Weekly Dev Call Meeting Minutes 2019-10-02

[jasongrout]

• Darian
  • Debugger planning:
    • Connect breakpoints
    • Connection variable inspector
    • Release extension in December for testing and moving toward folding into core.
• Jason
  • Released JupyterLab 2.0.0a1 on Tuesday
  • Reworking services package kernel architecture for 2.0 to clean up warts and problems with the services package in 1.0 and enable us to experiment with treating sessions as first-class things in JupyterLab. Would love a review of the proposed architecture
  • Who is interested and available to work on accessibility for JLab 2.0?
    • Darian can offer 2 one-hour calls for mentorship a week on this.
  • Should we have JLab 1.2?
    • Jason will look into risk of backwards compatibility, and cut an RC today or tomorrow.
• Vidar
  • Not much this week
• Steve
  • Close to filing an issue for the Jupyter Enterprise JEP
• Tim
  • No updates
• Max
  • Minor more adventures in backwards compatibility
    • Failed to activate plugins after JupyterLab build jupyterlab#7283
    • deleting yarn.lock can lead to all extension packages updating to latest
• New things to check for backwards compat (add to PR template with links to longer description in docs Backwards incompatability checklist jupyterlab#7289):
  • Adding tokens to required field of existing plugins required a major version bump?
  • Webpack config change
  • CSS class names

Other items

• in-person meeting. Looking at the date survey results, it looks like the best time is 2 Dec - 6 Dec. Conversation continuing on in-person dev meeting #19

[ellisonbg]

Can we do a triage on 1.2 labelled issues - there are 72 open right now, so if we are going to move forward with a release, we should all be ok with which of those are included in the release or not.