Feature request: open a notebook without running kernel
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- Jupyter Notebook
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Description
We are working with notebooks which use PySpark kernel. Very often we need just to look inside the notebook, but we don't need to run it. But if I click on the notebook, it starts a kernel as well, but PySpark kernel is very heavy and it consumes resources: after waiting for several minutes until the notebook starts, I am doing "shutdown kernel".
It would be very fine if there was a button in the notebook list "View without running kernel".
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Research direction
Start with the notebook list and the notebook-opening flow described in the issue. Determine how opening a notebook currently starts its kernel and where a view-only choice could be exposed. Done means users can inspect a notebook without starting the PySpark kernel, while normal notebook execution remains available.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- jupyter-notebook, spark
- Domain
- frontend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100