Jupyter Community Call 04/26

Date: April 26, 2022, at 7am Pacific (in your timezone)

Discourse

YouTube recording

Please note:

• Community calls are recorded and posted to this playlist

• These notes will be recorded and posted here

• Everyone present is held to the Jupyter Code of Conduct

Purpose

Think of it as a monthly, virtual JupyterCon. It’s a place to announce and share fun things happening in the Jupyter community.

For more discussion on the format of these calls, see the thread here.

Short reports, celebrations, shout-outs

This is a place to make short announcements (without a need for discussion).

• Sarah Shout out to everyone who is here for handling time zones!

Agenda Items

• JupyterLab-LaTeX UX improvements PR Result of 2 semesters of work by Junior Design Capstone class team from Georgia Tech done for client (Axle Informatics/NIH). Project included a user reasearch section which is summarized in PR. New features highlights:

  • Preview button

  • Formatting buttons (bold, italic, underlined, subscript, superscript)

  • Autocomplete for common LaTeX tags (i.e. \subsection)

  • tikzplots templates

  • Table creation helper

  • Suggestion: UX to help with LaTeX install discovery, errors (even as documentation)

• JupyterLab-Git usability improvements 4 features added to JupyterLab-Git as a result of the 12-week Spring 2022 MLH Fellowship Open-Source Program. The majority of the work was done by Dat Quach and Zeshan Fayyaz with help and feedback from Frédéric Collonval.

  • Credential cache: save Git login credentials temporarily

  • Commit diff: compare two arbitrary commits in the History panel

  • Reset to remote: force reset a branch to match its remote tracking branch

  • A warning for unsaved staged files: warn the user when there are unsaved changes on files that are in the staged area

• Frederic

  • Search and Replace across files extension (release in the coming week)

  • GitHub repository

  • Demo

    • The extension is using a CLI tool called Ripgrep

    • This limits the usage of the extension to contents served from a file system.

  • Potential solutions for building index for other needs (like non OS filesystem) (thanks to Nick):

    • https://whoosh.readthedocs.io/en/latest/intro.html

    • https://pypi.org/project/lunr/

• Gayle - Jupyter Community Events Manager

  • 4th Round of CFP for Jupyter Community Workshop

  • Starting interviews for highlighted contributor write up in blog. If interested schedule time on calendar: https://calendly.com/gayle-numfocus/30min?month=2022-04

• Steve

  • New cookiecutter template for creating Jupyter Server Extensions

  • We created it during the weekly Jupyter Server contributing hour

• Jason W

  • Shout out for triage meetings! (Can be found on the Jupyter Community Calendar)

  • Typically at 10:00 PDT, though not this week

  • You can triage on your own: JupyterLab issues needing triage

Other Links Shared

This is a space to store links shared during community call discussions related to or separate from the agenda items.

• [lyx]https://www.lyx.org/

• https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep

• https://whoosh.readthedocs.io/en/latest/intro.html

• https://pypi.org/project/lunr/

Attendees

Name	Institution	GitHub Handle
Konstantin	Axle Informatics/NIH	@ktaletsk
Dat Quach	Major League Hacking (MLH)	@quachtridat
Jason Weill	AWS	@jweill-aws
Sarah Gibson	2i2c	@sgibson91
A. T. Darian	QuantStack	@afshin
Gayle Ollington	NumFOCUS	@gollington
Frederic Collonval	QuantStack	@fcollonval
Alex Bozarth	IBM	@ajbozarth
Steven Silvester	MongoDB	@blink1073
Chris Sewell	EPFL	@chrisjsewell
Wayne Decatur	Upstate Medical Univ.	@fomightez
Isabela Presedo-Floyd	Quansight Labs	@isabela-pf

Plus 1 more.