Team update - Feb 01, 2023

[trallard]

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**Thanks I'd like to give 🙌**
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**Updates from last week :heavy_check_mark:**
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**Challenges I faced and things I'd like assistance with 🙏**
- I had a hard time figuring out ...

**My availability for next week**
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[steff456]

Updates from last week ✔️

• I did some maintenance stuff in accessibility-pygments
  • I added Tania as maintainer to PyPI and conda-forge
• I continue doing the collapse menu work
  • Darian already approved the PR - he found two bugs, one that's not related to my PR and other one that is. So I'm working right now in finding that bug
  • I already added an optional flag for downstream libraries to decide if they want to use the collapse menu or not.

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

• I'm trying to find the source of the bug 😅

My availability for next week

• I'll be here

Important items for discussion 💬

• I don't have anything for today (:

[isabela-pf]

Thanks I'd like to give 🙌

Updates from last week ✔️

• Setup JLab user testing environment #192 Updated test notebook and opened PR to add notebook to the testing repo. I imagine this needs to go somewhere more specific or to a different branch, but I figured it's a start.
• JupyterLab user testing for common workflows #184 draft is still not done. 😦 End-of-week remains my goal timeline.

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

• I don't think I have anything now.

My availability for next week

• I'll be here all week. I've been a bit occupied with another project, though, and that may continue needing some extra focus.

Important items for discussion 💬

• I don't think I have anything right now.

[gabalafou]

Thanks I'd like to give 🙌

• Thank you all for your patience with me as I get better.

Updates from last week ✔️

• Staying alive. Nothing new for me since our last team update. I've been heads down on the Quansight website and Quansight Labs annual report.

My availability for next week

• Here

Important items for discussion 💬

• How much effort should go into accessibility fixes in future releases of 3 versus 4? Context: JupyterLab 3.6.0rc1 - style changes #13870.

[trallard]

@gabalafou
- He is still alive after being super sick 😷
- Planning to work on the tab trap doc for the accessibility meeting
- when do JLab sunset or stop maintaining previous versions?
- Focus on a11y work on master (which is 4.x now)

@isabela-pf
- @trallard to review Quansight-Labs/JupyterLab-user-testing#1
- Places where we cannot pay people: India, Estonia, and most of LatAm so we can start recruiting testers

@steff456
- maintenance in our pygments repo
- 🍔 menu is moving forward -> tests + bug squashing needed
- next: pygments fixes
- need to improve the highlight colours further so that they are WCAG conformant https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG22/#contrast-minimum

[isabela-pf]

Related to question of focus for accessibility fixes and versions.

• JupyterLab releases
• jupyterlab/jupyterlab #12397 Add version support timelines to documentation