2022-09-14 Conda Community Meeting
Attendees
| Name | Initials | Affiliation | GH Username |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dave Clements | DPC | Anaconda | tnabtaf |
| Matthias Bussonnier | MB | Quansight | Carreau |
| Jannis Leidel | JL | Anaconda | jezdez |
| Filipe Fernandes | FF | conda-forge | ocefpaf |
| Matthew Becker | MRB | cf | beckermr |
| Cheng H. Lee | CHL | Anaconda/cf | chenghlee |
| Travis Hathaway | TH | Anaconda | travishathaway |
| Kartik Raj | KR | VSCode Python | karrtikr |
| Jaime Rodríguez-Guerra | JRG | Quansight/cf | jaimergp |
| Katherine Kinnaman | KK | Anaconda | kathatherine |
| Michael Sarahan | MCS | RStudio | msarahan |
15 people total
Introductions
- Matthias Bussonnier!
Announcements
- (JL) Plugins
- Need to scale updates and contribs
- Plugins are a means to do this.
- Also maintains stability in core.
New Agenda Items
- (CHL) Yanking conda packages from PyPI
conda <=4.3.16installed in~/.localtriggersAttributeError: module 'platform' has no attribute 'linux_distribution'errors when used with newer python & conda releases.- Yanking, not deleting!
- MB: I would suggest also pushing a dummy new version with nothing in it. Potentially even that raise in setup.py with an informative error message.
- May bring actually funcational conda back to PyPI at TBD
- ensureconda may be a reasonable alternative. GH
- (DPC) Discourse Forum Update
- We were granted a free site by Discourse
- Would love feedback on site organization (see option 5)
- (DPC) conda.org
- Join us!
- MB: I would advise looking first to who is going to write the code. Don't fall into the trap of making it targetted to non-technical users, and alienating technical one. Also when doing design, make sure you already have someone who is going to do the implementation.
- (MB) conda.sh.
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bash <(curl -L conda.sh)detect platforms. Help with windows ?- (can't
|as installer needs stdin.) - JRG: I think stdin is disabled with the -b option enabled
- (can't
- conda-incubator project: https://github.com/conda-incubator/conda.sh
- contributions welcome!
- Someone set a reminder to renew domain before 2023-09-06!
- Maybe also move ot off OVH ?
- Don't mine crypto...
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- (JL) plugins kickoff phase 2
- Higher level epic: https://github.com/conda/conda/issues/11820
- Various work streams in flight
- plugins infrastructure (merged into feature branch)
- new sub-commands plugin API (merged into feature branch)
- virtual packages definitions as plugin hooks
- pluginification of the solver API (libmamba solver as first case)
- More use cases needed!
- conda community project team for plugins?
- (JRG) Invite conda-tree over to conda-incubator?
- YES.
- (MCS) Conda-build project status?
- skipping (part of) overlinking checks: https://github.com/conda/conda-build/pull/4576
- (MRB) help with conda-package-handling builds
- (KR) Discuss recommendations from conda regarding environment creation and environment watching
- conda create -n or create -p ?
- Can environments.txt file be used for watching?
- xxx
- xxx
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.