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2020-12-16 conda-forge core meeting

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Attendees​

Agenda​

Standing items​

  • intros for new folks on the call

    • Matti - numpy core dev + pypi core dev

  • (CJ) budget

    • current approvals?
    • Whenever updated numbers land, please screenshare and show the budget.
      • Link is in Keybase (numfocus_spreadsheets.txt)
    • (CJ) We're all up to date and Oct P&L is zero

  • open votes

  • (MRB/ED/SC) Roadmap / Funding

    • Kicked out to separate meeting

From previous meeting(s)​

Your new() agenda items​

  • (CJ) Pangeo-forge usage of the conda-forge logo

  • (MRB) Legal advice for third-party artifacts and uploads

    • We have an offer from numfocus to get legal advice on third-party artifact hosting and uploads.
    • What are the issues we'd like to ask?
      • What terms of service do we need to have in place in order to process (download, validate, copy them), upload to third-parties (github, anaconda), and possibly serve artifacts (quetz)?
      • How do we ensure our users have properly agreed to those terms of service?
        • Does this encompass the cuda-toolkit issue?
      • What do we do about DMCA take-downs and the like for servers we control?
    • covers built sources and built artifacts
    • who takes responsibility for (source) license violations?
    • who is liable if someone uses our infrastructure to upload illegal content to anaconda.org?
      • e.g. intellectual property
      • or even really bad stuff that have nothing to do with software.
    • what changes if we operate a conda-forge Quetz server?
    • what about feedstock maintainer liability? What about with auto-merge?
    • what contracts, if any, must be in place with service providers (e.g., GitHub, Anaconda)?
    • google analytics and GDPR. -> chris to ask Phil
    • Todo
      • Chris ask Phil on google analytics - removed anyways
      • Matt to respond to numfocus

  • (FF) Announcement: Small Grant Developed for conda messaging got funded by NumFOCUS

  • (IF) PyPy3.7 migration

    • discuss specifics of migration implemetation (adding pypy3.7 or pypy3.6+pypy3.7) in future bot meeting/bot issues

  • (IF) Build and upload msys2 packages

  • (IF) End boost migration?

    • send a PR

  • (IF) Need linux-64 machine with docker support to build pytorch packages

    • Sylvain: we can create one on OVH I think.

  • (WV) (Will do this via blog post and next meeting) Quick Update on the current state of Quetz / beta.mamba.pm

  • (MB) Migrate to numpy=1.17.*,>=1.17.5

  • (MB) CentOS 7 update: Will open a draft announcement PR, maybe not moving as fast because of earlier COS8 EOL

    • pull the switch sometime in Q1 next year
    • MRB: make an announcement
    • MRB: bump bioconda and gitter

  • (ED) (low importance, should be last if we have time) Thoughts around CFEPs? We have 7 open PRs, all are stalled.

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​

  • 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

  • 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.

  • cfep-10 Feedstock statuses, unmaintained

    • INACTIVE - Merge in with some inactive-esque status?
    • Needs another review. Has unaddressed updates from pkgw as of Jan 11, 2020

  • 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?

  • 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).

  • cfep-19 Pinning epochs

    • Stalled since July

  • cfep-20 Package split

    • No updates for ~1 month

Discussion​

Check in on previous action items​

Copy previous action items from last meeting agenda.

This meeting​

2020-11-24

Last meeting​

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)
  • (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.

2 meetings ago​

2020-11-11

  • TODO: Think about bringing in JOSS to provide context around how we might best write papers

Move to Issue Tracker​

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

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

  • Shout-out on twitter at some point. "Thanks forOVHCloud for providing a VM", etc. (maybe after we ship qt on windows with it?)

  • 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

  • John K. will update the cuda toolkit feedstock on the git repo to note the NVBug link to the internal NVIDIA issue tracker

  • Jonathan will update docs to note that some non-exhaustive list of packages (like cuda-toolkit, MKL, etc.)

  • Jonathan will review this PR

  • (Kale) schedule conda working group

  • cfep-10 next steps: CJ to call a vote for feedback

  • cfep-06 next steps: Ask staged recipes team to champion this CFEP and move it forward

  • jakirkham & CJ-wright to sync on adding CUDA to the migration bot

  • (Eric) Scheduling Anaconda <-> conda-forge sync on anaconda.org requirements gathering

    • Will try and get this scheduled in the next month.

  • (Anthony) Reach out to NumFocus to figure out legal ramifications of not including licenses in files.

  • (Eric) check internally for funding levels for hotels & flying folks from the community in?

  • (Eric) Figure out finances of conda-forge to support themselves?

  • (jjhelmus) Open up CFEP for which python's we're going to support

  • (jakirkham) write a blog post on CUDA stuff we discussed today

  • (jakirkham) update docs on how to add CUDA support to feedstocks

  • (jakirkham) will open an issue on conda-smithy to investigate Drone issues. (ping the aarch team)

  • (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"

  • (ED) document strategies for reproducible environments using conda-forge

  • (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