2023-01-18 Conda Community Meeting

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Attendees

Name	Initials	Affiliation	GH Username
Ken Odegard	KO	Anaconda	kenodegard
Dave Clements	DPC	Anaconda	tnabtaf
Jaime Rodríguez-Guerra	JRG	Quansight/cf	jaimergp
Marius van Niekerk	MvN	VoltronData/cf	mariusvniekerk
Eric Dill	EDD	conda-forge	ericdill
Daniel Holth	DH	Anaconda	dholth
Filipe Fernandes	FF	conda-forge	ocefpaf
Bianca Henderson	BH	Anaconda	beeankha
John Kirkham	JK	NVIDIA/cf	jakirkham
Katherine Kinnaman	KK	Anaconda	kathatherine

14 people total

Introductions

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Announcements

• (KO) Conda 23.1.0 release is underway
  • https://github.com/conda/conda/issues/12224
  • https://matrix.to/#/#conda-release:matrix.org
• (DPC) Announce mailing list, launched.
  • conda and conda-forge google groups have been closed
• (JRG) constructor 4.3.x coming up!
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New Agenda Items

• (DPC) Slack to Matrix migration is happening
  • Will be done by end of January.
  • Tracking Spreadsheet (needs more color ;-)
  • One page guide
• (DPC) Slack -> Matrix Migration specifics (if agenda is relatively empty)
  • conda/conda
    • Who runs the conda/conda gitter group?
    • Can we change to conda/conda-help? Maybe.
    • Any maintainer in GitHub
  • conda/conda-build & constructr
    • Constructor and conda-lock
  • Slack/CEPS & Slack/Specs
    • Merge with Governance?
    • CEPS could be split into Governance and Dev.
      • Call feels pretty strongly about this.
      • Drop Ceps and Specs.
  • Should we continue auto feeds from GitHub into channels?
    • Lean away from Github notices.
  • Solver
    • merge with conda-developer
  • Slack shutdown
    • All channels will be notified this week
    • Should we try to get an archive of past slack
      • Leaning away from this.
      • May not ever get used.
      • So, do, if it's easy.
      • Could start a free 30 day trial to do this.
      • Jaime will look into this.
      • Put in a place that is accessible to leadership.
        • NumFOCUS's conda google drive.
        • Github private repo
• (MvN) Start graduation process for conda-lock
  • It's time. Stable and widely used.
  • Follow/start this process: https://github.com/conda/conda-libmamba-solver/issues/56
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What is this meeting for?

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.