uploaded: Zstd + zlib

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

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

    • (IF) Need conda-build PR (to avoid workarounds)

      • PR: https://github.com/conda/conda-build/pull/4867

    • (IF) Need to figure out how we test packages

    • (IF) Cross-python still needs to work

    • (IF) CMake and simple packages compile

    • (IF) Tests in bld.bat need to be skipped when cross-compiling

      • https://github.com/conda-forge/zlib-feedstock/pull/72/files#diff-54cf74e113dd3f6d11e092fdb1d888ec82c69bdafbb15cfb6570c83ecad28f33R61-R65

    • (JK) Question about machines

      • (IF) Could use Microsoft hosted runners (need admin permissions on GH account)

        • (MRB) Can we be added to their account?

          • (IF) Can ask. Mainly they need a token

          • (MRB) Token could work

        • (JRG) Also happy to help setup

        • (MRB) Do we need to gatekeep

          • (IF) Not needed

  • [x] (JK) Drop CentOS 6 & use CentOS 7

    • https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-forge.github.io/issues/1436

    • Most recent discussion around Zstd

      • https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-forge.github.io/issues/1436#issuecomment-1608454474

    • Extra flags (needs testing)

      • https://github.com/conda-forge/linux-sysroot-feedstock/pull/50

    • CentOS 7 EOL is May 31 2024: https://wiki.centos.org/About/Product

    • MRB: Announce that our EOL will correspond to EOL for CentOS 6.

Active votes

Your __new__() agenda items

  • [x] (JK) Sunsetting old CUDAs (follow up)

    • https://github.com/conda-forge/docker-images/pull/237

    • https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-forge-pinning-feedstock/pull/1708

    • CUDA hardware support

      • https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-gpus

    • (JRG) Mentioned to a couple HPC groups that CUDA minimum may be bumped & they moved to 11.2

    • (MRB) Believe DOE would be ok with CUDA 11.2+

    • Summary: we don’t care about 11.0 and 11.1 support.

    • (IF) but should do some final checking with others.

  • [x] (BH) Upcoming conda + conda-build releases

    • Channel priorities (when will we move to strict?)

      • https://docs.conda.io/projects/conda/en/stable/user-guide/tasks/manage-channels.html#strict

    • (MBa) If we change this we neeed an announcement.

    • (MRB) can follow deprecation cycle.

Pushed to next meeting

CFEPs

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