March 2026 monthly summary for conda-forge/staged-recipes focusing on delivering new conda recipes to improve installation and dependency management for quantum libraries, broad Python compatibility, and code quality contributions. Key outcomes include two new recipes (samplomatic and ibm-quantum-schemas) enabling downstream dependency resolution for qiskit-ibm-runtime; expanded Python version support; collaboration improvements via code reviews. No major bug fixes reported in this period. The work reduces install friction and enables smoother downstream integration for quantum tooling.

Monthly summary for 2025-12 focusing on business value and technical achievements in conda-forge/admin-requests. Key deprecation and archival work completed to simplify the Qiskit ecosystem and guide users to modern packages. Key features delivered: - Archived legacy Qiskit components to streamline maintenance: qiskit-metal renamed and archived as quantum-metal, and qiskit-terra archived to discontinue outdated lineage. This provides a clear migration path for users toward quantum-metal and the main qiskit package. - Documented migration path and related packaging changes to minimize user disruption and support successful upgrades. Major bugs fixed: - No user-facing bugs fixed this month. The focus was on deprecation, archival, and migration readiness to reduce future maintenance risk and user confusion. Overall impact and accomplishments: - Reduced maintenance burden by consolidating legacy components into archival packages, aligning with modern Qiskit distribution, and enabling smoother user transitions. - Improved ecosystem clarity and governance by defining clear upgrade paths and ensuring deprecated components are properly archived. - Strengthened long-term stability for downstream users and feedstocks by removing unsupported versions and clarifying supported upgrade routes. Technologies/skills demonstrated: - Git-based version control and commit discipline with explicit archival messages (commits 67c873647e589fa5da28be65beeb48d886b73112 and e44dd51b82e0f9a3f0e66ab9042d08f4fd579c37). - Packaging and feedstock coordination within conda-forge, including migration considerations for dependent workflows. - Strategic deprecation planning, clear user communication, and cross-package alignment (qiskit-metal → quantum-metal) and alignment with qiskit packaging strategy.