# 2019-01-09 conda-forge meeting
**Pinned Items**

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

- Journal article update
    - https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-forge-paper
    - A draft of a skeleton is in PR, comments, edits, and more are encouraged! https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-forge-paper/pulls
    - Who should be authors on the paper?  
    - xref bioconda nature methods paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41592-018-0046-7
- Elections
    - Sylvain
        - Pending Mike for vote tallies
            - Pole is complete, Mike will post results soon
    - Matthew Becker
        - done (or at least on https://github.com/orgs/conda-forge/teams/staged-recipes/members – nothing else to do, right? we should document that)
- Meta Channel
    - https://github.com/regro/conda-metachannel
- New Arches
    - aarch64 and ppc building
        - Shippable
        - Qemu on CI
- When to add gcc7 to main or flip the channels?
        - Proposal: Jan 15th
- Conda-forge on Open Source Directions

**Previous items**

- CloudFlare Migration
    - Sophia will add a diagram of the system
    - To go live tomorrow, Wed Nov 28, morning (~9 AM central).  Anaconda will monitor it actively.
    - MichaelS/Sophia will announce this start time on gitter along with the diagram and a rehash of the reasoning and changes proposed.
- NumFOCUS Small Grant Proposal accept and we just got 3000USD for the "conda-forge sprint at SciPy 2019”
- GSoC 2019
    - https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline
- Compiler rebuild status
    - python done for both compiler stacks
    - Qt: try to build on Azure?
- (DISCUSSED/Postponed) 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 4.6 with strict channel priority, and then add main label to those builds
- (DISCUSSED/Postponed)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?