2024-08-14 Conda Community Meeting

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.

Attendees

Name	Initials	Affiliation	GH Username
Schuyler Martin	SM	Anaconda	schuylermartin45
Filipe Fernandes	FF	conda-forge	ocefpaf
Eric Dill	ED	Anaconda/CF	ericdill
Katherine Kinnaman	KK	Anaconda	kathatherine
Marco Esters	ME	Anaconda	marcoesters
Jaime Rodríguez-Guerra	JRG	Quansight	jaimergp
Cheng H. Lee	CHL	Anaconda/CF	chenghlee
Aaron Opfer	AO
Daniel Holth	DH	Anaconda	dholth
Dasha Gurova	DG	Anaconda	dashagurova

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(DG)Conda Communications update:
- conda ecosystem explained blog PR: https://github.com/conda-incubator/conda-dot-org/pull/198
  - preview: https://deploy-preview-198--conda-dot-org.netlify.app/blog/2024-08-14-conda-ecosystem-explained
- New YouTube channel too
- Twitter? Mastodon?
- AO: "-c conda-forge" instructions in projects documentation for a Miniconda install will make you mix defaults and conda-forge. We are not documenting this well, or even enforcing this in the conda clients.
  - JRG: Draft a cep that proposes a convention for channels to have "_abi_tag" packages that export a fingerprint they commit to. e.g. conda-forge and bioconda would both have _abi_tag=2024.8.14=conda-forge, defaults would have _abi_tag=2024.8.14=defaults. If this doesn't work, maybe some repodata.json fields.
AO: Demo about conda-curation: https://github.com/AaronOpfer/conda_curation
- AO: Written in Rust, purpose to filter out unneeded things from repodata.json
  - Performance improvements for the downstream solves, better error messages
- JRG: Similar to https://github.com/conda-incubator/conda-subchannel?