2021-09-01 Conda Community Meeting

Attendees

Name	Initials	Affiliation	GH Username
Cheng H. Lee	CHL	Anaconda	chenghlee
Filipe Fernandes	FF	conda-forge	ocefpaf
Jannis Leidel	JL	Anaconda	jezdez
Jaime Rodríguez-G.	JRG	Quansight	jaimergp

Sebastien Awwad	SA	Anaconda	awwad

Matthew R Becker	MRB	conda-forge	beckermr
Marcel Bargull	MB	Bioconda/cf	mbargull

conda-forge/mamba project has been funded by CZI; top items:
- improve solver error/debug messages
- mirror selection
- use zchunk to download only the latest chunks of repodata.json
  - used by https://github.com/rpm-software-management/librepo
- help conda-forge with package signatures
PackagingCon CFP extended till Friday! https://pretalx.com/packagingcon-2021/cfp

[FF/CHL] Switching to Zoom (room provided NumFOCUS for conda-forge)
- Consensus: we should switch to Zoom
- Will seek approval at next week's conda-forge core meeting
[CHL] Support for custom HTTP headers in conda
- https://github.com/conda/conda/pull/10257
- Driving use case is to support more standard HTTP auth mechanisms (basic, OAUTH2, etc.); simplify handling providers
- (SA) current token mechanism could leak into logs (since they're part of the URLs)
- (FP) could expand this to do more generic, pluggable mechanisms for auth
[JL] Opened ticket about who wants to become emeritus-core
- https://github.com/conda-incubator/governance/issues/31
- (MRB) made a list and a message: https://hackmd.io/RUt1OEyESBmUf9A7B7s_NQ
[JL] New "infra" repo in Conda org for community infrastructure related issues
- https://github.com/conda/infra
- synced for some labels automatically to Anaconda Jira
- use of discussion preferred before opening issues: https://github.com/conda/infra/discussions