2022-06-22 Conda Community Meeting
Attendees
| Name | Initials | Affiliation | GH Username |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jannis Leidel | JL | Anaconda | jezdez |
| Dave Clements | DPC | Anaconda | tnabtaf |
| Bianca Henderson | BH | Anaconda | beeankha |
| Filipe Fernandes | FF | conda-forge | ocefpaf |
| John Kirkham | JK | cf/NVIDIA | jakirkham |
| Daniel Holth | DH | Anaconda | dholth |
| Ken Odegard | KO | Anaconda | kenodegard |
| Marius van Niekerk | MvN | Voltron Data | mariusvniekerk |
| Katherine Kinnaman | KK | Anaconda | kathatherine |
11 people present
Introductions
Announcements
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(MRB, absent, please read out) Please remember to vote on adding Jaime to the steering council
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(MRB, absent, please read out) Please send comments on the new governance PR (https://github.com/conda-incubator/governance/pull/51)
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(JL) CEP 6 vote passed and implemenation is on the final stretch
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(JL) Intention to call for vote for Code of Conduct proposal
- https://github.com/conda-incubator/governance/pull/49
- Steering Council Input still welcome!
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(JL) NEW! Public "planning" project board for some conda projects:
- https://github.com/orgs/conda/projects/2
- Single source of truth for Open Source efforts, including some agile ceremonies of the conda team at Anaconda
- Open for feedback and hopefully improves visibility of priorities
- Covers a number of dimensions of project management:
- issue sorting
- support requests
- backlog review
- sprint planning
- sprint review
- documentation issues
- epics
- tentative roadmap plans
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(JL) NEW! CEP project board to track pull requests and issues:
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(JL) Reminder: conda development sprint at SciPy 2022 in Austin July 16/17
- focus on getting beginners to contribute
- no need to commit to specific features or shipping code
- informal event to talk about all things conda (and friends)
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(JL) New constructor community team
- Formally transfers constructor, menuinst and conda-pack from "federated" to "community" project status. See governance policy for more info on "federated projects"
- New team consists of 10 members of the community
- Ticket: https://github.com/conda-incubator/governance/issues/53
- conda team: https://github.com/orgs/conda-incubator/teams/constructor/members
- conda-incubator team: https://github.com/orgs/conda/teams/constructor/members
- Goals are:
- improve maintenance of these fundamental projects of the eco system
- unblock contributions from community members (e.g. Jaime's work via Napari)
- have a common code base for "installers" in the ecosystem
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(JL) conda-zsh-completions moved to conda-incubator
- Author esc reached out and asked to transfer it, thank you for years of maintenance!
- Goal is to hand-over maintenance to community and align with other people interested in improved shell integration
- New team with broader name "conda-completions":
- May be realigned in future if plans for shell integration change
- Contributors and feedback welcome!
New Agenda Items
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(JK) Handling other shells ( https://github.com/conda/conda/issues/6820 )
- Apple uses zsh by default on macOS
- Fish also sees a fair bit of usage
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(JL) Consolidating conda CLA information into conda/infra repo
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(DPC) Fiscal Sponsorship Proposal
- Fiscal sponsorship allows us to accept funding and manage trademarks. Creates conda as a legal entity
- Submissions are due by July 15, which means we need input soon, so we can finish voting before that.
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(KK) Conda capitalization
- If you care to comment, please do!
- Main consensus currently is to follow what Git does. Git for organization/program, git for command
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- Coming soon
- Downloads partial conda packages (both formats) for quick metadata inspection or any in-memory use
- Byproduct of conda-index improvements
What is this meeting for?
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.