id,node_id,number,title,user,state,locked,assignee,milestone,comments,created_at,updated_at,closed_at,author_association,active_lock_reason,draft,pull_request,body,reactions,performed_via_github_app,state_reason,repo,type 467735590,MDU6SXNzdWU0Njc3MzU1OTA=,3107,The name of the conda environment in the contributing guide is generic,17169544,closed,0,,,3,2019-07-13T15:47:03Z,2019-07-13T17:11:51Z,2019-07-13T17:11:51Z,CONTRIBUTOR,,,,"In the [contributing guide](http://xarray.pydata.org/en/stable/contributing.html#creating-a-python-environment), you are instructed to make an environment `test_env`: ``` # Create and activate the build environment conda env create -f ci/requirements/py36.yml conda activate test_env # or with older versions of Anaconda: source activate test_env # Build and install xarray pip install -e . ``` I think having the name be `xarray_test_env` would be clearer for people new to working with conda environments and using multiple projects.","{""url"": ""https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/3107/reactions"", ""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,completed,13221727,issue