conda-forge core meeting 2022-11-30
Add new agenda items under the Your __new__() agenda items heading
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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
- 
intros for new folks on the call
- alex dibbley from nvidia
 
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open votes
 
From previous meeting(s)
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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
 
 - 
(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
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(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-recipessince 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
 
 - (JK) Can do 
 
 
 - 
(DPC) Submitting Conda Ecosystem Update talk to PyCascades in a few hours.
- I would love your input on the abstract. If it gets accepted will also ask for help on the slides.
 - conda-forge scipy talk if you want to use content from it
 
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(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
 
 
 - Would a "Make your software available via conda-forge" tutorial be a good fit
 - 
(JK)
.condafollow up-  (JK) Update 
conda-package-handlingto2.0.1( https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-package-handling-feedstock/pull/68 ) -  (JK) Fixes to 
re-render( https://github.com/conda-forge/webservices-dispatch-action/issues/18 ) -  (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
 
 - (MRB) Needs a new release of 
 - (JL) anaconda.org partial downtime this week: https://github.com/conda/infra/discussions/656
 
 -  (JK) Update 
 - 
(JK)
openssl1/3 &qt5/6- 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
 
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(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
 
 -  https://github.com/conda/conda/releases/tag/22.11.0
 
Pushed to next meeting
- (JRG) Support for abi3 Python packages with abi3audit checks?
 
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