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2020-07-15 conda-forge core meeting

Attendees​

Agenda​

Standing items​

Stuff from last week that we didn't get to​

  • (ED) Did we need to do anything as a result of this discussion from last week?

  • (ED) Did we need to do anything as a result of this discussion from last week?

    • Discussion of "hard to build packages"
      • rstudio (redist may be somewhat sketchy?)
      • tensorflow
      • qt
      • scipy on Windows
      • Should we publish a list and ask for help on those?

  • (UK) Make a NEWS about CFEP-18, add to docs

  • (UK) "GPL-free" variants

    • Some packages like Python, sqlite have a dependency on libreadline which is GPL licensed. There might be arguments that this doesn't trickle up the stack but Corporate Compliance/IT have a different stance on that.
    • Similar issues with other packages where the GPL-dependency is quite often an optional one.
    • We probably want to have that functionality enabled by default but provide an alternative variant without GPL dependencies.

  • How to communicate breaking changes to users?

    1. Make a list of packages that are fundamental to the ecosystem, like too big to fail
    2. What kinds of communication do we need for different kinds of changes?
      • communicate breaking changes at the individual repo level
      • communicate CFEP changes
      • communicate known breaking changes to large parts of the ecosystem
      • (discussion) everyone that lives on conda-forge is basically living on master. Could add epoch labels? Snapshot repodata.json labels. @Isuru / @kirkham move to github issue?

  • (CL) msys2 packages

    • Anaconda deciding on update plans for "defaults" channel
    • No immediate action needed at this time

Your new agenda items​

Active votes​

Subteam updates​

Bot​

ARM​

POWER​

CUDA​

Docs​

staged-recipes​

website​

security+systems​

  • still need to finish CFEP-13 (can move ahead now that latest smithy is out)

CI infrastructure​

Compiler upgrade​

CFEP updates​

Open PRs​

  • cfep-04 X11 and CDT policy

    • INACTIVE - Merge in with some inactive-esque status?
    • Needs new champion. Thanks for your work on this pkgw! Has unaddressed comments from pkgw as from Jan 10, 2020

  • cfep-06 Staged-recipes review lifecycle

    • INACTIVE - Merge in with some inactive-esque status?
    • Lingering comment from @saraedum. @jakirkham, can you reply? Has unadressed comment from @saraedum from Jan 8, 2020
    • (MRB) The stalebot has solved the worst of the issues here. I think we could defer this one permanently.

  • cfep-10 Feedstock statuses, unmaintained

    • INACTIVE - Merge in with some inactive-esque status?
    • Needs another review. Has unaddressed updates from pkgw as of Jan 11, 2020

  • cfep-12 Removing packages that violate the terms of the source package

    • Stalled since May 26, 2020
    • Active debate about moving to "broken" vs deleting from conda-forge channel
    • Active vote, ends on 2020-03-11
    • What were the results of the vote?
    • Did we hear back from NumFOCUS?

  • cfep-17 Handling pin backports and dependency rebuilds

    • Stalled debate about implementation details between Isuru, CJ and Matt

Discussion​

Check in on previous action items​

Copy previous action items from last meeting agenda.

This meeting​

  • Figure out how to communicate breaking changes to users. Likely should open up an issue immediately for futher discussion. Ping @kkraus, plus capture notes from further up in these meeting notes
  • (Eric) TODO: Make strict an option in conda_forge.yaml and turn it on by default. Open issue in conda-smithy
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Last meeting​

2 meetings ago​

  • Eric to add a new page to our docs around how to engage with conda-forge and affiliated in a commercial relationship.
  • Eric will get the NVBug link from Keith and archive it in the conda-forge google drive.
  • John K. will update the cuda toolkit feedstock on the git repo to note the NVBug link to the internal NVIDIA issue tracker
  • Jonathan will update docs to note that some non-exhaustive list of packages (like cuda-toolkit, MKL, etc.)
  • Jonathan will review this PR

3 meetings ago​

Move to Issue Tracker​

  • (Kale) schedule conda working group
  • cfep-10 next steps: CJ to call a vote for feedback
  • cfep-06 next steps: Ask staged recipes team to champion this CFEP and move it forward
  • jakirkham & CJ-wright to sync on adding CUDA to the migration bot
  • (Eric) Scheduling Anaconda <-> conda-forge sync on anaconda.org requirements gathering
    • Will try and get this scheduled in the next month.
  • (Anthony) Reach out to NumFocus to figure out legal ramifications of not including licenses in files.
  • (Eric) check internally for funding levels for hotels & flying folks from the community in?
  • (Eric) Figure out finances of conda-forge to support themselves?
  • (jjhelmus) Open up CFEP for which python's we're going to support
  • (jakirkham) write a blog post on CUDA stuff we discussed today
  • (jakirkham) update docs on how to add CUDA support to feedstocks
  • (jakirkham) will open an issue on conda-smithy to investigate Drone issues. (ping the aarch team)
  • (ED) Who we are page? Some combination of a FAQ and a who is everyone. FAQ things like:
    • who's the POC for CF <> Anaconda, CF <> NumFocus, CF <> Azure
    • who's the POC for the various subteams?
    • Informal information: roles, day jobs, bios, the whole nine yards, why you're here, etc.
    • Public or internal? I don't really care either way. Anyone feel strongly one way or the other?
    • opt-in to public bios
    • software carpentry has a large number of instructors and has https://carpentries.org/instructors
    • some concern about "yet another place to keep stuff up to date"
  • (CJ) Form finance subteam
  • (ED) document strategies for reproducible environments using conda-forge
  • (UK) Static libraries stuff
    • Add linting hints to builds to find them
    • Recommend how to package them -> CFEP-18
    • We should write docs saying we don't provide support and this is a bad idea. -> CFEP-18