search

palewire / first-python-notebook-binder

A template for deploying "First Python Notebook" with Binder
http://www.firstpythonnotebook.org/
GNU General Public License v3.0
1 stars 1 forks source link

Using mybinder.org #1

Open betatim opened 4 years ago

betatim commented 4 years ago

Hey there,

some thoughts on using mybinder.org as a fallback for the course.

You can check the status, failure rates, etc on https://grafana.mybinder.org/d/3SpLQinmk/1-overview?orgId=1&refresh=1m and reach us on https://gitter.im/jupyterhub/binder

We usually operate with a limit of 100 per repo because no one reaches it and we think that we wouldn't notice if people did max out their allocation (occasionally). There are a few repos that are very popular for which we allow a higher cap (mostly from https://try.jupyter.org/).

I think bumping the limit for this repo to 130 or so would be Ok. Especially if it is for a one time kinda thing/special measures during corona. Courses every day, all day would be different because it would use a lot of resources that we'd ideally like to share amongst as many individuals as possible.

To make the experience of using mybinder.org smooth I'd suggest you create a tag in git for the version of the material you want to use. Then put that in the link that the badge uses. When you've accumulated "enough" changes move the tag to the latest commit. Using a tag means we don't end up re-re-re-re-building the repo every time a small change is made. This can be super annoying if you fix a typo last minute and then 150 people all have to wait for the image to be built.

I'll link to this post from https://github.com/jupyterhub/team-compass to see what the others behind mybinder.org think.

betatim commented 4 years ago

it is done https://github.com/jupyterhub/mybinder.org-deploy/pull/1391

If you choose to go with this, give us a heads up.