JupyterHub and BinderHub Team Meeting#

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Welcome to the Team Meeting#

Hello!

If you are joining the team video meeting, sign in below so we know who was here. Roll call:

  • min / Simula / @minrk

  • Sarah / 2i2c / @sgibson91

  • Simon / University of Dundee / @manics

  • Callum / ATI / @callummole

  • Mridul / GESIS / @MridulS

  • Erik / Sundell open source / @consideRatio

Quick updates#

60 second updates on things you have been up to, questions you have, or developments you think people should know about. Please add yourself, and if you do not have an update to share, you can pass.

  • Sarah: As the Community Strategic Lead, I am hoping to kick off some Outreachy internships, but need help with shaping projects and willing mentors! Please see jupyterhub/team-compass#550

    • 4 rounds of Outreachy over two years

  • Callum: Turing-prod and turing-staging are both new clusters, redeployed to Uk south. But still having intermittency issues :( jupyterhub/mybinder.org-deploy#2252

Reports and celebrations#

This is a place to make announcements (without a need for discussion). This is also a great place to give shout-outs to contributors! We’ll read through these at the beginning of the meeting.

Agenda items#

Let’s collect all potential agenda items here before the start of the meeting. We will then attempt to create a coherent agenda that fits in the 60m meeting slot. If there are similar items try and group them together.

  • **Min (10m): **z2jh 2.0 jupyterhub/zero-to-jupyterhub-k8s#2528

    • Trying to release this for nearly a year!

    • Ready to do a first beta release (we think?)

    • Min would like someone who spends more time on z2jh to make the call for a beta release

    • Erik: one part about how to write the changelog

      • duplicate changes in beta into main release?

    • Min: doesn’t view beta as getting release notes, they get a draft of what’s changed which is iterated on up to the main release

      • agreed to also make this change in z2jh

    • Erik: agrees z2jh is ready with review of changelog

    • Simon: Stop mergings PRs, update and review changelog, release beta then start merging again

    • Action: update the PR, will include jupyterhub 3-beta1

  • Min (5m): chartpress prerelease tags: jupyterhub/chartpress#150

    • Not ready yet, but still open for conversation

    • How we tag prereleases of helm charts

    • Confusing because latest helm chart is 1.3.1-prerelease because of how we use git describe to generate tags

    • PR allows us to be explicit about being in a prerelease phase and more intelligible prerelease tags

    • After we make first prerelease and before we make the first main release, the two behaviours are the same, so there’s still time to iterate

  • Simon (5m): Pending breaking changes to BinderHub Build class jupyterhub/binderhub#1521

    • Related to PR linked in the celebrations section, with no breaking changes

    • New class for the k8s build, old build class became a subclass, but maintenance burden to support both

    • Suggestion to move to a traitlets-based config, but would mean everyone using old config would need to rewrite config

    • Erik: If we cause breaking changes, we should have helm template error early before deploying k8s resources because it does not conform to a JSON schema

    • Min: two levels of breaking, breaking the Python API (not a big-deal, not really supported yet), on a config level it’s moving things from one class to another and can be deprecated softly (log a warning and translate in the background)

    • Erik: Should we do a hard break in order to keep the code readable and maintainable for us? Or deprecate?

      • Min: What breaks, and what effort is involved in keeping it from breaking? E.g. Breaking the Python API is under-used and hard to maintain so we should break, whereas config is well-used and easy to fix, so we shouldn’t break it

    • Simon: will try to keep it non-breaking and will iterate in the PR