jupyter-incubator/dashboards incorporation proposal

[parente]

Reopen of #17 which was accidentally merged

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This PR proposes graduating the dashboard layout extension from jupyter-incubator. Per the roadmap and discussion at the Spring '16 dev meeting, it does not include the other, related projects such as the dashboards server. (We'll follow-on with a proposal for that and others.)

cc'ing folks who commented on the original incubation proposal to start: @vinomaster @rgbkrk @ellisonbg @fperez @Carreau @lbustelo @lmeyerov @minrk @damianavila

[parente]

Adding @sccolbert and @blink1073 . As folks start working on things in Jupyter Lab to pull interactive outputs into separate views (proto-dashboards?), it would be good to get your thoughts on the format we adopted in the layout extension. We tried to keep it open enough to fit whatever layout and metadata folks might want to track in the future, but simple enough for us to get the basics going.

It's on the doc site here:

http://jupyter-dashboards-layout.readthedocs.io/en/latest/metadata.html

[parente]

Four month bump and topics for the dev meeting:

• Can we make a final decision about this proposal?
• Is the metadata (linked above) a reasonable starting point for dashboard layouts in Lab or do we need something totally different?
• What should we do with the related dashboards server project (which this proposal does not cover)?

/cc @DTAIEB @jasongrout

[rgbkrk]

I say bring it in and let people iterate. If we set a precedent of holding up the incubation projects we've failed at doing welcoming incubation.

[minrk]

dashboards repos have been moved to the Jupyter org.

[parente]

Thanks for doing this @minrk. For the record, the proposal covered only the https://github.com/jupyter-incubator/dashboards repo, not all the others (dashboards_bundler, dashboards_server, dashboards_setup) which were / are more experimental still.

[minrk]

@parente shoot, I misread the bullets in the description as including those repos, not excluding them. All the repos should be in the right place now.

[parente]

Not a problem. Thanks!