2024-08-28 Conda Community Meeting
Zoom link · What time is the meeting in my time zone
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cheng H. Lee | CHL | Anaconda/cf | chenghlee |
| Filipe Fernandes | FF | conda-forge | ocefpaf |
| Jaime Rodríguez-Guerra | JRG | Quansight | jaimergp |
| Katherine Kinnaman | KK | Anaconda | kathatherine |
| Klaus Zimmermann | KZ | Quansight | zklaus |
| John Kirkham | JK | NVIDIA/cf | jakirkham |
X people in total
Introductions
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Announcements
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New Agenda Items
- (WV) Security Subteam formation
- Goal: implement package signing (SigStore) and other state of the art technologies for conda packages
- Apply for funding with e.g. OpenSSF
- Wolf pushing for this to not miss potential funding opportunities
- First step: create subteam by creating an issue in
conda/governance
- (JK) Adding CLA files
- https://github.com/conda/cla/pull/5
- Next steps? How to sign from Nvidia?
- Official source of truth would be really useful.
- (JK) Updating Conda's behavior with channels (like
defaults)- https://github.com/conda/conda/issues/12356
- https://github.com/conda-incubator/setup-miniconda/issues/207
- https://github.com/conda/conda/issues/14178
- JRG:
defaultsthese days is opt-out. Should it be opt-in? IMO yes. - KZ: defaults should require authentication, that would allow tracking.
- (JK) Suppress Jinja errors in skipped conditions
- (JK) Conda GH permissions? Who should have access?
- Are we able to add steering council members here?
- https://github.com/conda/conda/issues/13526
- (JRG) Packaging Windows launchers.
- Experiment at https://github.com/conda-forge/staged-recipes/pull/27419
- Would be nice to have its own repo, similar to what conda/conda-standalone does
- Name ideas?
conda-[python-]launchers?