2022-11-09 Conda Community Meeting

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Attendees

Name	Initials	Affiliation	GH Username
Jannis Leidel	JL	Anaconda/cf	jezdez
Filipe Fernandes	FF	conda-forge	ocefpaf
Katherine Kinnaman	KK	Anaconda	kathatherine
Travis Hathaway	TH	Anaconda	travishathaway
Jaime Rodríguez-Guerra	JRG	Quansight/cf	jaimergp
Matthew R Becker	MRB	cf	beckermr
Cheng H. Lee	CHL	Anaconda/cf	chenghlee
Daniel Ching	DJC	Argonne	carterbox
Daniel Holth	DH	Anaconda	dholth

Introductions

Announcements

• JL: Upcoming conda-build 3.23.0 release

  • GH milestone: https://github.com/conda/conda-build/milestone/31
  • Release ticket: https://github.com/conda/conda-build/issues/4617

• JL: Upcoming conda 22.11.0 release

  • GH milestone: https://github.com/conda/conda/milestone/57
  • Release ticket: https://github.com/conda/conda/issues/11932
  • Major headline features: performance improvements, shipping plugins infra, conda-libmamba-solver

New Agenda Items

• JL: conda-libmamba-solver graduation

  • https://github.com/conda-incubator/conda-libmamba-solver/issues/56

• JRG: Progress on conda.org

  • Current MVP: https://conda-dot-org-previews.netlify.app/
  • Exciting landing page: https://github.com/conda-incubator/conda-dot-org/pull/26
    • https://deploy-preview-26--conda-dot-org-previews.netlify.app/

• TH: Configuration for channels changing... :thinking_face:

  • This pull request is a little risky. Changes should be backwards compatible, but we want to be sure of it: https://github.com/conda/conda/pull/12033
  • Issue with justification here: https://github.com/conda/conda/issues/11825

• DH: conda-package-handling 2.0 / add zstandard / subtract libarchive

  • Affects conda (extract packages) and conda-build (create packages)
  • A few weeks after the conda release
  • 2x extract speed for both .conda (more efficient) and .tar.bz2 (threadsafe)
  • Compatible with conda-package-handling-1.x
  • https://anaconda.org/conda/conda-package-handling
  • https://github.com/conda/conda-package-handling

• conda-build and Python isolated mode

  • useful for building conda
  • maybe turn it off for building everything else

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.