# 2018-04-17 conda-forge meeting

- Zoom instructions: [+How to connect to zoom](https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/How-to-connect-to-zoom-odl94oveHyiRv6UqTtZE5) 


- Debriefing on the AnacondaCon meeting (for those that weren’t there)
- conda-smithy 3 and conda-build 3 move
    - issue the releases for conda-smithy 3 and conda-forge-pinning
    - review the list from packages that must be rebuilt with the new compilers
        - Look for packages that have toolchain in their deps
        - MichaelS to document and give demo on how to transition old recipes to new style
        - https://github.com/conda-forge/AnacondaRecipesSync
        - CJ reports ~763 packages that use “toolchain” in build deps.  MichaelS to get that list from CJ, and will divide into two sets:
            - recipes that have already been done in AnacondaRecipes and should be PR’ed to Conda-forge
            - recipes that need modification for new compilers and remove python as mechanism for activating VC features
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- How do we want the bot to handle non-release releases (alpha/beta/dev/pre/etc.) https://github.com/regro/cf-scripts/issues/86 and https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-forge-enhancement-proposals/pull/3 and https://github.com/conda-forge/matplotlib-feedstock/pull/24#issuecomment-221496870
    - conda-forge-pre?
- John suggested (on gitter) that we reach out to intel and NVIDIA to get copies of their toolchains and development libraries.
    - Intel
        - Chatting in the background with Intel about using their compilers on the CI services
        - defaults uses:
            -  intel fortran compiler to build SciPy (fortran only; VS used for C/C++)
            - defaults to visual studio compilers for all appropriate versions of python
            - mingw on py27/vs2008 for exceptional cases
            - Julia discussion around MKL, https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/18374
    - Nvidia
        - pygdf - gpu only package that works on the nvidia GPU Jenkins stack
        - John: Get a pygdf-feedstock on conda-forge and ping the Nvidia folks
- Adding people to cf/staged-recipes
    - ~~Marius van Niekerk offered to help review on staged-recipes~~ Invited to staged recipes
    - Igor T. Ghisi (igortg) was also interested in helping
- Adding people to core
    - Invite one or more from bioconda. 
        - Bjorn (Filipe will invite)
        - Marcel Bargull, @mbargull has been a very involved conda contributor and may be interested.
- Optionally building wheels for some packages. ( https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-smithy/issues/608 )
- Making the agenda and notes public again.
    - John will see if we can make dropbox paper readable by the world
    - other options are to just post the notes somewhere public after the meeting
- Governance, CoD, and NumFOCUS affiliation.
    - numfocus affiliation: https://github.com/numfocus/projects-director/blob/master/projects/Matplotlib.md
- conda-forge blog
- Video conferencing solution?
https://docs.google.com/document/d/10dxX0Zse0Rx1HqsxC73Wfsghmy5m8PP8cHuBIOhWKpc/edit


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