2021-10-06 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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(FF) 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
- none
From previous meeting(s)
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(IF) Python 3.10
- conda issue - https://github.com/conda/conda/issues/10969
- How to allow older conda users to fail?
- Let them find out
- Add a
__conda
virtual package and letpython=3.10
package depend on__conda>=4.10.3
- symbolic link
lib/python3.1
->lib/python3.10
- TODO New python build that does the symlink (option #3 above)
- Py3.10-related fixes will be rolled into next conda minor release
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(CJ via MRB) more reproducible builds?
- CJ: thinks its pretty close
- motivated by this blog post: https://hpc.guix.info/blog/2021/09/whats-in-a-package/
- embed azure build log into the package
- embed which build system
- git hash of feedstock?
- turn off force push to feedstocks
- need a way to force the build/host/test envs to be the same
- (IF): see https://github.com/conda/conda-build/issues/2140
- Possible TODOs
- store source for builds somewhere
- store logs for builds somewhere, possibly keyed on package name?
- And parts of the info.json -- sometimes we have the same filename for different builds
- store conda-locks of the build/host/test environments
- Notes
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transparency vs repeatability vs reproducibility
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Provenance != reproducibility
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(Eric) transparency+repeatability > reproducibility
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Your new() agenda items
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(WV) motivated by conversations on gitter: use more mamba in conda-forge
- add
mamba install ...
to feedstock readme - allow uploads from
mambabuild
- road to boa recipes?
- TODO
- PR to conda-smithy to add a couple of flags to allow users to enable mamba debug and mamba build&upload
- add
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(CB) NumFocus amendment
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(IF) aarch64 builds
- cloud.drone.io is slow
- We have $3000 credits from Oracle for a year
- Enough for 8 runners with 4 vCPUs and 24 GB for a year
- options
- host our own drone server/runners
- host our own azure agents
- cross compile
- test using qemu
- pypy builds
- emulate
Pushed to next meeting
Active votes
CFEPs
- 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
TODOs
2021-09-22
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(MRB) update on travis stuff
- TODO: Write blog post for transparency reasons. Need a champion for this one (Matt can at end of october)
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(MRB) master to main move (https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-forge.github.io/issues/1162)
- everything done except feedstocks, releases, conda-smithy, and our github actions
- releases is broken, opened an issue with github
- some options for feedstocks
- make sure to change the upload on branch key
- (MRB) make an announcement on how to update local clones (moved to the issue above)
- (MRB) make sure to update upload_on_branch (moved to the issue above)
- everything done except feedstocks, releases, conda-smithy, and our github actions
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