Fix data101 image, update readme/contributing

CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -79,6 +79,26 @@ git checkout -b <branch name>
 After you make your changes, you can use the following commands to see
 what's been modified and check out the diffs:  `git status` and `git diff`.
 
+### Building the image locally
+
+You should use [repo2-docker](https://repo2docker.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) to build and use/test the image on your own device before you push and create a PR.  It's better (and typically faster) to do this first before using CI/CD.  There's no need to waste Github Action minutes to test build images when you can do this on your own device!
+
+Run `repo2docker` from inside the cloned image repo.  To run on a linux/WSL2 linux shell:
+```
+repo2docker . # <--- the path to the repo
+```
+
+If you are using an ARM CPU (Apple M* silicon), you will need to run `jupyter-repo2docker` with the following arguments:
+
+```
+jupyter-repo2docker --user-id=1000 --user-name=jovyan \
+  --Repo2Docker.platform=linux/amd64 \
+  --target-repo-dir=/home/jovyan/.cache \
+  -e PLAYWRIGHT_BROWSERS_PATH=/srv/conda \
+  . # <--- the path to the repo
+```
+
+If you just want to see if the image builds, but not automatically launch the server, add `--no-run` to the arguments (before the final `.`).
 
 When you're ready to push these changes, first you'll need to stage them for a
 commit:

README.md

@@ -3,3 +3,24 @@
 This is the repository for the data101 datahub and local user images.
 
 See this repository's [CONTRIBUTING.md](https://github.com/berkeley-dsep-infra/data101-user-image/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md) for instructions. That information will eventually be migrated to docs.datahub.berkeley.edu.
+
+# building the image locally
+
+You should use [repo2-docker](https://repo2docker.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) to build and use/test the image on your own device before you push and create a PR.  It's better (and typically faster) to do this first before using CI/CD.  There's no need to waste Github Action minutes to test build images when you can do this on your own device!
+
+Run `repo2docker` from inside the cloned image repo.  To run on a linux/WSL2 linux shell:
+```
+repo2docker . # <--- the path to the repo
+```
+
+If you are using an ARM CPU (Apple M* silicon), you will need to run `jupyter-repo2docker` with the following arguments:
+
+```
+jupyter-repo2docker --user-id=1000 --user-name=jovyan \
+  --Repo2Docker.platform=linux/amd64 \
+  --target-repo-dir=/home/jovyan/.cache \
+  -e PLAYWRIGHT_BROWSERS_PATH=/srv/conda \
+  . # <--- the path to the repo
+```
+
+If you just want to see if the image builds, but not automatically launch the server, add `--no-run` to the arguments (before the final `.`).

environment.yml

@@ -61,14 +61,14 @@ dependencies:
 - pandocfilters==1.5.0
 - pep8==1.7.1
 - pgspecial==1.13.1
-- pillow==9.2.0
+- pillow==10.0.1 # sknapp 2024-09-05 had to unpin this version to fix build ==9.2.0
 - plotly==5.13.1
 - pooch==1.6.0
 - prettytable==3.4.1
 - pyarrow==9.0.0
 - pypdf2==2.10.4
 - pytables==3.7.0
-- pytest==7.1.2
+- pytest==8.3.2 # sknapp 2024-09-05 had to unpin this version to fix build ==7.1.2
 - pytest-cov==3.0.0
 - python-pdfkit==1.0.0
 - requests==2.28.2
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ dependencies:
 - sphinx-jupyterbook-latex==0.5.2
 - sqlparse==0.4.3
 - statsmodels==0.14.0
-- sympy==1.10.1
+- sympy==1.13.2 # sknapp 2024-09-05 had to unpin this version to fix build ==1.10.1
 - tornado==6.2.0
 - tqdm==4.64.0
 - xarray==2023.5.0