2022-07-20 Conda Community Meeting

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Attendees

Name	Initials	Affiliation	GH Username
Travis Hathaway	TH	Anaconda	travishathaway
Ken Odegard	KO	Anaconda	kenodegard
Matthew Becker	MRB	cf	beckermr
Eric Dill	EDD	voltrondata	ericdill
Jaime Rodríguez-Guerra	JRG	Quansight/cf	jaimergp
Cheng H. Lee	CHL	Anaconda	chenghlee
Katherine Kinnaman	KK	Anaconda	kathatherine
Daniel J. Ching	DJC	Argonne	carterbox
Bianca Henderson	BH	Anaconda	beeankha
Carl Anderson	CA	Anaconda	barabo
Daniel Holth	DH	Anaconda	dholth
Marcelo Duarte Trevisani	MDT	conda-forge	marcelotrevisani
Jannis Leidel	JL	Anaconda/cf	jezdez
John Kirkham	JK	NVIDIA/cf	jakirkham

21 people present

Introductions

• Jason McAllister: Anaconda PM for Navigator and Anaconda.org

Announcements

• (JL) New and improved Code of Conduct!

  • https://github.com/conda-incubator/governance/pull/49
  • New Code of Conduct team responsible via the conda governance policy
  • Thank you for all volunteers for that new team!!

• (CHL; JM) Update on Anaconda.org SHA-256 package checksums

  • Final stages of testing; should see release in ~3 weeks

• (BH; JH) conda rename got merged!

  • https://github.com/conda/conda/issues/3097
  • https://github.com/conda/conda/pull/11496

New Agenda Items

• (CHL) Publishing event to Scientific Python calendar

  • https://scientific-python.org/calendars/
  • (JRG) we will need to make sure we are serving the needs for a broader audience in the right way:
    • Process for the agenda: open on Monday, close on Tuesday, discuss on Wednesday, to avoid too much noise in the meeting
    • Recordings?
    • Meeting notes: who is in charge of writing things down, and update the community website accordingly
    • In essence, make it nice for everyone who wants to join
    • There must be resources out there set by other communities we can reuse / be inspired by

• (WV) conda env removal

  • https://github.com/conda/conda/issues/11633
  • (WV) does it go too far? :)
  • (KO) not advocating for its removal (ATM), rather to freeze it until everything gets sorted
  • Need UX research to understand how different user personas interact with existing commands (e.g., experienced vs new users)
  • (JRG) Generally Inconsistency in commands and flags
  • (MRB) conda env export is something we definitely need to keep

• (KK) conda.org website planning introduction

  • https://github.com/conda-incubator/conda.org
  • #conda-dot-org on conda slack channel
  • looking for community input
  • Also looking for help on how we manage such a website in a sustainable way (content moderation, maintenance, new features, etc.)

• (JRG) Custom S3 channels documentation / tests?

  • (JL) Will ask internally at Anaconda if other teams have worked on this

• (DJC) CFEP License packages for header-only/static libraries

  • https://github.com/conda-forge/cfep/pull/47
  • tl;dr header-only/static library packages should run_export an empty package (which contains the license text)
  • (WV) Should this be a run_export, or should we add a new license_export key to conda-build?

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.