VOTE: CEPs that standardize our current specifications

[jaimergp]

Hello @conda/steering-council,

As part of the STA efforts, we've been trying to write down all the specifications that concern our ecosystem. These are not about new features, but simply documenting what otherwise is a de facto specification.

I would like to start a vote on these CEPs soon. To that end, I'm opening a request for comments period for ~two weeks (until 2026-02-15). After that, on Feb 16th, I'll open the vote. Please take this time to review and add comments. Only editorial changes will be accepted after the RFC period has concluded.

The full list of CEPs is:

• CEP 29: MatchSpec minilanguage #82
• CEP 30: Virtual packages #103
• CEP 31: Build provenance metadata #113
• CEP 32: Management and structure of conda environments #124
• CEP 33: Version literals and their ordering #132
• CEP 34: Contents of conda packages #133
• CEP 35: Distributable package artifacts file formats #134
• CEP 36: Package metadata files served by conda channels #135
• CEP 37: conda-lock.yml lockfiles #138
• CEP 38: Channel-wide metadata files served by conda channels #140

In case it helps, here's a diagram of how they depend on each other:

flowchart TD
82["#82: MatchSpec"]
103["#103: Virtual Packages"]
113["#113: Build provenance"]
124["#124: conda-meta/*.json"]
132["#132: Versioning"]
133["#133: Conda packages content"]
134["#134: .tar.bz2 and .conda"]
135["#135: Repodata"]
138["#138: conda-lock.yml"]
140["#140: Channeldata"]
82 --> 132
82 --> 133
82 --> 135
103 --> 132
113
124 --> 82
124 --> 132
124 --> 133
132
133 --> 82
133 --> 113
133 --> 124
133 --> 132
134 --> 133
135 --> 133
138 --> 82
140 --> 133
click 82 "https://github.com/conda/ceps/pull/82" "MatchSpec"
click 103 "https://github.com/conda/ceps/pull/103" "Virtual Packages"
click 113 "https://github.com/conda/ceps/pull/113" "Build provenance"
click 124 "https://github.com/conda/ceps/pull/124" "conda-meta/*.json"
click 132 "https://github.com/conda/ceps/pull/132" "Versioning"
click 133 "https://github.com/conda/ceps/pull/133" "Conda packages content"
click 134 "https://github.com/conda/ceps/pull/134" ".tar.bz2 and .conda"
click 135 "https://github.com/conda/ceps/pull/135" "Repodata"
click 138 "https://github.com/conda/ceps/pull/138" "conda-lock.yml"
click 140 "https://github.com/conda/ceps/pull/140" "Channeldata"

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[jaimergp]

The RFC period has concluded, the vote will start tomorrow.

[jaimergp]

Dear @conda/steering-council,

A vote for a number of CEPs has started today, and will stay open until 2026-03-02 23:59 Anywhere on Earth. Most of these CEPs depend on each other, as stated in the first message above. Use the links below to cast your vote:

• CEP 29: MatchSpec minilanguage #82 (comment)
• CEP 30: Virtual packages #103 (comment)
• CEP 31: Build provenance metadata #113 (comment)
• CEP 32: Management and structure of conda environments #124 (comment)
• CEP 33: Version literals and their ordering #132 (comment)
• CEP 34: Contents of conda packages #133 (comment)
• CEP 35: Distributable package artifacts file formats #134 (comment)
• CEP 36: Package metadata files served by conda channels #135 (comment)
• CEP 37: conda-lock.yml lockfiles #138 (comment)
• CEP 38: Channel-wide metadata files served by conda channels #140 (comment)

[wolfv]

Amazing work @jaimergp 🚀

[jjerphan]

Thank you for putting this all together, @jaimergp! 🤝

[jaimergp]

@conda/steering-council, gentle reminder for the votes above 🙏

[jaimergp]

@conda/steering-council one more reminder, thank you 🙏

[jaimergp]

@conda/steering-council, this is the final reminder. Vote will end today AoE. Thank you!

[jaimergp]

@conda/steering-council, the vote period has ended. These are the results:

CEP	Votes	Yes	No	Abstain	Passed?	Minted as
#82: MatchSpec	13	13	0	0	✅	29
#103: Virtual packages	14	14	0	0	✅	30
#113: Build provenance	11	11	0	0	✅	31
#124: Structure of conda envs	11	11	0	0	✅	32
#132: Versions	11	11	0	0	✅	33
#133: Contents of packages	11	11	0	0	✅	34
#134: Package file formats	11	11	0	0	✅	35
#135: Repodata	12	12	0	0	✅	36
#138: conda-lock.yml	13	12	0	1	✅	37
#140: Channeldata	12	12	0	0	✅	38

I'll update the PRs to mint their CEP numbers and update the crosslinks accordingly. Note that we didn't need to invoke timeout rules because the turnout was quite incredible. Thank you everyone for your time and patience!

[wolfv]

Amazing work @jaimergp :)

[jaimergp]

As of 3538531, all CEPs are now updated and merged!