2020-11-17 Conda Community Meeting

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Last Meeting's Agenda and Minutes

Attendees

Name	Initials	Affiliation	Username
Megan Yancy	MCY	Anaconda	@myancy-anaconda
Sebastien Awwad	SA	Anaconda distro team	@awwad
Kale Franz	KF	Anaconda	@kalefranz
Cheng Lee	CHL	Anaconda	@chenghlee
Michael Grant	MG	Anaconda	mcg1969
CJ Wright	CJ	Lab49	@cj-wright
Matthew Becker			beckermr
Amy Williams	AW	Anaconda	awilliams-anaconda
Filipe Fernandes	FF		@ocefpaf
Gonzalo Peña-Castellanos	GPC	Quansight	@goanpeca
Crystal Soja	CAS	Anaconda	csoja
Marcelo Duarte Trevisani	MDT	conda-forge	@marcelotrevisani
Marcel Bargull	MB	conda-forge/Bioconda	@mbargull
Michael Sarahan	MCS		@msarahan

Agenda

• Welcome

Announcements

Standing Items

• N/A

New Agenda Items

• Rotating Meeting Facilitator
  • Call for volunteers
  • (@goanpeca)
• Anaconda: Organizational-level CLA
  • No current updates
• Overview of artifact verification / package signing for conda (adaptation of The Update Framework) -- SA
  • Slides here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1YkY62Q8DVfCpeYq7_iI7d5aWeYQnj7ghtPWUDRHSSNE/edit?usp=sharing
• conda-pack issue curation: labeling completed, contributors invited - MG
  • Call for volunteers
  • https://github.com/conda/conda-pack/issues

Outstanding Items From the Previous Meeting

• N/A

Active Votes

• Triaging and Issue Tracking meeting (KF): https://doodle.com/poll/cqpw3pkpew4tex5r
  • Please vote!

Subteam Updates

Open PRs

• N/A

Discussion

• Ways to address diversity inclusiveness issues
  • new sub-team - charter for maintaining and advancing conda-forge as a diverse community, try to grow. Charter is dynamic. Looking for those who are not core contributors of conda-forge.
  • Would like input on document
  • https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-forge.github.io/pull/1187
• Availability of artifact verification features to other pieces of software (than conda):
  • SA: @Wolf, Please be aware that at first, we're offering the trust and signing data to paid folks, because... lights on. But I don't see why support for consuming that data shouldn't be handled in any package manager frontend talking to the repository. There's a project with the majority of the low-level code and a set of algorithms. The process of integrating that into conda (or other managers) is a delicate thing, so I'm hoping that the guidelines are helpful enough... but this will improve after conda integration.
  • Wolf: sure. with quetz we're working hard to support mirroring of conda-channels (specifically conda-forge), and this trust & verification is pretty integral for that so ... we might have to implement this anyways, and then it would probably make sense to do it in the same fashion as upstream
  • SA: that'd be good, yeah. We can talk about the TUF work underlying it at the least

Action items

Previous Meetings

Last Meeting 202001102

• Schedule community issue triage kick-off mtg -- ?? Draft of triaging guidelines: https://gist.github.com/kalefranz/0c812846e5d755c29b067ba56b8a8ddf

  • KF will schedule
  • Update: Please give interest and availability for first meeting at https://doodle.com/poll/cqpw3pkpew4tex5r

• Anaconda: get clarification about using "conda" trademark in community project names

  • With Anaconda legal/marketing; hoping to get a blanket statement à la Arduino/Debian

• Website: Check the draft for text on the website so design process can continue with some actual content.

  • https://github.com/conda-incubator/assets/issues/2
  • Anaconda needs legal to sign-off on logo, etc.

• Conda Community Triage / Conda Triage

  • Conda Constructor
  • Conda
    • @kalefranz:
      • Conda GitHub org cleanup:
        • Review a list of proposed repositories to remove from github.com/conda and move elsewhere. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QZGJ59GshRxyqLGhNohGn-zNjX2EU-Or9jh6x86fZes
        • Update: Waiting on Anaconda IT department to create repositories under github.com/ContinuumIO
  • Conda-build
  • Conda-Pack
  • Ensureconda
  • setup-miniconda / setup-miniforge (github actions)
  • grayskull
  • conda-mirror
  • conda-suggest
  • conda-press
  • conda-lock
  • libronda

• Organize list on this hackmd on 'short term'/'medium term'/'long term' actionable items?

  • Priority order:
    • Roadmap: https://github.com/conda/conda/milestone/38
    • CLA

      • Look into modified CLA - organizations and other companies?

  • Discussion: KF is creating/updating process documentation of conda/conda-build Permissions are needed to let people update - need github ids members currently on call will be added for issue-management permissions to edit on repositories Triage during community call? (FF, MCG)- needs scheduling - some time in november? Kick-off meeting?

• Organize list on this hackmd on 'short term'/'medium term'/'long term' actionable items?

  • Priority order:
    • Roadmap: https://github.com/conda/conda/milestone/38
    • CLA

Action Items

• Anaconda: Organizational-level CLA

Discussion

Move to Issue Tracker

Current Action Items