August 26th JupyterLab Team Meeting

[tgeorgeux]

26 Aug 2020 Weekly Meeting

• Steve
  • Working through extension system refactor
    • Working on overriding another extension that someone else specified. I.e. override notebook extension, or copy link to clipboard
      • Also want this to work with traits. System level traits for disabled extensions. Layering affect of traitlets, override at user or env level
    • Try to improve upgrade story.
• Jason
  • Extension system refactor as well
  • • JupyterCon JupyterLab tutorial: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MnqeI1flbPT-kSuG_VdmyTrKIhyWU8Xhu_1L8kk0RxU/edit?usp=sharing
• Gonzalo:
  • Some updates on tooling and CI around benchmarks
  • Localization onboarding. Any volunteers :-)?
    • Action points
      • Open a team compass for the tutorial.
      • Open a team compass for the localization onboarding.
• Layne, Tim, and Isabela
  • Preview of survey in SurveyMonkey.
  • Outreach for next week.
  • Review use cases on question 8
  • Brian AWS UX team? (likely)
  • https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/SFJ5QLS
    • Please don't submit answers this preview yet!
  • Make issues on other team sub-projects.
• Eric
  • Server side-effects Side effects after migration to Jupyter Server jupyterlab#8856
    - Thx Zach for the server PRs!
    - Remaining issue is base_url handling in jupyterlab repo
  • Virtual Notebook for performance using Intersection Observer
    • POC in https://github.com/datalayer-contrib/jupyterlab/tree/virtual-notebook
    • Need to remove the wave effect (render 5 first cells directly, use requestIdleCallback, use placeholders)
    • Goal is to open a PR on 2.x branch
• Kite <> extension discoverability
• Brian
  • Modal command palette: Make the command palette modal jupyterlab#8809
  • Improved running panel: Integrate open tabs into running panel jupyterlab#8886
  • Bigger left panel picture
• Tim
  • Non-Advanced settings editor ready for development if anybody wants to try and get it into 3.0 I'm available for design support.
• Additional Disussion
  • JupyterLab 3.0 triage - RC is scheduled for 7 Sep. We are still in alpha.
  • Jupyterlab UI testing
    • Jason: did Mehmet ever actually release Galata anywhere? - not publicly yet - goal was to have a meeting about the onboarding (note from Steve)