2023-04-12 Conda Community Meeting

Various parts of the conda community gather on a regular basis. This meeting brings together all of these sub-communities for a community wide call.

Attendees

Name	Initials	Affiliation	GH Username
Travis Hathaway	TH	Anaconda	travishathaway
Jesse Wiles	JWW	Anaconda	jessewiles
Bianca Henderson	BH	Anaconda	beeankha
Dave Clements	DPC	Anaconda	tnabtaf
Jannis Leidel	JL	Anaconda	jezdez
Katherine Kinnaman	KK	Anaconda	kathatherine
Marcel Bargull	MB	Bioconda/cf	mbargull
Mahe Iram Khan	MIK	Anaconda	forgottenprogramme
Jaime Rodríguez-Guerra	JRG	Quansifght/cf	jaimergp

12 people in total

(TH) CEP 10: Conda Version Support passed
- Only applicable to the conda code base (e.g. not conda-build)
- The latest main version (e.g. 23.3.x) of conda will be the only officially supported version
- Works together with CEP 8 (release schedule) and CEP 9 (deprecation schedule)
(DPC) Conda at PyCon US
- Especially Sprint, and Open Space meetup
- Also tutorial, talks, ...
(KK) Conda.org proposal accepted to Google Season of Docs
- Currently going through applicants (we have over 50!)
- When selected, freelance tech writer will help the conda.org team with website content and maybe help with conda docs in general

(JWW) Deprecating two API endpoints on anaconda.org
- GET /user/{owner}/dist_downloads/{start}--{end}
- GET /user/{owner}/downloads/{start}--{end}
- Getting rid of data on the server side. The above two end points use the data that we are planning on dropping.
- Record of the packages that your organization owns.
- Data going back to the start of time will not be available.
- JRG - can this be archived some where?
  - JWW: the plan is it will go into cold storage (eg, glacier.)
  - be good to ask conda-forge
JRG conda-incubator ... (something or other that Dave missed)
- A supporting repo for contructor and some (?) feedstocks in conda-forge
- Building msys.
- JL: still keep it in the conda organization.