2026-08-19 Conda Ecosystem Meeting

Zoom link · What time is the meeting in my time zone: 5pm, 2pm

Various parts of the conda ecosystem gather on a regular basis. This meeting brings together all of these sub-communities for a community wide call.

Attendees

1. TH: Travis Hathaway (@travishathaway), Anaconda
2. SM: Schuyler Martin (@schuylermartin45), Anaconda
3. WV: Biker Wolf 🚲 (@wolfv), Prefix.dev
4. DY: Dan Yeaw (@danyeaw), Anaconda
5. JL: Jannis Leidel (@jezdez)
6. CHL: Cheng H. Lee (@chenghlee), Anaconda, C/SC, CF/C
7. JK: John Kirkham (@jakirkham), NVIDIA, C/SC, CF/CFC
8. MRB: Matthew R. Becker, CF/C
9. LH: Ludovic Henry (@luhenry)

Introductions

• LH: Member of RISE (https://riseproject.dev; Linux Foundation project), focused on enabling Software Ecosystem on RISC-V; Working on linux-riscv64 migration

Announcements

• (TH) Requesting to join build-tools team (https://github.com/conda/governance/issues/429)
  • Emeritus rejoin possible? (follow up with this later)
  • Let's check out the build-tools team charter
  • Ongoing PR is going to list @travishathaway as emeritus conda/governance team YAMLs (the yamls and GitHub's team are currently out of sync)
  • JL: I’ve put in some effort into Jaime’s PR a while ago, so I think we should just get this merged if it helps to clarify the gaps in the governance process
• Steering: Repodata v3 vote, last day: https://github.com/conda/ceps/pull/146
• Steering: PURLs CEP RFC period ending: https://github.com/conda/ceps/pull/159
• Core: Two membership requests for conda-forge core and staged-recipes, respectively. Please check Helios.

New agenda items

• JL: Started working on conda-sigstore plugin

  • https://github.com/jezdez/conda-sigstore
  • Depending on https://github.com/conda/conda/pull/16518 draft
  • Discussion on exposing more information useful for this via prefix.dev: https://github.com/prefix-dev/prefix-dev/issues/94
  • Sigstore-related packages available on conda-forge!

• JFrog Artifactory starting gradual roll process to support for conda repodata shards

  • Do clients have fallbacks for HTTP 401 and 404 errors? (Yes)

• WV: RISC V Migration

• WV: Starting to roll out organizations on prefix

  • You might see more URLs like prefix.dev/wolfv/foobar, and we might introduce @wolfv/foobar syntax

• WV: pixi script is a thing now

• WV: rattler-build script env vars extraction - yes or no?

  • https://github.com/prefix-dev/rattler-build/pull/2748

• WV: sigstore CEP kinda ready.

  • CEP: https://github.com/conda/ceps/pull/142
  • Security review being completed: https://github.com/sigstore/sigstore-rust

• WV: channel notices being rolled out as well

• WV: conda-forge swag

  • https://github.com/conda-forge/governance/issues/21
  • Perhaps we can use the notices to help spread the word to get more maintainers for conda-forge!