Team Sync - Jun 28, 2021

[choldgraf]

This is a @2i2c-org/tech-team sync 🎉🎉🎉! This is a way for 2i2c Team Members to triage work, point out issues that require attention, and make sure we are working well as a team. This issue will be closed at the end of the day.

Team worfklow boards

• Activity Backlog
• Development Backlog
• Organizational Backlog

High priority issues

These issues require attention quickly:

• Create team documentation and training for "best practices in managing services for other communities"
• Create a sandbox account on GCP
• Set up fiscal sponsorship with Code for Science and Society

Team update template

Please respond to this issue with your team update! That means anyone on the @2i2c-org/tech-team. You shouldn't feel forced to add content if you can't think of anything, use it as much as is useful.

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Response Template

**Thanks I'd like to give 🙌**
- So-and-so helped me out a lot with XXX...
- Thanks for Jo's work on the XXX repo...

**Updates from last week ✔**
- I worked towards deliverable: <link-to-deliverable>
- I had a meeting with ABC

**What I'm up to next ⬜**
- I'd like to focus on deliverable <link-to-deliverable>
- I'm answering user questions this week

**My availability for next week**
- I'll be off on XXX day...
- I've got several meetings this week...

**Links to items for discussion 💬**
- Can @XXX give a comment on issue #NN ?
- I opened #NN for discussion, please chime in

[sgibson91]

Thanks I'd like to give 🙌

• @choldgraf for coordinating issues around smoothing out the onboarding process and updating docs

Updates from last week ✔

• I began tracking the migration of the Pangeo JupyterHub on GCP New Hub: Pangeo JupyterHub (GCP) infrastructure#482 Some extra info from Ryan will help that move forward, I've pinged him in Slack

What I'm up to next ⬜

• I might try some test deployments on the AWS sandbox @choldgraf setup
• Ryan gave us access to a new GCP project, so I will try following team process to deploy new infrastructure there

My availability for next week

• Low availability on Tuesday but I have Slack on my phone if I'm needed urgently. Otherwise normal hours.

Links to items for discussion 💬

• I have opened the following two issues discussing use cases when we don't have the permissions we expect: Pangeo Access for 2i2c Engineers #136 and How does this repo fit for projects we don't manage? org-ops#3

[yuvipanda]

Thanks I'd like to give 🙌

• @consideRatio and @sean-morris for getting nbgitpuller issues sorted out!
• @sgibson91 for code review! Caught an RTD issue that had been eluding me for a while
• @minrk for getting excited with me about https://github.com/jupyterhub/grafana-dashboards
• @damianavila for getting Refactor GCP terraform code + add MOEM-IGE hub infrastructure#429 merged

Updates from last week ✔

• Refactor GCP terraform code + add MOEM-IGE hub infrastructure#429 was merged! We have a better base for doing things in GCP now! \o/
• My grafana dashboards project is now part of the jupyterhub org \o/
• Almost finished the farallon hub move.

What I'm up to next ⬜

• Get the grafana dashboards deployed on our clusters
• Finish the farallon hub move by cleaning up the old resources left over

My availability for next week

• I'll be doing Berkeley things this Wednesday and Thursday

[GeorgianaElena]

Thanks I'd like to give 🙌

• @choldgraf for researching about fiscal sponsorship and for coordinating team docs/practices improvements

Updates from last week ✔

• Worked towards Upgrade to JupyterLab 3.0 utoronto-2i2c/jupyterhub-deploy#81
• A few PR reviews/discussions

What I'm up to next ⬜

• I'd like to focus on Traefik 2.0 support in traefik-proxy upstream#16 and Bring TLJH up to date upstream#17
• I will try to give Add 2i2c staff as admins to all hubs infrastructure#311 another try

My availability for next week

• Available all week

[damianavila]

Thanks I'd like to give 🙌

• Thanks @yuvipanda for fulfilling my PR review follow-up annoying request 😉
• Thanks @choldgraf for all his help with admin-related stuff and for the interesting conversations about EBP stuff.

Updates from last week ✔

• Focused on EBP-Nikola relationship (learning underlying stuff to come up with a good story there)
• Further push is some admin stuff
• Push on PR reviews (so we get merged some almost ready PRs) and issue feedback (so we push forward several discussions)

What I'm up to next ⬜

• I'd like to continue focusing on: Implement a MyST parser for Nikola upstream#14
• Some EBP meetings
• PR reviews and feedback on issues, as usual 😉

My availability for next week

• Available as usual with the caveat that I will be a little bit slower than usual to reply because I am taking care of my son the whole week.

[choldgraf]

Updates from last week ✔

• I finished up more conversations and tasks in preparation for our (hopeful) transition to CSS (see https://github.com/2i2c-org/meta/issues/206)
• I'm digging into some admin issues at Berkeley around setting up contracts for @rowanc1 and @damianavila :-)

What I'm up to next ⬜

• I'm gonna start going through my backlog of strategy and organizational things that I've been putting off while were negotiating with ICSI :-)
• Helping out in some more Executable Books documentation efforts!

My availability for next week

• I'm around all week (though another reminder that I'm traveling to France on July 6th, and will be a bit spotty in availability for the days just after as I will be jetlagged with a baby, yay!)

Links to items for discussion 💬

• I just posted a draft for a communications strategy for 2i2c, would love to hear feedback: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qWXQA7LrCQ6oaiE5iYKpc4gR0q15aw_Yskv7J8JEgSY/edit?usp=sharing

@damianavila let me know if you wanna chat about MyST stuff :-)

@GeorgianaElena good luck on the TraefixProxy update! Maybe we can write a little blog post once it's released? Happy to help with that.

[consideRatio]

Thanks I'd like to give 🙌

• @yuvipanda and @minrk for their work on centralized grafana-dashboard definitions that I'm confident will make any effort put into improving dashboards will start feeling sustainable!
• @choldgraf for thorough work about fiscal sponsorship for 2i2c and scheduling a meet with me to chat!

Updates from last two weeks ✔

• Z2JH 1.0.0 and 1.0.1 released
• EarthCube presentation made

What I'm up to next ⬜

• I'll initialize neurohackademy's hub at https://github.com/neurohackademy/nh2021-jupyterhub
• I'll work on Support for dynamic configurable authorization logic jupyterhub/jupyterhub#3490
• I'll try use the jupyterhub-ssh Helm chart for the JMTE deployment
• I'll try setup support to use the nix package manager in JMTE

My availability for next week

• 100%