Quick status update: we sorted out our migration of the "staging" channel from anaconda.org -> packages.qiime.org - yay! (preview: https://packages.qiime2.org/qiime2/staging/2020.11/)
Unfortunately, along the way we discovered some packaging issues that crept into our development cycle a few weeks back, basically there are some issues with how q2-demux and q2-diversity packages were built:
The .dirty business on the version identifiers for demux and diversity indicate that somehow during the package building step of those plugins, some of the plugin's source code was modified in some way. As best I can tell, this is only impacting those two plugins, and only on darwin hosts.
I haven't yet started digging into this problem, but it is safe to say it is wholly unrelated to the anaconda.org issues that I reported above.
Anyway, the current plan is to re-enter the 2020.11 development cycle: I just started the process of updating all the the QIIME 2 packages to 2020.11.1.dev0 (note the .1.dev0, as opposed to .0.dev0), that way we have a clean-slate for this release, and can start debugging these issues.
Sorry about the hold up! More soon, after we get a chance to dig into these .dirty oddities.
