Create new, empty repo to facilitate collaboration on the "notebook state" problem

[Zsailer]

Hi folks,

In yesterday's server meeting, I proposed creating a new repo to explore solutions to the issue raised here: Proposal: Restore Notebook execution progress when a browser page is reload

We've seen a lot of interest on this issue from people representing different organizations. I'd like to focus this energy to a single place on Github so we can easily collaborate. This work will likely be larger than a single PR and require some explorative work. For that reason, I'd like to focus this work in a separate repo.

I'll open a vote in our private council repo. @jupyter-server/jupyter-server-council

In the meantime, what should we call this repo if it gets created?

[Zsailer]

Pinging folks who've been involved in the conversations: @matthewwiese @skukhtichev and @parul100495

[Zsailer]

In the meantime, what should we call this repo if it gets created?

How about: jupyter-server/jupyter_message_replay ?

[matthewwiese]

@Zsailer jupyter-server/jupyter_message_replay is succinct enough for me!

[parul100495]

The name looks good to me as well.

[Zsailer]

Some other names that were discuss:

• kernel-playback
• message-recovery

[ivanov]

How about "serverside-notebook-state"? "message replay" is one possible solution, but not the only one.

[Zsailer]

The Server Team voted in favor of creating a new repo for this work 🚀! (8 Yes, 7 Abstain).

Let's create the repo during the meeting.

[Zsailer]

How about "serverside-notebook-state"? "message replay" is one possible solution, but not the only one.

@ivanov true. The problem is a bit broader than the notebook too—e.g. kernel state (say for a console, not a notebook document) needs restoration too.

[matthewwiese]

@Zsailer Could you add a placeholder README to the jupyter-server/message_replay repo? GitHub won't let me fork it and open a PR with the extension cookiecutter template because the repository is empty

[blink1073]

Could you add a placeholder README to the jupyter-server/message_replay repo?

Done!

[Zsailer]

Thank you @blink1073!

[ivanov]

For anyone following along, here's the link: https://github.com/jupyter-server/message_replay