Jupyter Widgets weekly meeting

• When: Every other Friday 8AM Pacific Time
• Where: jovyan Zoom (pwd: c0JZTHlNdS9Sek9vdzR3aTJ4SzFTQT09)

19 July 2024

• Talked about adjacent topics
  • ipyautoui
  • AsyncAPI
  • msgspec
  • anywidget
  • proposal-signals
• Nick demoed a project ipyprofiler he is working on for profiling and showing call graphs in JavaScript.

5 July 2024

1. ipywidgets 7 and JupyterLab 4 – go ahead with a patch release of 7 to allow compatibility with JupyterLab 4.
2. controls from ipywidgets 7 with manager from ipywidgets 8 – A couple of proposed solutions were discussed. Trung will try them out.

21 June 2024

1. Nick: Demo about profiler widget showing the pain points of creating in Python (not yet published on Github)

2. Replacing backbone? https://github.com/tc39/proposal-signals

3. Making widgets accessible? The slider would not work well with a screen reader

7 June 2024

Agenda

1. New release of ipywidgets enabling the display of widgets in consoles.

2. Discussion about organization of the byweekly.

3. Discussion about collaborative widgets (ypywidgets)

4. Move of ipydatagrid from Bloomberg to jupyter-widgets: we should put out a blog post about the new project.

24 May 2024

Agenda

• Discuss meeting scheduling?

• Announce merging PR on supporting widgets in JupyterLab consoles 🎉

  • https://github.com/jupyter-widgets/ipywidgets/pull/3004

• Some CI fixes:

  • https://github.com/jupyter-widgets/ipywidgets/pull/3919
  • https://github.com/jupyter-widgets/ipywidgets/pull/3918

• Discuss YJS-based backbone PolyFill

• Monkeypatch BackboneJS with YJS?

19 December 2023

5 December 2023

• Audio issues - meeting cancelled

10 October 2023

Agenda

Piyush

• https://github.com/jupyter-widgets/ipywidgets/issues/3798#issuecomment-1740131438
  • Tested the ImageWidget as well, and it also does not work with a Kernel Gateway
  • Chat thread on Gitter: https://matrix.to/#/!YRSHKlJcIMDztevnpc:gitter.im/$_g9_XHWdxxIOwrc2ZozqlWCJY9MqxQaNE90oUtgRiF8?via=gitter.im&via=matrix.org&via=laas.fr

Nick

• Fix for MathJax in progress
  • https://github.com/jupyter-widgets/ipywidgets/pull/3847

• Triage

12 September 2023

• Discussion:
  • Martin:
    • Issue https://github.com/jupyter-widgets/ipywidgets/issues/3735 fixed by reverting recent changes in serialization https://github.com/jupyter-widgets/ipywidgets/pull/3830

29 August 2023

• Documentation working group proposal!

  • https://github.com/jupyterlab/jupyterlab/issues/15011
  • Seeking contributors

• Vote on deprecating the JS cookiecutter

  • https://github.com/jupyter-widgets/team-compass/issues/25

15 August 2023

• Issue triage
  • Issue #3824 – Itay will look at it.
  • Issue #3823 – Itay will look at it.
  • Issue #3822 – Needs triaging to see what the expected output is.
  • Issue #3821 – Deferriung to a later meeting.
• Pull requests
  • PR #3780 – merged
  • PR #3792 – merged
• Itay won't be in the next meeting on the 29th (summer holiday)

18 July 2023

18 July 2023

• [Matt]
  • Drag-and-drop PR (from SciPy sprints): https://github.com/jupyter-widgets/ipywidgets/pull/3803
  • SciPy ipywidgets tutorial focused on nbdev/literate programming. Will collaborate with the preseneter on a proposal for next year.

20 June 2023

• [Martin]:
  • Jupyter Widgets contrib org: https://github.com/jupyter-widgets-contrib
  • ipywidgets + Lumino 2 Lab 4: https://github.com/jupyter-widgets/ipywidgets/pull/3752
• [Itay]:
  • Recorded discussion around deprecating the JS cookiecutetr

6 June 2023

• Propose a SciPy widgets BoF? Matt will propose one
• [Paddy]:
  • Feedback about the cookiecutter
• [Itay]:
  • Triage
  • Update team compass to show new meeting time/cadence
  • SSC updates
• [David]:
  • Move ypywidgets to ipywidgets? We'll try to have feature-parity with basic ipywidgets and come back to resume discussions.
• Propose a SciPy widgets BoF? Matt will propose one
• Decision on cookiecutter – put a deprecation of the JS flavor to a vote by the council, and focus on the TS flavor as the supported way.
• Suggestion by Martin is to wait until ypywidgets support more of the front-ends the current ipywidgets supports.
• Next meeting: Tue, June 20

23 May 2023

• [Itay]: we should update the meeting time on the team-compass repo to reflect 8:15am start instead of 8:30am PT.

• Discussions from JupyterCon:

  • Typescript cookiecutter not working?
  • Should we settle on one cookitcutter repo instead of two?
  • Good opportunity to try the alternative to cookiecutter suggested by Steve – copier?

• [Martin] JupyterLab 4 / Lumino 2 update https://github.com/jupyter-widgets/ipywidgets/pull/3752

• Next meeting: Tue, June 6

02 May 2023

• New meeting time:

  • 8:15am-9:00am, PT, every two weeks, starting on the 23rd of May

• SSC+EC update at JupyterCon

  • Create one or two slides per subproject

  • Highlight one or two recent or near future developments/releases you are excited about (anytime from 2022 to present time)

  • Highlight one or two things you’d like other Jupyter subprojects to know for coordination/discussion/collaboration

  • ipywidgets 8 released last summer

24 Apr 2023

• Future meeting time still being decided - will update later today after we get more responses.

17 Apr 2023

• Weekly Meeting
  • Itay sent out doodle
    • https://doodle.com/meeting/participate/id/eE0GOPgd
• SSC meeting
  • Reviewed JEP JEP
  • Looked at kernel startup handshake
  • meeting notes
• Triage

10 Apr 2023

• Weekly Meeting
  • Sparse attendance recently
  • [Itay] Send out a new survey for a 30 minute meeting
• Triage

03 Apr 2023

• Meeting was canceled due to low attendance

27 Mar 2023

• Triage

13 Mar 2023

• Triage
• Nick: ipykernel, widgetsnbextension, jupyterlab_widgets dependencies
  • on @jupyterlite/pyodide-kernel, looking to optimize on-the-wire deps
  • adding more hacks to avoid downloading things over ~100kb

6 Mar 2023

• ypywidgets
• Triage

20 Feb 2023

• PRs
  • https://github.com/jupyter-widgets/ipywidgets/pull/3699/files

13 Feb 2023

• PRs

  • https://github.com/jupyter-widgets/ipywidgets/pull/3689

• Discuss

  • https://github.com/jupyter-widgets/ipywidgets/issues/3692#issuecomment-1428462243
  • https://github.com/jupyter-widgets/ipywidgets/issues/3698
  • https://github.com/jupyter-widgets/ipywidgets/issues/3695

6 Feb 2023

1. SSC meeting report by Itay:
   • Nothing specific regarding widgets.
2. Sylvain: xwidgets protocol 2.1
   • https://github.com/jupyter-xeus/xwidgets/pull/251
3. Sylvain: widgets schemas should be JSON schemas
4. RTC Widgets
   • Schedule a demo of jupytercad and ywidgets
5. Maarten Breddels
   • https://github.com/jupyter-widgets/ipywidgets/issues/3692
   • https://github.com/jupyter-widgets/ipywidgets/pull/3689
   • Plans to do a release after fixing the above
6. Kellie to follow up on documentation discussion from the London workshop

30 Jan 2023

• [Itay] Run another meeting time poll that gives available, available if necessary, and not available options
• What does success look like for ipywidgets in 2023?
• ipflow: https://github.com/ipyflow/ipyflow#integration-with-ipywidgets
• PR Review
  • https://github.com/jupyter-widgets/ipywidgets/pull/3682

23 Jan 2023

• https://github.com/jupyter-widgets/ipywidgets/pull/3673
• Meeting time
• Keeping notes

13 Dec 2022

• Triage: https://github.com/jupyter-widgets/ipywidgets/pulse

• Maarten Breddels made a release. Hooray!

• Meetings through the end of the year

  • Canceling ipywidgets dev meeting until January 10, 2023. Happy new year!
  • Itay will send an email to council and post on the team compass a poll for a new meeting time that may work better.

• Upcoming conferences:

  • PyData Seattle (April)
  • PyCon US (April)
  • JupyterCon (May)

6 Dec 2022

• Adjust weekly meeting time

• Triage: https://github.com/jupyter-widgets/ipywidgets/pulse

• Maarten Breddels: Should I make a release?

• SSC

29 Nov 2022

• [Vidar] SSC: Itay is our SSC representative! One-year term.

  • Need to update widgets team compass with council membership, representative, and term length

• [Steve] Questions: Thebe moving to KernelWidgetManager, examples of loading widget state

  • In ipywidgets 8, we use Lumino widgets
  • Loading widget state:
    • JupyterLab: https://github.com/jupyter-widgets/ipywidgets/blob/master/python/jupyterlab_widgets/src/manager.ts#L514
    • HTML manager: https://github.com/jupyter-widgets/ipywidgets/tree/master/packages/html-manager/src

• Jupyter Executive Council elections ongoing this week - if you are on a Jupyter council, please vote!

• PyData Global: Dec 1-3 https://pydata.org/global2022/

• Triage: https://github.com/jupyter-widgets/ipywidgets/pulse

  • [Maarten] https://github.com/jupyter-widgets/ipywidgets/pull/3642
    • for future: we could have traits opt in to batch update
  • https://github.com/jupyter-widgets/ipywidgets/issues/3630
  • https://github.com/jupyter-widgets/ipywidgets/issues/3640
  • https://github.com/jupyter-widgets/ipywidgets/issues/3641

22 Nov 2022

• SSC: Vidar is tallying the results
• EC election
  • Useful if Brian, Darian, and Fernando post their interest answers

15 Nov 2022

• Maarten: issue

  • https://github.com/jupyter-widgets/ipywidgets/issues/3635
  • Maarten to open a PR to revert and possibly a second PR to reenable

• Pete: rich output progress: https://github.com/jupyterlab/richoutput-js

  • https://github.com/blois/richoutput-js/tree/comms_n_widgets
  • a stab at a renderer which supports widgets on top of it: https://github.com/blois/portable-widget-manager/tree/main

• Martin: Voila removing the custom widget manager and reusing the JupyterLab KernelWidgetManager manager

  • https://github.com/voila-dashboards/voila/pull/1249
  • Needs https://github.com/jupyter-widgets/ipywidgets/pull/3561 for the Output widget. Vidar reviewing.

• Vidar: SSC representative: email went out on Saturday to the Jupyter Widgets council to vote for an SSC representative. Deadline is Sunday, 20 Nov 2022, anywhere on earth.

  • Jason to post an email about having 1-year terms for SSC rep

• Jason: EC election starting very soon: https://jupyter.org/governance/intro.html, https://jupyter.org/governance/bootstrapping_executive_council.html

• triage:

  • https://github.com/jupyter-widgets/ipywidgets/pulls

08 Nov 2022

• Notes in team-compass: https://github.com/jupyter-widgets/team-compass
• Jupyter-widgets SSC representative
  • Election of SSC representative
    • if there are two people, then any form that chooses between the two people and has a "blank" option works
    • if there are more than two people, the ballot is ranked-choice.
    • Election run for 1 week
• reviewers: https://github.com/jupyter-widgets/ipywidgets/pulls