0.9.x version

[brichet]

There are currently 2 maintained versions of nbgrader

• 0.7.x with support for notebook<7 extensions on branch 0.7.x
• 0.8.x with support for notebook<7 and jupyterlab<4 extensions on branch main

There is also this draft PR to extend support to jupyterlab==4 and notebook==7. This PR grows until Jupyterlab 4 and Notebook 7 are released.

I propose here to stop development on 0.7.x version, since its features should be covered by 0.8.x version, and to start a new 0.9.x version to support the next versions of Jupyterlab and Notebook.

NOTE
It might be interesting to investigate a way to independently install the JupyterLab or Notebook extensions (and their dependencies) in version 0.8.x. Some people may still want to avoid the nodejs installation for the classic Notebook.

cc. @jhamrick @SylvainCorlay @jtpio

[jtpio]

Thanks @brichet for starting this discussion 👍

There is also this draft PR to extend support to jupyterlab==4 and notebook==7. This PR grows until Jupyterlab 4 and Notebook 7 are released.

Right, it would make sense to create a 0.8.x branch, and then target the next 0.9.x version on main directly. This would allow for merging this PR and be able to iterate on it more easily.

[brichet]

0.8.x branch is created.

The 0.8.x branch will keep compatibility with Jupyterlab 3.x and Notebook 6.x.

The main will be used for compatibility with Jupyterlab 4 and Notebook 7, and should release versions 0.9.x.

[Mad31]

Hi ?
a date for the release 9.X to have à jupyterlab 4 compatibility ?

[brichet]

A pre-release is out: https://github.com/jupyter/nbgrader/releases/tag/v0.9.0a0
It can be installed with pip install --pre nbgrader

[brichet]

No date for now, we have to wait for:

• Notebook 7 to be released, before the end of the month I believe.
• this PR to be reviewed and merged. Feel free to test it and comment it.

[jtpio]

Now that #1684 has been merged into main, we should be able to make the first 0.9.0a0 pre-release.

Ad it looks like the 0.8.x branch already exists 👍 https://github.com/jupyter/nbgrader/tree/0.8.x

[Mad31]

I've tried v0.9.0a0 👍

JupyterLab v4.0.3
/usr/local/share/jupyter/labextensions
        jupyterlab_pygments v0.2.2 enabled  X (python, jupyterlab_pygments)
        jupyterlab-myst v2.0.1 enabled OK (python, jupyterlab_myst)
        ipycanvas v0.13.1 enabled OK
        nbgrader v0.9.0-alpha.0 enabled  X (python, nbgrader)
        @jupyter-widgets/jupyterlab-manager v5.0.8 enabled OK (python, jupyterlab_widgets)
        @jupyterlab/latex v3.1.0 enabled  X (python, jupyterlab-latex)

but

The following extensions are outdated:
        jupyterlab_pygments
        nbgrader
        @jupyterlab/latex

and i can't disable extension 'formgrader' for example for student

[brichet]

Thanks for the feedback.
Can you open an issue about that ?

[trevorcampbell]

@brichet @jtpio any chance we can get a few of the outstanding bugfix PRs included in 0.9.0? These would be a big improvement in using nbgrader in larger classes... I'm specifically thinking of #1770, but @tuncbkose and some others have a few open PRs that seem like they'd be helpful as well.

I would be happy to contribute any testing effort needed, with a bit of guidance.

( I also have the two autotest PRs out #1650 and #1656, and we've been using that code very successfully in our class for a few semesters now. But I imagine those will involve a biiiit more work to merge :-) )

[trevorcampbell]

(hopefully this is the right place to discuss that -- I couldn't really tell if the 0.9.x thread was for discussing a new 0.9.0 release or something else -- apologies if not!)

[brichet]

Hey @trevorcampbell.
Version 0.9.0 focuses mainly on compatibility with Jupyterlab 4 and Notebook 7.
Nevertheless, I agree that some enhancement and bugfix PRs should be reviewed and merged. It seems that few maintainers are able to spend time on nbgrader at the moment.

I hope to be able to take a look at these PRs in a few weeks (I won't be available before then).

[SylvainCorlay]

Following today's discussion, we should probably make another pre-release of nbgrader 0.9 that uses Notebook 7 final instead of the release candidate.

[brichet]

I opened #1805

[brichet]

It's out: https://github.com/jupyter/nbgrader/releases/tag/v0.9.0a1

[lahwaacz]

I have selectively disabled all nbgrader lab extensions and server extensions, but the Nbgrader context menu in JupyterLab still has active buttons:

Notice that only "Create assignment" is grayed out. Shouldn't the other be the same?

My ~/.jupyter/labconfig/page_config.json contains:

{
  "disabledExtensions": {
    "nbgrader/formgrader": true,
    "nbgrader/assignment-list": true,
    "nbgrader/course-list": true,
    "nbgrader/create-assignment": true,
    "nbgrader/validate-assignment": true
  }
}

Then ~/.jupyter/jupyter_server_config.d/ contains four .json files that disable the corresponding server extensions, but this is not relevant since this is the JupyterLab interface.

[lahwaacz]

I managed to figure out this issue. The problem is that the documentation is wrong about the labextension plugin IDs in many places: it's not nbgrader/assignment-list or even nbgrader/assignment_list, but nbgrader:assignment-list, and similar for the others. This is pretty insidious since running jupyter labextension disable with the wrong plugin ID does not result in error and jupyter labextension list also does not help (it lists only nbgrader unless some of its labextensions is already disabled). I submitted #1811 with a fix.

[trevorcampbell]

@brichet I have been working on rebasing our AutoTest PR on 0.9.x, and I ran into this (minor) issue #1814 with the current main branch that was introduced recently. I've made a PR to fix it #1815 . Very minor change. Also, perhaps you want to del the unused args as well.

[trevorcampbell]

@brichet another possibly relevant issue: #1816 . The CI on ui-tests looks like it's passing, but the logs contain many uncaught errors (mostly 404 / file not found, but a few "unwriteable directory" etc as well).

[trevorcampbell]

After digging into it a little bit more, these errors have been appearing in the ui-tests for a very long time (at least as far back as GitHub maintains action logs).

It looks related to the setup of the test directory / when the nbgrader config file is loaded... things aren't in the right place, and nbgrader isn't respecting the nb_exchange_test directory that gets created in beforeEach here. It's trying to use the exchange at /usr/local/share/nbgrader/exchange.

Unfortunately I don't know enough about javascript / galata to help fix the issue...

[trevorcampbell]

The new AutoTest code is ready and compatible with 0.9.x (available here https://github.com/ubc-dsci/nbgrader/tree/autotest-0.9.x ). This branch supercedes the current open PR at #1650 , which was too out of date to rebase without a lot of headache.

It passes all tests except ui-tests. I don't make any modifications to the UI, but ui-tests runs generate_assignment which triggers AutoTest. I don't think I'll be able to figure the rest out until the above issues in ui-tests are handled.

[trevorcampbell]

I decided just to remove the new notebooks from the UI tests to avoid triggering AutoTest there. AutoTest doesn't have anything to do with the UI, so I don't think this needs to be included in those tests anyway.

PR opened at #1817