Team Sync - Monday, November 29th

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This is a @2i2c-org/tech-team sync 🎉🎉🎉! This is a way for 2i2c Team Members to provide status reports on what they've been up to this week and request help and attention for things they are working on. This issue will be closed at the end of the day.

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**Thanks I'd like to give 🙌**
- So-and-so helped me out a lot with XXX...
- Thanks for Jo's work on the XXX repo...

**Updates from last week ✔**
- I worked towards deliverable: <link-to-deliverable>
- I had a meeting with ABC

**Challenges I faced and things I'd like assistance with 🙏**
- I had a hard time figuring out ...
- Could somebody take a look at ...

**My availability for next week**
- I'll be off on XXX day...
- I've got several meetings this week...

[choldgraf]

Thanks I'd like to give 🙌

• Thanks to everybody for holding down the fort while I was away on holiday!

Updates from last week ✔

• I didn't do a ton of work last week because I spent most of the time with my family 🎉
• I've had some helpful conversations lately with @colliand around Create a 2i2c sustainability team #300 and next steps there.

Challenges I faced and things I'd like assistance with 🙏

• A man can only eat so much turkey

My availability for next week

• I'll be around all week, and will finally have childcare again, thank god...

[GeorgianaElena]

Thanks I'd like to give 🙌

• @sgibson91 and @yuvipanda for guiding my first (scary 👻) interactions with terraform
• @2i2c-org/tech-team for being awesome

Updates from last week ✔

• Deployed a new Azure cluster for U of T U of Toronto new cluster terraform config infrastructure#856
• Some suggestions after following the docs for a new Azure cluster deployment Update Azure new cluster instructions infrastructure#859

Challenges I faced and things I'd like assistance with 🙏

• First terraform interaction 😱

My availability for next week

• Another reminder that today and tomorrow are national holidays in Romania. So I will be partly available today and totally AFK tomorrow.

[consideRatio]

Thanks I'd like to give 🙌

• @sean-morris for being so thorough and patient with review comments
• @minrk for the work towards JupyterHub 2.0!

Updates from last week ✔

• General maintenance efforts in https://github.com/jupyterhub/jupyter-server-proxy
• Smaller maintenance matters in jupyterhub org, release 2.0.0 of KubeSpawner for example
• Review work for nbgitpuller

Challenges I faced and things I'd like assistance with 🙏

• I'd appreciate review help for Min in Service auth doc jupyterhub/jupyterhub#3695 which is the last blocker for JupyteHub 2.0 i understand.

My availability for next week

• 100% for next week
• This week, I'll be taking a trip with my gf thursday/friday

[damianavila]

Thanks I'd like to give 🙌

• The whole @2i2c-org/tech-team, you are all awesome
• To @fcollonval for his awesome work in New approach for JupyterLab 3 damianavila/RISE#605

Updates from last week ✔

• Getting feedback from the openscapes folks ([EVENT] OpenScapes NASA Cloud Hackathon infrastructure#810 (comment)) and finishing last pieces about that event 😉
• More progress on several admin-related items
• Getting my hands dirty with pydata theme stuff
  • Explore concurrent PRs for the version switcher
    • ENH: Add version switcher dropdown menu pydata/pydata-sphinx-theme#276
    • feat(version-switcher): add version switcher pydata/pydata-sphinx-theme#433
    • ✨ NEW: add version switcher pydata/pydata-sphinx-theme#436
  • Deep review on ✨ NEW: add version switcher pydata/pydata-sphinx-theme#436, requested some changes but we agreed to pursue those as a follow-up PR.
  • Understanding the environment management machinery, essentially using nox for "real" for the first time and checking how interplay with conda/mamba.
• Research and learn about the config connector to see if I could help with Debug why helm chart/config connector doesn't create a new service account infrastructure#669
  • After looking at config connector docs, troubleshooting, and repo issues/reports, I did not find anything useful to push that forward...

Challenges I faced and things I'd like assistance with 🙏

• Not enough hours in the day 😉

My availability for next week

• 100%, although less available Mon, Tue and more available toward the end of the week

[sgibson91]

• Understanding the environment management machinery, essentially using nox for "real" for the first time and checking how interplay with conda/mamba.

I'd be interested in what you learn @damianavila. I have 2 environments for the infrastructure repo, one for docs the other for technical requirements, and I got a bit nervous that nox would overwrite my technical one 😬

[sgibson91]

Thanks I'd like to give 🙌

• @GeorgianaElena for road-testing the Azure stuff

Challenges I faced and things I'd like assistance with 🙏

• Struggled to find my focus a bit last week

My availability for next week

• 100%

[choldgraf]

@sgibson91 you should be able to run nox -s docs --no-venv and the --no-venv will tell it to just use the environment from which you're calling nox, rather than building your own virtualenv with nox

[sgibson91]

@choldgraf thanks!

[damianavila]

In addition to that, @sgibson91, you should not be worried about your technical environment because, AFAIK, nox will create a new environment for the docs without interacting with the underlying environment you are in (most likely the technical one).

$ conda info -e
# conda environments:
#
...
base                     /Users/damian/miniconda
pilot-hubs            *  /Users/damian/miniconda/envs/pilot-hubs
...

(pilot-hubs) $ pip install nox
Collecting nox
...
Successfully installed argcomplete-1.12.3 backports.entry-points-selectable-1.1.1 colorlog-6.6.0 distlib-0.3.3 filelock-3.4.0 nox-2021.10.1 platformdirs-2.4.0 virtualenv-20.10.0

(pilot-hubs) $ nox -s docs
nox > Running session docs
nox > Creating conda env in .nox/docs with python
nox > conda install --yes --prefix /Users/damian/devel/2i2c/pilot-hubs/.nox/docs --channel=conda-forge go-terraform-docs python=3.8
nox > python -m pip install -r docs/requirements.txt
...
nox > Session docs was successful.

(pilot-hubs) $ conda info -e
# conda environments:
#
...
                         /Users/damian/devel/2i2c/pilot-hubs/.nox/docs
base                     /Users/damian/miniconda
pilot-hubs            *  /Users/damian/miniconda/envs/pilot-hubs
...

Notice this command run by nox:

conda install --yes --prefix /Users/damian/devel/2i2c/pilot-hubs/.nox/docs --channel=conda-forge go-terraform-docs python=3.8

That is creating a completely isolated and unnamed environment at that specific prefix.