Have CI use mamba (#2983)

Not an issue targetted fix. Improve CI (no user facing changes) - Overview mamba is a dropin replacement for the conda CLI but faster - Work done in this PR Enabled the `MAMBA` environment variable keyword for the CI helper. (cherry picked from commit 2ee4e9d)
MDAnalysis · Oct 24, 2020 · 73cd1e6 · 73cd1e6
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diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ env:
     - INSTALL_HOLE="true"
     - CYTHON_TRACE_NOGIL=1
     - MPLBACKEND=agg
+    - MAMBA=true
 
   jobs:
     # Run a coverage test for most versions

diff --git a/package/CHANGELOG b/package/CHANGELOG
@@ -50,6 +50,10 @@ Fixes
 Enhancements
   * Improved performances when parsing TPR files (PR #2804)
 
+Changes (not affecting users)
+  * Continuous integration uses mamba rather than conda to install the
+    dependencies (PR #2983)
+
 Deprecations
   * waterdynamics.HydrogenBondLifetimes will be removed in 2.0.0 and
     replaced with hydrogenbonds.HydrogenBondAnalysis.lifetime() (#2547)