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2020-10-07 conda-forge core meeting

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Attendees​

Agenda​

Standing items​

  • intros for new folks on the call

    • (AS) Stephanie and Paul!
      • Rely pretty heavily on conda and pull from conda-forge. Looking to participate in that. Looking to make sure packages are secure and traceable

  • (CJ) budget

    • current approvals?
    • First meeting of the month, screenshare and show the budget?
      • Link is in Keybase (numfocus_spreadsheets.txt)
      • reimbursement request for Anthony isn't showing up yet.
      • (AS) - I have resubmitted to rocket.

From previous meeting(s)​

  • (CJ) libcfgraph import tables
    • example: https://github.com/regro/libcfgraph/blob/master/import_maps/ag.json
    • only looks at .py files so probably does not cover compiled extensions
    • next move is to integrate with depfinder
    • still thinking about how to turn this info into a version requirement
    • Should we turn this into a service? Anyone interested, feel free to open up an issue.
      • Would OVH be interested in hosting this?

Your new agenda items​

  • (FF) Python 3.9 update?
    • wait for Ray to weigh in on something
  • (MRB/IF/ER/CL) osx-arm64
    • code signing on osx-arm
      • status of conda PR
      • Eli reports that the conda PR works great
  • (Wolf) can I use our arm server for robostack?
  • (Wolf) upload from robostack pipelines to conda-forge?
    • need to add a policy to staged-recipes where nothing can be added with a "ros-" prefix without pinging wolf.
    • making smithy smarter about this stuff would help a lot
  • (IF) automatically generate sysconfigdata files for python
  • (MRB) migtoberfest
    • we have three migrations queued up or about to be
      • cuda 11: ~20 feedstocks
      • gfortran 9.3.0: ~320 feedstocks
      • python 3.9: ~thousands of feedstocks
    • should we launch them as they are ready, or should we hold back on one or two?
      • all of them!
    • need to figure gfortran tail char thing
  • (Scopz) Can we make a cudatoolkit package or not?
    • I seem to recall that we can, but Isuru seems to think we need something more in writing
      • (KK) nvbugs/3052604: Internal NVIDIA tracking system and ticket number that gives explicit permission to conda-forge for a cudatoolkit conda package for the redistributable pieces per the EULA.
    • This is related to a lack of cudatoolkit v10.1.243 for linux-ppc64le, which is the Summit arch
  • (KK) CUDA compatibility changes in 11.x+
    • major versions will maintain SONAMES

Pushed to next meeting​

  • (MvN) Faster provisioning of base build env using conda-lock and micromamba
  • (PI) aka - tiny shell subcommand switcher: https://sr.ht/~pi/aka/

Active votes​

Subteam updates​

Bot​

  • see above

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).

Discussion​

Check in on previous action items​

Copy previous action items from last meeting agenda.

This meeting​

2020-10-07

  • Make sure to add the NVBug info to the cudatoolkit package that conda-forge makes (if we make one)

Last meeting​

2020-09-30

2 meetings ago​

2020-09-23

  • (MRB)
    • do libgfortran name change
    • add target platform to hashes
    • do gfortran migration with bot
    • bump pinnings

Move to Issue Tracker​

2020-09-16

  • Get a call set up with Jon Mease about the kaleido staged recipes PR
    • Emailed on 2020-09-16
  • (FF) Open up a PR on the python feedstock for python 3.9 and see what fails

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
  • (MRB) start pushing images to quay (https://github.com/conda-forge/docker-images/pull/152)

OVH

  • (???) build webpage to credit them (and others)

  • If we're adding a logo, will want to make sure that we have permission to use it.

  • 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