2023-06-07 Conda Community Meeting

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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
Dave Clements	DPC	Anaconda	tnabtaf
Travis Hathaway	TH	Anaconda	travishathaway
Filipe Fernandes	FF	conda-forge	ocefpaf
Jonathan Helmus	JH	Anaconda	jjhelmus
Cheng H. Lee	CHL	Anaconda/cf	chenghlee
Katherine Chen Abrikian	KCA	Anaconda	kalawac
Marius van Niekerk	MvN	Voltron Data/cf	mariusvniekerk
Katherine Kinnaman	KK	Anaconda	kathatherine
Jannis Leidel	JL	Anaconda/cf	jezdez
John Kirkham	JK	NVIDIA/cf	jakirkham

13 people in total

Introductions

• Jonathan Helmus back in the conda-verse

Announcements

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New Agenda Items

• (DPC) Draft project update for NumFOCUS June Newsletter
  • Please add / comment / etc.
  • DPC will submit to NumFOCUS on his Friday morning (US Pacific Time).
• (JH) Optional dependencies in conda
  • https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kg5uAmBHD690av7or0XO3F-ObRIDGKNw3up8kE_kc8A/edit?usp=sharing
• (TH) pre_command and post_command plugin hooks (should be ready by version 23.7.0 🤞)
  • Demo project showing how pre_command works: https://github.com/travishathaway/conda-envlock/
    • Consider naming it to conda-protect; don't include the word lock
  • Ideas were originally discussed in this CEP draft: https://github.com/conda-incubator/ceps/pull/45
  • JL: Need to be coordinating messaging towards users when we explain "locking", e.g. overlap with conda-lock and https://github.com/conda/conda/issues/12245
• (TH) I might be coming to your repository to submit a pull request if you have a conda subcommand tool (e.g. conda-project, conda-lock)
  • Subcommand plugin hooks.
• (KCA) plugins to manage activate/deactivate functionality -- POSIX prototypes ready for review and comments:
  • conda PR
  • gist explaining considerations (draft CEP to be created and will be linked under gist)
• (JL) conda-libmamba-solver
  • We should be more clear on what we intend to do.
  • Will ship conda-libmamba-solver in 2023.05 Miniconda & Anaconda installers, but not enabled by default.
  • Target September (2023.09) releases to make libmamba the default solver.
  • Classic solver will still be available.