2024-03-27 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
Schuyler Martin	SM	Anaconda	schuylermartin45
Cheng H. Lee	CHL	Anaconda/cf	chenghlee
Marcel Bargull	MB	Bioconda/cf	mbargull
Daniel Holth	DH	Anaconda	dholth
Klaus Zimmermann	KZ	Quansight	zklaus
Jaime Rodríguez-Guerra	JRG	Quansight/cf	jaimergp
Marius van Niekerk	MvN	Voltron Data/cf	mariusvniekerk
Bas Zalmstra	BZ	Prefix.dev	baszalmstra
Michael Sarahan	MCS	NVIDIA/CF	msarahan
Nichita Morcotilo	NM	Prefix.dev	nichmor

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Introductions

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Announcements

• (MB) First recipes using stdlib("c") jinja function landed on conda-forge
  • Spearheaded by HV
  • Allows recipe to explictly declare, e.g., what macOS, glibc versions are being targeted
  • More details: https://conda-forge.org/news/2024/03/24/stdlib-migration/ & https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-forge.github.io/issues/2102
• (SM) ~85% of Anaconda Recipes can be "successfully" converted to the new format
  • "Success" means no crashing, no errors detected.
    • Error detection not guaranteed to be perfect
    • Success does not mean the output conforms to the standard/is consumable by rattler-build
  • Working on developing automated integration testing to get better data
    • Would like to have a few thousand meta.yaml files from conda-forge and AnacondaRecipes
• (NM) (https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-smithy/pull/1876) Initial integration of rattler-build in conda-smithy

New Agenda Items

• (MB) Load/performance issues on anaconda.org ?

  • https://github.com/conda/infrastructure/issues/899

• (MB) Python 3.12 builds for conda-forge::conda-build=24.3 should land today.

  • Anything else "big" missing for Python 3.12 on conda-forge/defaults?
    • (CHL) On Anaconda's side, we're more or less done, especially ts

• (CHL) Should we add version & build to __win virtual package?

  • Anaconda's and conda-forge's repodata.json currently only use non-versioned __win for run requirements.
  • We should ask Isuru at next week's conda-forge core meeting
  • Matrix thread started by mamba team
  • https://www.whatismybrowser.com/guides/the-latest-user-agent/windows
  • Do we need a CEP?
    • (MB) We should definitely coordinate between mamba and conda, but not sure we actually need a CEP
    • (BZ) Please also include rattler in the conversation.
  • (JRG) Should take this as an opportunity to revisit old decisions about other platforms like macOS versions
    • (MB) Let's put different OSes into one CEP.
  • (CHL) Based on this converstions, let's put together a "quick" CEP.

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