# 2019-03-06 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**

- Elections
    - Staged
        - mjscosta
            - “I can review C++ and Python, and Python + extensions recipes.”
        - xhochy
        - let’s put an election for those two.
- Blis vendor
    - https://github.com/orgs/conda-forge/teams/core/discussions/2
    - make the package a variant
- CFEP-9
    - https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-forge-enhancement-proposals/pull/13
    - Ongoing discussion, please visit the issue and comment!
- Plans for AnacondaCon
    - arrive before the conference if possible, 2nd, 3rd as a tentative days for our meeting.
- Migrations
    - gfortran
        - Need to build a migrator for new osx gfortran
        - https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-forge-pinning-feedstock/pull/174 maybe?
    - Power and Arm
        - Ongoing https://conda-forge.org/status/
        - Fixed some bugs, graph is fuller now
    - Openssl
        - In progress https://conda-forge.org/status/
        - 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
        - May want to wait
    - libnetcdf
        - @isuru suggested repo patch from X.X to X.X.X
            - @Filipe F does not like the repo patch idea. @Mike S partially joked that repo patches are addictive :)
        - Is the other option to migrate the pinnings?
    - @Christopher W : Add link to migration docs for conda-forge.github.io
- Meta Channel
    - https://metachannel.conda-forge.org/ ← This URL renders markdown as raw text btw
    - https://github.com/regro/conda-metachannel
    - probably not ready yet for use internally in 
    - Want benchmarks
- ESIP update
    - choose a date and place for the sprint
    - decide how much we will use for CIs vs Sprint/Travel (1000USD/4000USD?)
        - @Filipe F will fill the MOU form and ask about AirBnB for AnacondaCon
    - Pay for airbnb for AnacondaCon
    - Travel costs for Scipy
    - Establish Effort reporting things (labels and such)
- Conda-Forge miniconda
    - Sophia did some benchmarks and showed that using a conda-pack’d archive reduced CI setup time down to about 2 seconds instead of the 40 seconds it takes to install miniconda and switch out all the packages for the conda-forge ones: https://gitter.im/conda-forge/conda-forge.github.io?at=5c79a37dd2d62067b72a849d
    - Mike’s point was who owns the support for a conda-forge miniconda distro? https://gitter.im/conda-forge/conda-forge.github.io?at=5c7992a9e1446a6ebe6871d2
- 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
- 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
- Conda-forge on Open Source Directions