2019-04-03 conda-forge meeting

Pinned Items

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New items

• Conda-forge on Open Source Directions
• Should we send something for the SciPy Tools plenary? https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdyemkK_NV1k6kp9ZakHm566nYUxrfCv7lO_MlNXKEoUv2I8w/viewform
  • Not done, CJ following up on what we need to do
• SciPy plans and how to spend ESIP/NumFOCUS sprint grant money.
• Elections/Governance (let’s put an election for those two.)
  • Staged
    • Progress?
    • mjscosta
      • "I can review C++ and Python, and Python + extensions recipes."
    • xhochy
    • etadeu
  • Core
    • pkgw
  • Split help teams from staged-recipes permissions?
    • Go forward with splitting help teams from staged
  • Staged team in Governance doc
    • https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-forge.github.io/pull/738
  • Add formal budget team to Governance doc
• Should we "dogfood" strict, which may be default in the next conda, in our CIs? The only known issue is numpy /scipy on Windows because of BLAS requirements 1openblas (numpy)vs mkl (scipy). We need to either make mkl a first class citizen on Windows or have a scipy build with openblas.
  • https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-forge-ci-setup-feedstock/pull/50
  • https://github.com/conda-forge/staged-recipes/pull/8009
  • Perform switch after blas migration is more finished
• Azure status
  • Need to fix windows (vc9 and cmake)
  • Credentials issues (need pipelines account to access Azure, will move to GH auth soon)
  • How to handle bespoke build agents (for builds taking longer than 6 hours (qt, compilers, etc.))
  • How to restart an Azure job?
• NVIDIA
  • Louder communication path for large ecosystem shifts (compiler migrations)
    • Banner on AnacondaCloud, status updates on channel
    • Print something while using conda install
    • More frequent updates
  • AnacondaCloud can fall over (mirroring conda)
  • Try to track down hard linked drivers in GPU packages.
• Migrations
  • Blas
    • Underway
  • Libprotobuf
    • Underway
  • gfortran
    • Need to build a migrator for new osx gfortran
    • https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-forge-pinning-feedstock/pull/174 maybe?
  • Power and Arm
    • Ongoing https://conda-forge.org/status/
    • More leafs to target?
  • Openssl
    • Underway
  • Readline
    • ABI change
    • Needs migrator
    • May want to wait
  • @Christopher W : Add link to migration docs for conda-forge.github.io
• Conda-Forge miniconda (Should we mark this as resolved and proceed with conda-pack?)
  • Sophia did some benchmarks and showed that using a conda-pack’d archive reduced CI setup time down to about 2 seconds instead of the 40 seconds it takes to install miniconda and switch out all the packages for the conda-forge ones: https://gitter.im/conda-forge/conda-forge.github.io?at=5c79a37dd2d62067b72a849d
  • Mike’s point was who owns the support for a conda-forge miniconda distro? https://gitter.im/conda-forge/conda-forge.github.io?at=5c7992a9e1446a6ebe6871d2
• Nvidia relationship
  • Anaconda met with Rapids (NVIDIA) team
  • Reach out to NVIDIA to attend meetings
  • Add NVIDIA person to core?
  • Add to governance discussing donations and governance.
  • More followup with NVIDIA needed
  • Building GPU packages using conda-forge packages, upload to their own channel after building with cudatoolkit on their own Jenkins system.
  • Maybe form a working group?
• Perl ecosystem?
  • move forward with plan to incorporate perl into CF
    • Do we have an issue or something for this?