SciPy 2026

Come share your ideas for next year's SciPy. Participants will have an opportunity to sign up to be on next year's organizing committee.

Until very recently, producing and using reproducible scientific software environments required advanced knowledge and a strict adherence to best practices (e.g. DOI: 10.25080/majora-212e5952-028). Now, with the advent of modern tooling with lockfile-first workflows (i.e. Pixi and uv), and the emergence of lockfile standards across scientific open source, applications can be made reproducible at the digest level through tooling decisions. As this technology and practices become increasingly common there is an opportunity to define common best practices around lockfile based software development that can further reduce developer overhead and maintenance burden. This Birds of a Feather panel will focus on how experienced developers are leveraging lockfiles across software development, applications, and deployment while providing best practices and practical recommendations, while also highlighting continuing challenges and opportunities for improvement.