Jupyter Community Call 04/26

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

Video-conference link: https://zoom.us/my/jovyan?pwd=c0JZTHlNdS9Sek9vdzR3aTJ4SzFTQT09

Discourse: https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/jupyter-community-calls/668

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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

Welcome!

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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).

• Name This is an example of short report formatting.

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

Agenda Items

Add agenda items here before the meeting. We will reorganize the agenda so that it fits in the 60m meeting slot.

• Name This is an example of agenda item formatting.

• 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)

• Dat Quach 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.

• https://www.lyx.org/
• https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep
• https://whoosh.readthedocs.io/en/latest/intro.html
• https://pypi.org/project/lunr/