conda-forge core meeting 2023-02-08
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 | 
| Keith Kraus | KJK | kkraus14 | Voltron Data | 
| Gabriela Vives | GV | gabrielavives | QuantStack | 
| Mark Harfouche | MH | hmaarrfk | Self | 
| Cheng H. Lee | CHL | chenghlee | Anaconda/cf | 
| Daniel Bast | DB | dbast | Anaconda | 
| Sylvain Corlay | SC | SylvainCorlay | QuantStack | 
| John Kirkham | JK | jakirkham | NVIDIA/cf | 
| Jaime Rodríguez-Guerra | JRG | jaimergp | Quansight/cf | 
11 people total
Standing items
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intros for new folks on the call
- Gabriela UX ! at Quanstack, working on Quetz maintainers dashboard
 - Daniel @ Anaconda,
 
 - 
open votes
 
From previous meeting(s)
Active votes
Your new() agenda items
-  (DPC) Next round of Outreachy is coming.
- Please start thinking about potential projects.
 - Note that funding from Anaconda has not yet been confirmed.
 
 -  (DPC) Propose a joint conda/conda-forge community booth at PyCon US 2023.
- Jannis will attend PyCon US and is interested in staffing the booth, but can't be in this call
 - No objections, so yes.
 - Cheng: We should reach out to Bioconda as well. Marcel will ask.
 
 -  (GV) Demo a prototype for the Quetz maintainers dashboard
- Link to the prototype
- The clickable features get highlighted in blue when you click anywhere on the prototype
- If you want to leave comments, you can do so directly on the prototype, or on this issue
- SC: This is work from a CZI grant to Quantstack and Quansight.
 
 - The initial conda-forge status website is here
 
 - Link to the prototype
- The clickable features get highlighted in blue when you click anywhere on the prototype
- If you want to leave comments, you can do so directly on the prototype, or on this issue
 -  (JK) CUDA SDK & CUDA 12 Packaging
- https://github.com/conda-forge/staged-recipes/issues/21382
 - (KJK) Interactions between core members
 
 - (JK) NSIS stable links
 -  (MH) CDTs for GTK-3.0 -- Desktop Integration for Qt 5.15
- Qt Desktop Integration in Linux can benefit from Qt compilation with GTK bindings. The mainly helps integrate desktop apps (Napari, Spyder, and others)
- The file chooser
 - Font hinting.
 - Theming
 - CDTs pros:
- Less maintenance.
 - "Older versions" better compatibility?
 
 - CDT cons:
- ?????
 
 
 - Guidance on CDTs
- mesa/OpenGL?
- Does not allow visibility of the system GL implementation.
 - Needs more "hacking" and might not work with Centos6, Centos7.
 - Installing a conda-forge package would conflict
 
 - X11? https://github.com/conda-forge/qt-main-feedstock/pull/114
 - Wayland???
 - GTK? https://github.com/conda-forge/qt-main-feedstock/pull/105
 
 - mesa/OpenGL?
 
 - Qt Desktop Integration in Linux can benefit from Qt compilation with GTK bindings. The mainly helps integrate desktop apps (Napari, Spyder, and others)
 - (JRG) SDG proposal for opt-in CI: https://hackmd.io/6jp_6RxzQ5GTA9ltBgEylg
 - (JRG) Enable 
error_overlinkingin existing feedstocks (https://github.com/conda-forge/staged-recipes/pull/21940) - (DPC) A conda-forge tutorial has been submitted to Open Source On-ramp, a part of Open Source Summit North America 2023
 
Pushed to next meeting
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