Core meeting agenda 2020-01-06

[mbargull]

@bioconda/core
Please add/edit agenda items below. When relevant, please create an issue for each topic so off-line discussion can occur there.

• Updates from the previous meeting(s)
  • GitHub Actions
  • Perl migration
  • CZI sponsorship
  • PY 3.8 migration
  • PY 2.7 EOL handling
  • ISMB 2020 Tutorial

[mbargull]

Some points discussed (please feel free to add anything I missed!):

• Community engagement:
  • Plan regular hackathons.
    • E.g., 3-4 times a year.
    • Have certain goals for a hackathon, e.g. "get under X number of issues/PRs".
  • Encourage contributors.
    • Add more incentives for people to merge (bot) PRs.
    • Make (number of) contributions more visible, e.g., on the website.
    • Add some gamification.
      • Top contributors.
      • Number of reviewed/merged PRs.
    • Add a list of requested packages.
  • Attend conferences/hackathons (possibly some of the following).
    • ISMB 2020 (Montréal)
    • ECCB 2020 (Barcelona)
    • GCB 2020 (Frankfurt)
    • BioHackathons (??? - keep an eye out!)
• Python version support:
  • Add Python 3.8.
    • Check how far conda-forge migration has come.
    • Do this whenever seems appropriate.
  • Deprecate Python 2.7.
    • Remove from default build config.
      • (Check for zip_keys in conda-forge-pinning).
    • Still support building for Py2.7 via conda_build_config.yaml.
    • Open issue about the deprecation and how to use conda_build_config.yaml.
    • Compose list of recipes that are Py2.7 only.
    • Do this together with Py3.8 addition.
• Support for "other systems":
  • Determine when/if this is needed.
  • Use sparingly, definitely not by default.
  • Try to reuse conda-forge setup if possible.
  • Option "move to conda-forge".
    • E.g. biopython.
    • Problematic if (current/future) dependencies are on bioconda.
• Next bulk runs:
  • See "Python version support" above.
  • Bioconductor release probably in May.

[mbargull]

Re Py3.8: We might also want to update conda-forge-pinning to get clang 9 at the same time to avoid additional bulk runs.

[mbargull]

Re Py2.7: Issue created at bioconda/bioconda-recipes#19549.