2019-02-20 conda-forge meeting

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New items

• Elections
  • Staged
    • mjscosta
      • "I can review C++ and Python, and Python + extensions recipes."
• Discuss https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-forge.github.io/issues/712
  • Two kinds of migration
    • No breakage (everything is pinned properly so everything can live side by side)
    • Breakage (current pins are incorrect, need second channel or hotfix repodata)
• Plans for AnacondaCon
• Migrations
  • gfortran
    • Need to build a migrator for new osx gfortran
  • Power and Arm
    • Ongoing https://conda-forge.org/status/
    • Fixed some bugs, graph is fuller now
  • Openssl
    • https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-forge-pinning-feedstock/pull/191
    • https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-forge.github.io/issues/701
    • https://github.com/regro/cf-scripts/issues/409
    • https://www.openssl.org/blog/blog/2018/11/28/version/
    • Channel priority doesn’t stop default’s python being installed with the newest openssl
    • rebuild against openssl as soon as possible
      • Anaconda to take this on for their next sprint (starting Monday, Feb 11).
    • Pending new pinning
  • Readline
    • ABI change
    • Needs migrator
• Meta Channel
  • https://github.com/regro/conda-metachannel
    • Blocking parts
    • Still need a domain / subdomain so that we can add some TLS
  • probably not ready yet for use internally in
  • Want benchmarks
• Conda-forge on Open Source Directions
• Azure status
  • Linux and OSX ready to go
  • Need to fix windows (vc9 and cmake)
  • Credentials issues (need pipelines account to access Azure, will move to GH auth soon)
  • Postpone to next meeting
• ESIP update
  • choose a date and place for the sprint
  • decide how much we will use for CIs vs Sprint/Travel (1000USD/4000USD?)
• Nvidia relationship
  • Anaconda met with Rapids (NVIDIA) team
  • Reach out to NVIDIA to attend meetings
  • Add NVIDIA person to core?
  • Add to governance discussing donations and governance.
  • More followup with NVIDIA needed
  • Building GPU packages using conda-forge packages, upload to their own channel after building with cudatoolkit on their own Jenkins system.
  • Maybe form a working group?
• Perl ecosystem?
  • noarch
  • base stack
  • Many perl packages on bioconda (600+)
  • Perl ABI?
    • https://abi-laboratory.pro/?view=timeline&l=perl
  • move forward with plan to incorporate perl into CF