Welcome to the JMP Development Update for June 24, 2022!
JMP 17 Approval Mode is now underway. Thanks to everyone for continuing to triage open issues and ask approvals for critical problems! We are moving toward our freeze for JMP 17 EA9 on 7/8/22 and JMP 17 Code Freeze on 7/20/22.
I sent out a note earlier in the week with details about how to submit an approval request. In summary, please send a note to the JMP Approvers list, providing links to the code review (if in Swarm) and Jira issue. Please include a summary of the issue as well as thoughts on its impact to downstream teams. Here is a perfect example of an approval request that Evan McCorkle submitted today for a problem with JMP Search duplication. It provides all the required information and even a screenshot showing the impact of the change. Thanks as always, Evan, for your thorough work resolving this issue!
Fixes [JMP-13116] Searching on Data Table shows duplicates for column utilities and [JMP-13117] Deduplication of search details when doc starts with tooltip. Both of which deal with duplication of information in the results for JMP Search. Both bugs are pretty high profile, easy to find, and obviously “incorrect”. I was hoping to fix these two to avoid getting many copies of the same internal/customer feedback about the duplication. Code changes for both fixes are local to the JMP Search code and relatively small and low risk.
Completed review: http://jmpswarm.na.sas.com/reviews/610488/
Reviewed by Dan Schikore
No impact to L10N. Little impact on docs since results shown on the GUI may change. Though it may not be enough to warrant new screenshots if they are even affected. Little impact to testing because search results changed. I have rebaselined the search results unit tests within this shelf and the new results look good. Attached is a screenshot showing the effects of the changes on search results.
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Important Upcoming Dates
- JMP 17.0 EA9 – 7/8/22
- JMP 17 Code Freeze – 7/20/22
- Please visit Confluence for a full list of JMP 17 dates.
JMP Development Updates
Data Discovery
- Evan: Fixed long-standing issue with clearing the log breaking log syntax highlighting. Added action recording for Google Sheets import. Fixed user-reported crashes with deleted namespaces. Deduplicated some search results.
- Dave B: Fixed a marker seg/journal problem, partial fix for RangeSliderDisplay setting values, partial fix for tooltip appearing after the box has been hidden or moved, crash investigation.
- Dan S: Work on threading formula calculations for Marker Simulation with Evan and Luciano. Fix for auto-saving session files on Mac when there are unsaved documents. Fixed stream to text when radio boxes are grouped. Helped with layout updates for Easy DOE.
- Xan: Code reviews, testing, prepping for Discovery AP lightning talk, learning how to spell lightning.
DOE
- Peng: Continued working with Joseph and Ryan on Easy DOE. Fixed a couple of static analyzer warnings from my recent work. And thanks to John Schroedl, I have a better understanding about the move semantics now. Fixed a newly discovered crash, and thanks go to Dave Matthews and David Barbour for tracking the problem down and reviewing. Working with Bill Meeker on the upcoming Discovery talk. Responded to a few customer inquiries. Wrote up a respond to the posts about sales challenges in respond to the recent survey on supporting resources on reliability.
- Jacob: Focused on testing Easy DOE, interactively testing JMP Standard and writing unit tests for the Analyze tab.
- Brad: Gave a one hour JMP Day presentation on Modern DOE for Corning.
Host
- Bryan B: Restricted HTTP Request File/Files to only use the safe areas of the local file system. Prevented JMP Live refresh scripts from using:
- SAS Integration, Local Server
- Matlab
- R
- ODBC Text Driver
- ODBC Excel Driver
- ODBC Access Driver
- John Schroedl: Fixed Trial menu text issue. JMP Live publish script security discussions. Updated telemetry server code to accept xml as well as zip formats.
- Daniel Powell: Investigating how JMP interfaces with Python and considering ways to improve how we work with Anaconda python in future versions.
HTML5
- Mayowa: Worked on fixes for bugs related with selecting and highlighting box plots with shortest half set ( (JMPHTML-1512, JMPHTML-1510),, worked on resolving bug with box plot caption displaying horizontally rather than vertically when we add the 5 number summary and export to Interactive HTML on Mac (JMPHTML-1436), worked on fix for bugs with interactive html not supporting box plot width proportion properly (JMPHTML-1265, JMPHTML-1150), did some refactoring for box plot drawing code.
- John Powell: Triaged bugs and deferred Minor bugs to JMP 17.1. Shelved a fix for Jittered markers in Oneway due to uncertain risk. Fixed a Crash when publishing a Control Chart with an unsupported Column Switcher setup to JMP Live (WEBJMP-5607). Prework for Situational Leadership class. Supplied content for a blog on JMP Live 17 that Arati is putting together.
JMP Live
- Michael G: Make refresh scripts opt-in for security reasons, by blocking regular users from editing data admin access on personal spaces. It requires a sys admin or global space admin to grant access to refresh scripts on personal spaces now in the client. Lots of bug fixing before approval mode. Working with Susan to help address documentation questions. Starting to explore 3rd party package upgrades for 17.1 / 18.0
Statistics
- Laura C-S: Fixed a few remaining bugs in SEM, prepared and submitted a presentation for Discovery Japan, prepared and recorded a lightning presentation of SEM new features for Discovery AP. Read up on moderated mediation models in SEM.
Stat Documentation
- Michael C: Continued work on documenting new features, including in SEM, Standard Least Squares, GLMM, and Repeated Measures Degradation; added items to the New Feature document; updated doc team reports to run in JMP on a virtual machine following DEFECTS server retirement.
- Karen: Working on DOE chapters. Updating screen shots, updating examples, rearranging material, and addressing general DOE 17.0 updates.
- Colleen: Working a lot on the NF doc again this week. Updated the doc for some Jira bugs and reviewed some material that Michael has written.
Stat Testing
- Mark B: Designing Easy DOE with Brad, Joseph, and Ryan. Testing Easy DOE with Jacob. Finishing presentation for JMP Discovery Summit with Jianfeng before recording. Answering questions in JMP Community.
Product Management
- Bryan F:
- Training: Attended 4 NN/g classes: Usability Testing, Lean UX, The One-Person UX Team, How to Interpret UX Numbers: Statistics for UX on Friday. It’s been so informative and I look forward to leveraging the learning.
- Red Triangle Menus: Coordinated with John Schroedl on fixing misaligned red triangles on Windows; however, testing revealed some unexpected results so the plan is to wait to make a change until JMP 17.1.
- Text Alignment Icons: Completed delivery on both Mac and Windows of icons. Provided feedback to Andrew Vitkus on a few issues with the use of the text alignment icons and reviewed his changes.
- Dark Table Headers and Cells: Modified how dark table headers and cells are drawn to be lighter (http://jmpswarm.na.sas.com/reviews/609823) based on the findings of a preference test (https://app.usabilityhub.com/tests/43b81395bac3/results/15a98f5ed9f5).
- Genetic Marker Icons: Delivered light and dark icons (Mac only) for both marker simulation and marker statistics.
- Presentation Layer UX Workstream: Provided update on minor stylistic changes being made to JMP 17 as well as John approving of change to disclosure icon for JMP 18.
Technical Support
- Duane: Going through our regional JMP support sites to clean up references to SAS and SAS telephone numbers, and my team continues to work with John Jones and team with regards to the My JMP portal.
Development Operations
- Jim: Reported Jira entries from the most recent LEAKS and UBSAN runs. Processing UT machine upgrades (for both JMP 17.1 and 18.0) in preparation for upcoming Main Perforce branch date. Preparing for final JMP 17.0 EA. Met with stakeholders about the migration/storage of daily builds stored on JMPSRV01, especially prior to nights when JMP 17.0, 17.1 and 18.0 will all be dumping assets to the server.
- Bob: Worked on modified retention policy for executable and installer nightly builds. Worked on Portal area of nightly installers to eventually take place of Software Depot. Added JMP installers to the nightly inventory of the OneDrive synced installer set.
Localization
- Angelita: Sample data kits delivered to translation; JMP Live ZH review processed; begin processing projects returned from translation this week.
- Howard: Finish Jenkins job for TOTD; Scoping out changes needed to monitor query system; test kit for JMP Live messages_en.properties for Chris Humphrey; completed development for job to move New Features source to l10nsource area.
- Melanie: Validations & updates to sample data kits; met with Legal regarding copyright for Builtins XLF files; validated job to move New Features source to l10nsource area;
- Sandy: Enjoying vacation this week.
- Trish: Project mgmt. L10N schedule, projects & Jira updates; postponed handoff of New Features doc to translation until decision is made regarding Easy DOE; returned from translation: MDC & QRC, DJ/SharedTextInsets, TOTD.
- JMPLoc Jiras closed this week; Updates to JMPLoc Project Jiras this week.
Documentation
- Susan C: Updating the JMP Live/Public end user and admin help. A huge thank you to Michael Goff who answered hundreds of questions, and to Josh LoPresti, who, went above and beyond on Saturday during the maintenance outage when my JMP Live doc server wouldn’t work to get me access to a working server. I appreciate ya’ll a LOT. Thanks in large part to all that help I received, I was able to get the JMP Live/Public/admin help out for review today. Feedback is due by July 1st. Worked on the HTML5 help, and John P has kindly agreed to review it while I’m out next week. I have sent him a review PDF to do an initial pass. We will send the content out to the larger HTML5 group for review during the week of July 4th.
- Qiana: This week I updated the copyright info and logo in UG, AR, and DG docs. Met with legal to discuss copyright info in builtin files. Worked on New Features items pertaining to the UG.
- Chris B: Writing up the new JSL features for "New Features in JMP 17".
System/Host Testing-Cary
- Mandy: Created a Workflow builder recording script with Powerpoint presentation along with a short 5 min demo for the AP folks. Worked on my PPP Loan fraud data for WFB Discovery paper and demo for dev meeting on July 14th. Lisa Grossman is working with me to generate some interesting graphs for the paper that casually highlight new features for GB and the Tabulate Pack columns feature. Finished WFB blog and passed that to Arati and Sara D. for edits and integration with a short video. Verifying all JIRA’s and finishing paper and demo this week. After that, will add a few more WFB test to my JSL framework tests.
- Mike M: Had a great discussion with Chris Barrett (Welcome to JMP!!) about Help docs, publishing, getting to these docs via JMP. Need to update my JMP Help ‘noindex’ tests based on this great exchange of information! Opened a bug on Explore Patterns for requiring a wait() statement to accept some platform JSL messages. Reviewed larger HTML5 vs. JMP image differences with John Powell and found a couple more bugs I will open. Good discussion with Ernest on WFB. Writing Sikuli tests to cover the basic interactive scenarios. Curating unstable images list for image tests after Bryan Fricke’s Table Header and Cell shading update. Reviewed Mandy’s excellent blog on WFB.
- Lisa G: Worked on a couple of EA tracks, continued building script to get Jira tickets into Defects Dashboard report, and looked at PPP loans data to build some visualizations with Mandy for her Discovery paper.
- Hunter: Investigated two JMP 17 EA 8 tracks (one crash and one feature request), verifications, and installed Ventura 13.0 Beta 2 on MDA692 in the lab and ran tests.
- Josh: 3rd weekend outage was a lot of fun for the folks that wanted to test JMP Live over the weekend. I deployed a 2 server environment in AWS for those that really needed to get caught up with things. Most of the systems came back on Monday - just had 1 or 2 machines that needed attention. Reviewing and Approving JMP Live Bugs. JMP Live Jira Story and Bug verification.
- Beijing / Cary JMP Live Testing Jira Status
- 04 Stories in Testing
- 83 Stories in Test Ready
- 07 Bugs Created in the last 7 days.
- 61 Stories / Bugs Closed in the last 7 days
System/Host Testing-Beijing
- Eric Wang: (1) Cleaning up JMP Live Jira stories/bugs, focusing on JSL related items. (2) Updating JMP Live JSL unit tests due to bug fix and behavior changes. (3) Learning the background of the security issues of refresh script.
- Da Li: (1) Working on JMP and JMP Live Jira stories/bugs. For JMP Live, focus on client(Space, Post Details, Sharing) components and Post-Download-Server. (2) Update goals and summary for Q2 performance. (3) Prepare for the 3rd party software testing, see JMPTESTBJ-1666.
- Mike Wu: (1) Working on JMP Jira stories/bugs. (2) Investigated Technical support issues: Case Number 00007485, Case Number 00007779, Case Number 00008193.
- Kimi: (1) Tested [WEBJMP-3323] Front-end UI for Data Table Viewer (2) Working on JMP Jira stories/bugs which are related Data Viewer, Data-Client, Scheduling – Client, Posts - Download – Client. (2) Investigated JSL UT failures. (3) Prepare for the 3rd party software testing, see JMPTESTBJ-1666 . (4) Working on add debug mode for UT Testing on Jenkins.
- Nala: (1) Working on JMP Jira stories/bugs. (2) Testing https://rndjira.sas.com/browse/JMP-8462 (3) Korean SE IkJu Shin reported some JMP preferences cannot be remembered after switching JMP language, see Case Number 00008061. This is a known issue and has been fixed by JMP-12221 . Helped IkJu to look into the issue in daily build. And IkJu has confirmed that the problem he reported cannot be reproduced in JMP Pro 17 (2022.06.16).
- JMP Jira: 5 Bugs / Stories created ( Link ), 17 Bugs / Stories verified ( Link), 3 Bugs / Stories reopen
- JMP Live Jira: 21 Bugs / Stories created ( Link ), 55 Bugs / Stories verified ( Link )
Note from Shannon
Most people have now heard the news that the conservative supermajority on the US Supreme Court today struck down the 1973 Roe vs. Wade decision that upheld the right to an abortion (NPR story here). Whatever your personal views on this decision, it is a historic one with immediate implications for people across this country.
In our democracy, you have the right to reach out to your elected government officials to make your thoughts and opinions known on this and other political topics. You have the right to praise your representatives’ reactions and statements on the decision (if you agree with them) or tell them so if you disagree. Regardless of your stance on Roe, you can tell your elected representative whether you want them to support legislation that provides resources and assistance to parents in the event of an unplanned pregnancy. You have a voice in our democracy – never hesitate to use it!
