Matthias, thanks for your work on posting these clean summaries of our
meetings, it's a great way for the rest of the community to keep up with a
high-level view of the project's activities.

Cheers

f

On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 3:35 PM, Matthias Bussonnier <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> This is my attempt at writing a weekly summary of our video meeting we
> have each
> Tuesday. I’m using the notes that have been taken during the meeting by the
> collective effort so the quality of the section depends highly on the
> quality of
> the notes taken.
>
> There was no summary last week, so no week 8, as I got stuck because of
> weather.
> Sorry about that. As usual any help welcome. I also try to keep writing
> this
> summary under 30 min.
>
> With S3 outage, I had difficulty getting the notes in a markdown format so
> edition of notes will be likely really lite this week.
> Weekly news by organization
>
> We’re experimenting with weekly auto generation of statistics.
>
>    - IPython
>    <https://github.com/willingc/pulse_news/blob/master/2017_02_28_ipython.md>
>    (in progress)
>    - Jupyter
>    <https://github.com/willingc/pulse_news/blob/master/2017_02_28_jupyter.md>
>    (in progress)
>    - JupyterLab
>    
> <https://github.com/willingc/pulse_news/blob/master/2017_02_28_jupyterlab.md>
>    - Jupyter-widgets
>    
> <https://github.com/willingc/pulse_news/blob/master/2017_02_28_jupyter-widgets.md>
>    - JupyterHub
>    <https://github.com/willingc/pulse_news/blob/master/2017_02_28_jhub.md>
>
> Carol still run these by hand, any help would be welcome to streamline
> this using travis-ci crons.
> Project management
>
>    - We’ll use Dropbox paper for another month
>    - Project management tools team tutorial held last Friday, February
>    24. I will
>    post the video and summary to the mailing list after finishing the
>    annual
>    report due Weds.
>    - Attended the
> *Hacking at time-bound events* <https://hackathon-workshop.github.io/>
>    workshop at *CSCW* in
>    Portland this last Saturday, February 25 (http://cscw.acm.org/2017 -
>    Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing). Next step
>    is to
>    share workshop outcomes with @Safia & @Kyle K in preparation for
>    JupyterCon
>    sprints.
>    - *Binder* sustainability work is moving forward. Next discussion is
>    early
>    next week.
>    - *I’ll be at UC Davis next Wednesday morning* to observe Tracy Teal’s
>    launch
>    of the Publishing and Sharing lessons from the Data Carpentry
>    Reproducible
>    Research Curriculum.
>    - Giving a *Jupyter overview talk* for the Association for Women in
>    Science
>    (AWIS) next Wednesday night in SF.
>    - Min and Carol are visiting UC Berkeley next week
>    - Ryan Lovett will try to record the
> *accessibility workshop next Monday, March 6*. So far, Pete, Min, Mike,
>    Darian, Ian, Matthias, and Yuvi are attending.
>
> IPython
>
> We are closing in on 6.0 (https://github.com/ipython/ipython/milestone/33)
> less
> than 25 open issues/PR. Help and feedback welcome. If there are any issue
> that
> you care about not targetted fro 6.0 let us know.
>
> There’s some work ongoing on automating release steps
> (https://github.com/ipython/ipython/issues/10342), to reduce the amount
> of time
> we need to spend making releases. Hopefully this will generalize to other
> projects.
>
> Meeseeksdev infer branch to backport to (based on milestone). Just need to
> do
> @meeseeksdev backport now. 5 more seconds gained to backport PRs !
>
> We are attending a Docathon next week, we’ll focus on writing more docs for
> IPython and Jupyter. Feel free to join us to help and contribute ! See the
> docathon website: https://bids.github.io/docathon/
>
> Some Ideas:
>
>    - Cross-link more function/class/module names in docs with sphinx’s
>    :any: role
>    - Make config options individually linkable with a custom role (see
>    what we do
>    for magics as an example)
>    - Document JSON config: https://github.com/jupyter/jupyter/issues/242
>
> Notebook (Grant, Thomas, Jason)
>
> Closing in on 5.0 (https://github.com/jupyter/notebook/milestone/5) - 4
> open
> issues remaining. We’ll hopefully have RC1 or beta2 in the next couple of
> days.
>
> Improving UI for move files dialog: https://github.com/jupyter/
> notebook/pull/2234
> nbconvert (Mike)
>
>    -
>
>    Wrestling with fonts, encodings, LaTeX, Unicode coverage and Travis
>    (see
>    issue 533 <https://github.com/jupyter/nbconvert/issues/533> and pr
>    537 <https://github.com/jupyter/nbconvert/pull/537>)
>    - The solution may be to just have a more directly controllable server
>       on
>       which we test using a custom build (rather than trying to convince
>       travis to
>       behave nicely).
>       - If anyone has particularly strong feelings about
>       fonts/typography, the
>       solution is likely to involve changing the default export fonts, so
>       you may
>       want to keep an eye on that issue and pr.
>       - I’m going to be thinking about how to move to a more configurable
>       setup for
>       people to customise
>
> Services - kernel gateway, docker-stacks (Pete)
>
> nbviewer has been having issues hitting the GitHub API rate limit recently.
> After some investigation, a few SEO bots have been identified as the
> primary
> cause, and action taken:
>
>    1. block two ips driving a huge amount of traffic (in fastly)
>    2. update robots.txt to slow down respectful bots
>    3. dramatically increase caching of upstream requests, so that cached
>    responses
>    can be used more often https://github.com/jupyter/nbviewer/pull/674
>    4. allow using cached responses even if upstream requests fail because
>    a stale
>    render is better than an error https://github.com/jupyter/
>    nbviewer/pull/674
>    5. implement our own rate limiting in nbviewer, to prevent future
>    exhaustion
>    from a small number of sources https://github.com/jupyter/
>    nbviewer/pull/675
>
> The result is that the current situation is much better, when it comes to
> high
> traffic:
>
>    - the direct source of the traffic is blocked
>    - consumption of the GitHub API is greatly reduced under normal
>    circumstances
>    - behavior when the API rate limit is exceeded is greatly improved
>    - considerate bots (that respect robots.txt) should not cause the
>    problem again
>    - inconsiderate bots (or humans) are rate limited, making it a little
>    harder to
>    cause the problem again
>
> I (Min) set up a loggly account to do the log digging. I can invite anyone
> interested to get access to the account. I’ve drafted a blogpost it, and
> submitted it to the newsletter.
> Dashboard and related extensions** (Pete)
>
> No Pete today
> JupyterLab (Steve, Darian)
>
> We’re working toward a release since the port over to the new version of
> PhosphorJS. We have been trying to finish up a set of beta bug fixes
> before that
> release.
> ipywidgets (Jason**, Sylvain) (+ Brian, Cameron)
>
> ipywidgets 6.0 should be released today.
> JupyterHub (Min, Carol)
>
> It’s been a fairly quiet week for JupyterHub with the bulk of the work
> being
> done on issues, questions, and triage. Both Min and Carol will be at
> Berkeley
> next week.
> Conferences/Outreach
>
> New:
>
>    - One week remaining to submit talk to JupyterCon
>    - Please keep drumming up interest in your networks!
>
> Already Announced:
>
>    - Speaker outreach for JupyterCon <http://jupytercon.com> has begun.
>    Please
>    share that the Call For Proposal is open with your personal networks.
>    We
>    encourage anyone who is considering submitting a talk to do so.
> *Yes, core devs can submit a talk!!* Please contact us with any questions.
>    - Call For Proposals for SciPy opened last week, registration opens
>    Feb. 27
>    - PyData Amsterdam: 8-9 April, Call For Proposals is due 5 March
>    http://pydata.org/amsterdam2017/
>    - PyData London: 5-7 May, CFP due 24 February
>    http://pydata.org/london2017/
>
> Action Items for this week
>
>    - Does anyone have expertise in the intersection of LaTeX (spec.
>    \fontspec) +
>    default LaTeX fonts + Unicode coverage + font formats (+ Travis)
>    especially in
>    a cross-platform context? If so, please contact Mike.
>    - Mike is to contact Min when visiting re: Randy and other custom
>    publishing
>    workflows at Simula. (should not need to be copied to next week)
>    - Fernando - Carol is requesting demo notes to share with PyData Ann
>    Arbor on
>    Thursday night.
>    - Ping your networks to have people submit talks for JupyterCon! Email
>    your
>    friends directly as it’s most effective.
>
> Releases this week:
>
>    - JupyterLab 0.17
>    - nbdime-0.3
>    - ipywidgets 6.0 in the next hours
>    - notebook 5.0 beta2 (or rc1)
>
> Releases soon:
>
>    - IPython 6.0 is on its way. Probably mid march for a beta, maybe
>    before.
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Thanks you for reading, and thanks a lot for those of you who wrote
> sections
> with full sentences and all the details. Any help to put this document in
> form
> before sending it to the mailing list is welcome. It’s a collaborative
> document
> so anyone can pitch in.
>
> As usual if you have any questions/feedback/corrections like sections too
> long,
> to short missing informations, your input is welcomed. We’ll keep these
> summary
> for a couple of weeks to see if you find them useful.
>
> Thanks.
> ​
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> Matthias
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