2018-04-03 conda-forge meeting

New items

• Community management
  • Community policy
    • Governance
    • Code of Conduct: https://docs.google.com/document/d/10dxX0Zse0Rx1HqsxC73Wfsghmy5m8PP8cHuBIOhWKpc/edit
  • Contributing guidelines
  • Org policy
  • Research into wikipedia’s governance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSQJYEVcMWM&index=27&list=PLwfR9EQmUekU3AprkcCVcoRKXXVIt-5E_
  • What to do with hostile maintainers, eg: https://github.com/conda-forge/lmfit-feedstock/pull/13 and https://github.com/conda-forge/asteval-feedstock/pull/6
  • Creating a core mailing list
    • Reach out to phil for email access to the @conda-forge.org

Done

• Adding people to cf/staged-recipes
  • Marius van Niekerk offered to help review on staged-recipes
• Win32 poll results: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1DbPWfHw1AhYWNsfsYzEo1AxZzKOpxoc-b7zaqY_AMls/edit?usp=sharing 91 responses, 5 are using Win32, only 1 is using Win32 exclusively.
  • nsis only works on 32-bit — it is used by constructor on windows so it’s a critical package to keep working
  • Filipe will craft an email to let the community know.
• pypi/anaconda.org/wheel/conda-package
  • Collaboration (or at least communication) with the pypi/warehouse devs
  • Optionally building wheels for some packages. ( https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-smithy/issues/608 )
  • TODO: Chat at anacondacon about this
• How do we want the bot to handle non-release releases (alpha/beta/dev/pre/etc.) https://github.com/regro/cf-scripts/issues/86 and https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-forge-enhancement-proposals/pull/3 and https://github.com/conda-forge/matplotlib-feedstock/pull/24#issuecomment-221496870
  • conda-forge-pre?
  • TODO:
    • We will blacklist all "non-release" releases and not support automated releases from these tags. Do not support rc releases for now.
    • Better maintainer training (branching structure, etc.)
• John suggested (on gitter) that we reach out to intel and NVIDIA to get copies of their toolchains and development libraries.
  • We’ll cross this bridge when we have interest/time
  • GPU discussion - https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-forge.github.io/issues/63
  • pygdf as a test case with NVIDIA folks - https://github.com/gpuopenanalytics/pygdf
    • https://github.com/gpuopenanalytics/pygdf/tree/master/conda-recipes/pygdf
• flit install as build step?
  • TODO: Write some dev documentation about supported modes of install