2024-06-05 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
Jannis Leidel	JL	Anaconda/conda/cf	jezdez
Marco Esters	ME	Anaconda	marcoesters
Filipe Fernandes	FF	conda-forge	ocefpaf
Bianca Henderson	BH	Anaconda	beeankha
Wolf Vollprecht	WV	prefix.dev	wolfv
Jaime Rodríguez-Guerra	JRG	Quansight/cf	jaimergp
Nichita Morcotilo	NM	prefix.dev	nichmor
Marcel Bargull	MB	Bioconda/cf	mbargull
Katherine Kinnaman	KK	Anaconda	kathatherine
Dasha Gurova	DG	Anaconda	dashagurova
Bas Zalmstra	BZ	prefix.dev	baszalmstra

11 people in total

Introductions

• Aaron Opfer, Python dev (Chicago Trading Company)

Announcements

New Agenda Items

• (WV) rattler-build shaping up
  • nushell support
  • files selection support
    • Equivalent in conda-build: https://github.com/conda/conda-build/pull/5216
  • experimental cache support
    • JL: Not sure about the name of cache.
    • JRG: Maybe pre-build?
  • WV: Good time to check the open ceps for comments: https://github.com/conda/ceps/pulls/wolfv
• (WV) reproducible builds effort also shaping up
• (WV) resolvo improvements for up to 10x faster resolves (vs libsolv)
  • just need to finish the error reporter
• (JL) made call for rattler-build focused trial (not just toying!) within Anaconda
  • Any rattler-build starting guide available?
  • Onboarding for conda-build user
• (JRG) A round of informative CEPs just dropped. explicit.txt, environment.yml, MatchSpec grammar.
  • I'd like to end up with something like what packaging.python.org has. Possibly with some elements from OpenContainers too (runtime spec, image-spec, distribution-spec)
• (JL) Governance FYIs and ideas:
  • New discussion: "conda maintainers" team to replace legacy "conda-core" catch-all
    • feedback welcome
    • @dholth, JL, JRG discussed whether to include conda-package-streaming, conda-package-handling in that as well
    • https://github.com/conda/conda/issues/13526
  • FYI: Passed vote and created new "CLA Reviewers" team
    • https://github.com/conda/governance/issues/136
  • Idea: A technical review group, to streamline deep work on standard CEPs
    • this was tried before, we didn't agree on a format
    • How can we help the steering council to review and vote on CEPs that are outside their skillset?