Reflections on my Progress

When we first developed our timeline, we were conservative in our estimate of how many issues we could tackle within Jupyter Notebook. We noticed that bugs in the project get fixed very quickly, so we were worried bugs we worked on would be finished by someone else. We are now ahead of schedule because of this.  For our next task, we have decided to tackle adding a file upload activity indicator:

https://github.com/jupyter/notebook/issues/3139

Right now, the user does not get any feedback when they are uploading a file. The user has no way of knowing the program is doing what its supposed to. Our task is to add this feedback. We have discussed a few different approaches to accomplish this. One approach is a loading bar. This would provide the most feedback to the user since they would get a visual of the progress the program is making. However, this would be difficult for us to implement due to the involvement of graphics and our lack of knowledge of the components that upload the files. We would have to find or create the graphics to create a loading bar. We would have to thoroughly understand the process the program goes through to upload files to be able to properly represent its progress visually. Because of these foreseen difficulties, this will not be our first approach. Instead will will start with a simple text box message that appears when the file starts uploading and disappears when its finished.