2021-06-02 conda-forge core meeting
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Attendees
Agenda
Standing items
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intros for new folks on the call 
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(CJ) budget - current approvals?
- Whenever updated numbers land, please screenshare and show the budget.
- Link is in Keybase (numfocus_spreadsheets.txt)
 
 
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open votes 
From previous meeting(s)
-  (DB) Aggregating CRAN recipes into one feedstock/repo
- todo: DB will make an issue summarizing things
 
-  (JK) OSU OpenPOWER Survey
- have until july 31
- should bump this item to next meeting as a reminder
 
- (MRB) msmpi changes
Your new() agenda items
- (CJ) scipy talk?
- (MRB) more intel compiler stuff https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-forge.github.io/issues/1449
- (MB) about to merge https://github.com/conda-forge/perl-feedstock/pull/49 (+ https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-forge-pinning-feedstock/pull/936 when updated)
- (WV) Use xsimd for AVX / AVX512 / Neon detection in conda / mamba?
Pushed to next meeting
Active votes
Subteam updates
Bot
ARM
POWER
CUDA
Docs
staged-recipes
website
security+systems
CI infrastructure
Compiler upgrade
CFEP updates
Open PRs
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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 Solved: Let's defer and keep the "mixed model" we have now.
 
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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. Solved: defer in favor of the stale bot for now.
 
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cfep-15 Feedstock statuses, unmaintained - INACTIVE - Merge in with some inactive-esque status?
- Needs another review. Has unaddressed updates from pkgw as of Jan 11, 2020 Pending: re-pinged pkgw for a second review.
 
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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? they did the legal seminar which is recorded
 
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cfep-17 Handling pin backports and dependency rebuilds - Stalled debate about implementation details between Isuru, CJ and Matt
- UPDATE 2020-07-22: We in principle have agreement to render the extra pinnings needed directly in the feedstock on a temporary basis (i.e., until the migration has ended).
 
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cfep-19 Pinning epochs - Stalled since July
 
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cfep-20 Package split - No updates for ~1 month
 
Discussion
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2020-11-18
-  (IF/MRB/MV) intel oneAPI
- todo
- (Nikolay) licensing for opencl_rt
- (Nikolay) intelmpi ABI compat w/ mpich
- (MRB/IF) figure out how exactly to package C/C++ compilers
- (MRB/IF) think about fortran ABI
- (MRB) make conda-forge compilers room (add people including keith)
 
 
- todo
-  (MB) asking core members to move to "emeritus" status
-  TODO: Eric to set up quarterly check-in for all core members to see if they're interested in remaining "active" or if they want to move to emeritus
- Remove emeritus folks from having access to various credentials (api tokens, twitter password, etc.)? This would require a change to the governance doc.
 
 
-  TODO: Eric to set up quarterly check-in for all core members to see if they're interested in remaining "active" or if they want to move to emeritus
2020-11-11
- TODO: Think about bringing in JOSS to provide context around how we might best write papers
2020-11-03
- TODO: Check on Forrest Watters permissions for core
-  (FF) Outreachy would cost 6500 USD.
- Next steps: write abstract and vote on spending of funds.
 
2020-10-28 2020-10-21
-  (Marius?) Python 2.7 migration
- ( ) [ ] make a hint
- ( ) [ ] make an announcement
- ( ) [ ] make the hint a lint
 
2020-10-07
- Make sure to add the NVBug info to the cudatoolkit package that conda-forge makes (if we make one)
2020-09-09
- (ED) Update governance docs with similar voting model as what got put into conda-tools (+3 with no -1 is a pass)
- (SC) Write jinja template to turn institutional partners yaml into a website https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-forge.github.io/blob/2a2d3caaf7d74eb370ac40c679ba337a73d15c8a/src/inst_partners.yaml
- (SC) Document what needs to be done to create an OVH account and get access
2020-08-26 Docker hub
- (JK) Check in on Azure build workers to see if they have the docker hub limitation.
-  (JK) work with dockerhub to see if we can get OSS status
- Check in again at some point. We haven't heard back as of 2020-09-23
 
OVH
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Shout-out on twitter at some point. "Thanks forOVHCloud for providing a VM", etc. (maybe after we ship qt on windows with it?) 
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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 
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John K. will update the cuda toolkit feedstock on the git repo to note the NVBug link to the internal NVIDIA issue tracker 
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Jonathan will update docs to note that some non-exhaustive list of packages (like cuda-toolkit, MKL, etc.) 
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Jonathan will review this PR 
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(Kale) schedule conda working group 
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cfep-10 next steps: CJ to call a vote for feedback 
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cfep-06 next steps: Ask staged recipes team to champion this CFEP and move it forward 
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jakirkham & CJ-wright to sync on adding CUDA to the migration bot 
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(Eric) Scheduling Anaconda <-> conda-forge sync on anaconda.org requirements gathering - Will try and get this scheduled in the next month.
 
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(Anthony) Reach out to NumFocus to figure out legal ramifications of not including licenses in files. 
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(Eric) check internally for funding levels for hotels & flying folks from the community in? 
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(Eric) Figure out finances of conda-forge to support themselves? 
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(jjhelmus) Open up CFEP for which python's we're going to support 
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(jakirkham) write a blog post on CUDA stuff we discussed today 
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(jakirkham) update docs on how to add CUDA support to feedstocks 
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(jakirkham) will open an issue on conda-smithy to investigate Drone issues. (ping the aarch team) 
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(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"
 
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(ED) document strategies for reproducible environments using conda-forge 
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(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