09 December 2020 Meeting Minutes

[telamonian]

• Isabela and Tony

  • Accessibility feedback has raised concerns about CodeMirror. Since this is a critical part of JLab, we wanted to bring it up here.
    • This discussion has happened before at #4878
    • It's been brought up again with recent accessibility work at #9399
    • Plan is to triage after 3.0 and make this a priority. Not sure which of the three options for changing the editor will be best for the project.
  • Community call time overlapping with governance call again. Haven't moved it for this month because it's been annouced several places, but I want to stop this from happening.
    • This is fine and intentional. No need to change.

• Alex

  • Working on updating nbdime and git extensions to work on lab 3.0 in order to (hopefully) get them out "same day" as the 3.0 release. nbdime PR & jupyterlab-git PR
  • Moved older meeting notes into an archive file, list of archives can be found at the bottom of this hackmd

• Max

  • #9430 and #7130
  • A user asked for support for more theme override options
  • I told him to consider opening a PR
  • Then 5 minutes later I remembered I already a PR for the same thing
  • Rebasing the PR involved making changes to localized strings, so I asked @goanpeca for clarification on whether this is allowed

    • It is fine to change them, just make sure the new ones are using the trans.__

• Jason Grout

  • JLab 3 CSS issues resolved for now
  • Working on documentation

• Martha

  • #9432 Fixing the switch on debugger UI inconsistency

• Jeremy

  • Couple of PRs to make some plugins more flexible with optional
  • Some prototyping of lab-based standalone applications
    • App Template based on the JupyterLab Examples, but with a custom shell: https://github.com/jtpio/jupyterlab-app-template
    • Using this approach to progressively replace classic notebook extensions, for example in https://github.com/mamba-org/gator
    • JupyterLab Classic: https://github.com/jtpio/jupyterlab-classic
    • Shows how to build alternative distributions of JupyterLab
    • Implementing the idea mentioned in Notebook-only mode: provide a 1 to ~1 equivalent of notebook classic, implemented using jupyterlab api jupyterlab#8450
    • Can be tested on Binder: https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/jtpio/jupyterlab-classic/main?urlpath=classic/tree

Discussion

• JLab 3.0 triage