2019-01-09 conda-forge meeting

Pinned Items

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New items

• Journal article update
  • https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-forge-paper
  • A draft of a skeleton is in PR, comments, edits, and more are encouraged! https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-forge-paper/pulls
  • Who should be authors on the paper?
  • xref bioconda nature methods paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41592-018-0046-7
• Elections
  • Sylvain
    • Pending Mike for vote tallies
      • Pole is complete, Mike will post results soon
  • Matthew Becker
    • done (or at least on https://github.com/orgs/conda-forge/teams/staged-recipes/members – nothing else to do, right? we should document that)
• Meta Channel
  • https://github.com/regro/conda-metachannel
• New Arches
  • aarch64 and ppc building
    • Shippable
    • Qemu on CI
• When to add gcc7 to main or flip the channels? - Proposal: Jan 15th
• Conda-forge on Open Source Directions

Previous items

• CloudFlare Migration
  • Sophia will add a diagram of the system
  • To go live tomorrow, Wed Nov 28, morning (~9 AM central). Anaconda will monitor it actively.
  • MichaelS/Sophia will announce this start time on gitter along with the diagram and a rehash of the reasoning and changes proposed.
• NumFOCUS Small Grant Proposal accept and we just got 3000USD for the "conda-forge sprint at SciPy 2019"
• GSoC 2019
  • https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline
• Compiler rebuild status
  • python done for both compiler stacks
  • Qt: try to build on Azure?
• (DISCUSSED/Postponed) New approach to reducing CI load https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-forge.github.io/issues/647
  • Might be possible to not be totally insecure with work. But nobody is volunteering to do that work right now. :)
  • Pushing PR builds to a staging channel might be a nice UX improvement so you can test anyway.
• Copying packages to gcc7 label https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-smithy/issues/892
  • MPI metapackage
  • Just wait for new conda 4.6 with strict channel priority, and then add main label to those builds
• (DISCUSSED/Postponed)Mergify = auto-merge version bump PRs when CIs pass?
  • https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-forge-maintenance/issues/49
  • Worry about bot not detecting dependency changes
  • Definitely opt-in only at first
  • One possibility: only after an approved review (so you can say "merge assuming CIs pass")
• Add overlinking error flag by default?