Voilà Weekly Meeting

2019 / 10 / 28

Attendees:

• Sylvain Corlay
• Martin Renou
• Derek Pyne
• Vidar T. Fauske
• Jeremy Tuloup
• Zach Sailer
• Andrew Schlaepfer

Notes:

Community

• The move of Voilà as a Jupyter subproject was acted. We still need to make an official announcement. We have updated all packages to reflect changes.
• We need to set up release notes for future releases.
• Zach created a master calendar for all the regular Jupyter meetings.

Tech

• Testing templates with HTML validator
  • Originally by Bartosz on voila-gridstack, could be useful for other Voilà or nbconvert templates.
• Evaluating GitHub Actions for CI: https://github.com/voila-dashboards/voila/pull/445
• Automation of the deployment of the gallery
  • Using GitHub Actions to deploy the gallery from the master branch: https://github.com/voila-dashboards/gallery/pull/81
• nbclassic
  • Thin package that provides Jupyter Notebook UI on top of Jupyter Server
  • jupyter notebook server extension that runs side-by-side with voila’s ExtensionApp (Zach)
  • jupyter nbclassic from command line.
  • https://github.com/Zsailer/nbclassic
• Voilà 0.1.15 has been released. It is a bugfix release including the support of comm_open and comm_close messages by default.
• Voilà-reveal 0.0.2 has been released https://github.com/voila-dashboards/voila-reveal
• Linked dashboards using REQUEST_URI (Derek): https://github.com/voila-dashboards/voila/pull/414
  • CGI standard
• PDF rendering ongoing work stemming from Nick Bollweg’s prototype.