2022-08-17 Conda Community Meeting

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Attendees

Name	Initials	Affiliation	GH Username
Cheng H. Lee	CHL	Anaconda/cf	chenghlee
Ken Odegard	KO	Anaconda	kenodegard
Bianca Henderson	BH	Anaconda	beeankha
Dave Clements	DPC	Anaconda	tnabtaf
John Kirkham	JK	NVIDIA/cf	jakirkham
Daniel Holth	DH	Anaconda	dholth
Daniel Ching	DJC	Argonne	carterbox
Jason McAllister	JMC	Anaconda	Solid-Snake-Jay

12 people total

Introductions

Announcements

• (CHL; BH) Reminder to vote on Plugins Mechanism Implementation CEP
  • 9 YEA, 0 NAY / 16 Steering Council Members
  • one more vote until quorum
• (CHL; KO) Reminder to vote on Conda Release Schedule CEP
  • 10 YEA, 0 NAY / 16 Steering Council Members
  • has reached quorum
• (JMC) SHA-256 checksums went live on anaconda.org yesterday

New Agenda Items

• (JK) Improving dev tooling experience
  • https://github.com/conda/conda-build/issues/4559
  • https://conda.slack.com/archives/C017C690FLP/p1657693438457519
  • (not originally discussed, but related) https://github.com/mamba-org/boa/issues/292
  • Particularly when using conda when developing libraries; build in-place type of functionality
  • (MS) conda debug can create environment based to test. How to tie back in environment changes into the recipe
  • C++ users with large code bases; improve conda develop?
  • (MS) How do you know a rebuild is needed?
    • (JK) CMake caches as does Cython, but not all tools do.
  • (CHL) will collect tickets and put together epics to work on this.
• (DPC) Conda Communication Channels Update proposal
  • Chat, Forum, Announcements Mailing List
  • Is this a good idea?
  • What platform choices should we make?
  • (JRG) Should focus on forum, not instant messaging
• (DPC) conda.org
  • Call for interested team members.
  • Content ideas: (DPC) news & events feed
• (CJ) Telemetry, potentially as plug-in
  • (CHL) What kind? (CJ) E.g., What was the conda config, what was requested, what was installed?
  • (ED) Interested in internal collection (within a company)? Local telemetry server.
  • (CHL) Have discussed at the local level; want to avoid collecting usernames or other PII.
  • (JK) What about autofilling a GitHub issue when Conda fails?
  • (ED) Idea to submit results to telemetry server and gives a UUID to user (to find issue)
  • (BH) Potential extension to conda doctor
  • (CJ) How should we configure plugins? (condarc vs per-plugin config file)
• (JK) Anaconda.org feedback
  • Past conda-forge feedback doc: https://hackmd.io/AEGxv_-8QIOylb56_wQozg?both

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.