Voilà Weekly Meeting

2019 / 10 / 07

Attendees:

• Sylvain Corlay
• Zach Sailer
• Vidar Fauske
• Andrew Schlaepfer
• Brian Granger
• Martin Renou
• Maarten Breddels

Updates

Governance

• The move of Voila to Jupyter: proposal was submitted to Jupyter Steering Council.

Tech

• Faster Rendering in the case of Progressive Rendering (Martin)

• Martin presented his PR to speed up progressive rendering

• https://github.com/voila-dashboards/voila/pull/396

• Spinner logo when Voila executes the Notebook (Martin)

• https://github.com/voila-dashboards/voila/pull/393

• Error management (Martin)

• Prevent showing traceback and exception names, which could expose code.
• Except when the –debug command-line argument is used

• https://github.com/voila-dashboards/voila/pull/398

• Optimized GIFs for screencasts and change of git history? (Sylvain)

• GIF screencasts take a lot of space and could be optimized
• However, if only removed from master, they would remain in the GIT history and downloaded at every clone operation.

• We could also remove them from the GIT history which Would force everyon who currently has open PR to rebase their PR.

• Phoila demo (Vidar)

• blocking on the Jupyter-server migration to ExtensionApp
• uses the jupyterlab build and extension system
• allows the use of e.g. jupyterlab mime renderer
• discussion on whether this could be a voila template, and upstreaming of logic.

(Ensues more discussions about Jupyter server migration - tabled to jupyter_server)

• Reactive JS kernel using observablehq runtime (Brian)

• JS kernels discussed (backend with xeus and node, front-end with the observablehq runtime.)
• async import of js modules, JSDeliver

Jupyter_server

• Jupyter Server Weekly Meeting
  • First meeting is happening this Thursday, October 10th. (your timezone)