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2021-01-12 Conda Community Meeting

Attendees

NameInitialsAffiliationUsername
Marius van NiekerkMvNFlatiron Healthmariusvniekerk
Isabela Presedo-FloydIRPFQuansight Labsisabela-pf
Megan YancyMCYAnacondamyancy-anaconda
Eric DillEDDTNericdill
Connor MartinCJManacondacjmartian
Matthew BeckerMRBconda-forgebeckermr
Uwe KornUKconda-forgexhochy
Crystal SojaCSanacondacsoja
Michael GrantMGanacondamcg1969
Keith KrausKKNVIDIAkkraus14
Michael SarahanMCSRStudiomsarahan

Agenda

  • Welcome
  • Host for next meeting? - MCY

Announcements

Standing Items

  • Anaconda: Organizational-level CLA

New Agenda Items

Outstanding Items From the Previous Meeting

  • Blog post regarding why users should update to Python 3
  • Outreach to invite more organizations to join this meeting

Active Votes

Subteam Updates

Open PRs

  • N/A

Discussion

Action items

  • Anaconda: update on organizational-level CLA

Last meeting points (2020-12-15)

  • Dropping Python 2 support in conda, conda-build in base environment
    • https://github.com/conda/conda/issues/10180
    • https://github.com/conda/conda-build/issues/4024
    • Decision on Python 3.6 vs 3.7? (3.7: UTF-8 by default; data classes)
    • (MG, CS): In favor of conda on 3.6, conda-build on 3.7
    • (MB) concern raised about lag in conda development if significant 3.x refactoring is done
    • (MB) concern about noarch <-> arch upgrade process, raise issue if a shadowed update is available
    • (MB) miniconda 4.5.4 last Py3.6 installer
    • (MS) separate CLI to make such decisions easier; longer term project.
    • (CHL) staying with 3.6 in 2021 unless something else comes up.
  • Should we have a permanent resource (e.g., blog post) saying why users should upgrade? (Probably yes)
  • Who else should we invite to this meeting?
    • Intel
    • IBM (POWER, RedHat -> containers)
    • Pangeo
    • CZI
    • MRB: HPC centers
    • Tensorflow, Pytorch, etc.
    • Others, as needed for specific topics