diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index f174023..aff1009 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 *.DS_Store
 *.ipynb_checkpoints
 *.pyc
-build/*
+build/
 docs/_build/
 docs/modules/
 .cache/*
@@ -26,3 +26,4 @@ conda/build_main/*
 environment.yml
 *.pickle
 *.joblib
+conda_noarch
diff --git a/conda/meta.yaml b/conda/meta.yaml
index c8c164c..6bb0f8b 100644
--- a/conda/meta.yaml
+++ b/conda/meta.yaml
@@ -11,16 +11,12 @@ source:
 
 build:
     script: pip install . -vv --no-deps
-    # abandoned conda build GIT_BUILD_STRING env variable
-    string: py{{environ.get("CONDA_PY", "XX")}}{{environ.get("GIT_ABBREV_COMMIT", "no_git_abbrev_commit") }}_{{ environ.get("PKG_BUILDNUM", "no_pkg_buildnum") }}
+    string: py{{environ.get("CONDA_PY", "XX")}}{{environ.get("GIT_DESCRIBE_HASH", "no_git_abbrev_commit") }}_{{ environ.get("PKG_BUILDNUM", "no_pkg_buildnum") }}
 
 requirements:
 
   host:
     - python {{ python }}
-    # - r-base
-    # - r-lmerTest
-    # - r-base
     - pip
     - numpy >=1.20
 
@@ -37,9 +33,6 @@ requirements:
     - joblib
     - scipy
     - scikit-learn
-    # {% for req in data.get('install_requires', []) %}
-    # - {{ req }}
-    # {% endfor %}
 
 test:
   imports:
@@ -58,6 +51,6 @@ about:
   doc_url:
   dev_url:
 
-# extra:
-#   recipe-maintainers:
-#     - your-github-id-here
+extra:
+  recipe-maintainers:
+    - ejolly