2018-10-30 conda-forge meeting

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New items

• migrate r-base to x.x and noarch: generic, see https://github.com/conda-forge/r-base-feedstock/pull/60
  • Nobody in the meeting really knows anything about this. Follow up with Isuru, Ray, …?

Previous items

• Compiler rebuild status
  • python done for both compiler stacks
  • pending: openblas (numeric stack currently held up)
  • Qt: try to build on Azure?
• New approach to reducing CI load https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-forge.github.io/issues/647
  • Might be possible to not be totally insecure with work. But nobody is volunteering to do that work right now. :)
  • Pushing PR builds to a staging channel might be a nice UX improvement so you can test anyway.
• Copying packages to gcc7 label https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-smithy/issues/892
  • MPI metapackage
  • Just wait for new conda 3.6 with strict channel priority, and then add main label to those builds
• Mergify = auto-merge version bump PRs when CIs pass?
  • https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-forge-maintenance/issues/49
  • Worry about bot not detecting dependency changes
  • Definitely opt-in only at first
  • One possibility: only after an approved review (so you can say "merge assuming CIs pass")
• Add overlinking error flag by default?