Welcome to the JMP Development Update for July 22, 2022!
This week, we reached our JMP 17.0 Code Freeze milestone. As Jon Weisz and John Sall noted in the mid-year webcast on Thursday morning, the JMP, JMP Pro and JMP Live releases for 17 are a big deal. There is something in there for every customer, from our newest newbie to our most sophisticated long-term user. JMP Clinical will follow a month later with its first ever JMP-only release with improved performance and a much better installation experience. You can review Midyear content on Inside JMP, including this article on 20 Things Learned at Americas Midyear 2022.
Thanks very much to Jim Borek for creating our new release branches and testing various builds post-freeze! Jim says that he very much appreciated the help John Schroedl provided during the transition to using Visual Studio 2022 for JMP 18.0 work on Windows. Jim was very grateful for all the help that John and Michael Hecht provided troubleshooting various build and signing issues encountered during this transition. Thanks, all, for the teamwork! A release border is a comparatively good time for software updates like the VS 2022 migration, but it certainly added some complexities to a process with many moving parts from branches to builds to the configuration of numerous VMs and physical machines.
After automated nightly builds for our three ongoing releases ran successfully yesterday evening, Bob Hickey and Jim turned their attention to finalizing installer and unit test setups for the new releases. Nick Ruva has also been busy today enabling various Jenkins projects for continuous integration and auto integration processes that he set up earlier in the week in anticipation of branching 17.1 and 18.0.
Just a reminder that as we move into this busy period with three branches running simultaneously - we treat these releases differently and the process for pushing code to each one is a bit different. Here’s an overview in case you’re new to the process or have forgotten in the many months where we had only one release to worry about! If you have questions, please let me know. If I don’t know the answer, I will try to find someone who does.
- Stop light: 17.0.
- JMP 17 source code is frozen. Auto-integration from main à 17.0 is disabled.
- If a potential showstopper bug is found that impacts 17.0 source, development directors and product management will scrutinize the problem closely and evaluate its seriousness and potential to delay the release.
- If you think you have found a showstopper issue in 17.0, please discuss it with the appropriate development and testing managers before requesting approval. If together you determine that the problem merits a request for approval, please follow our standard approval process. If an approver has questions about the fix, approvers and the developer will meet to discuss the fix.
- Doc and L10 teams continue to work to finalize 17.0 in anticipation of their own upcoming freeze dates. Testing teams continue verification work.
- Blinking yellow light: 17.1.
- The scope of this release includes bug fixes and some minor features that were not ready or could not be tested in time for 17.0. Developers are required to request and obtain a code review before integrating fixes into the 17.1 track. There is no source auto-integration project for main à17.1 since most changes in main are not destined for the 17.1 branch. We have several months before we get to JMP 17.1 Code Approval Mode.
- Doc and L10N teams will not begin working on 17.1 for some months. We will not begin to run Stringbot on 17.1 until the L10N team has completed all work on 17.0 projects.
- Green light: 18.0.
- Auto-integration from main à 18.0 is turned on for pushes of new features and bug fixes. Developers often push fixes to main and wait for testing to evaluate the fix before considering integration to 17.1. Code reviews by peer developers are always encouraged but are not required at this point in the cycle.
- Doc and L10N teams will not begin working on 18.0 content for many months. We will not run Stringbot on 18.0 until the L10N team determines it is appropriate to do so. The JMP 18 EA program will not begin for ~6 months or so.
While we did not meet this week as a dev group, we will meet for the next two Thursdays (7/28 and 8/4) to hear about what our JMP interns have been up to this summer. I’ll send out the meeting invites early next week with the full schedules. Thanks to our interns for volunteering to share, and thanks to Audrey Shull for coordinating the schedule!
General Announcements
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Important Upcoming Dates
- JMP 17 Doc Freeze – 8/2/22
- JMP 17 Help Freeze – 8/9/22
- JMP 17 L10N Freeze – 8/12/22
- JMP 17 Localized PDF Freeze 8/16/22
- First JMP 17 Final Installer Candidate – 8/23/22
- Please visit Confluence for a full list of JMP 17 dates.
JMP Development Updates
- Please visit this page to view bug verification lists for JMP 17.0.
Development Operations
- Jim: Last minute preparation of the new Windows and Macintosh build machines with Visual Studio 2022, digital signing software, node.js, etc. Preparing the maintenance UT machines with Python, ODBC drivers, MATLAB, R, etc. Installers/updaters and unit tests runs to come.
- Bob: Worked on windows installer code for 18.0 and 17.1 branches. Created Excel Addin installer and uninstaller scripts for QA to simulate what the main installer does. Update table work and testing with John Schroedl and Daniel Powell.
- Myron: Crash system testing and fixes for Sirius emails and duplicated comments in ServiceCloud. Troubleshooting for JMP help creation process.
- Nick: Set up various Jenkins projects for JMP 17.1 and 18.0 continuous integration and auto-integration of various deliverables. Updated compiler versions for Windows for JMP 18.0.
- Shannon: Attended midyear virtual meetings. Testing for crash results from ServiceCloud. Verified Jenkins project updates for 17.1 and 18.0. Help key investigations. Discussion of Jira triage with Mia.
Localization
- Localization Team: Remaining JMP Live Software Translations complete and pushed to P4. JMP Live and HTML5 Online help delivered to translation. New features delivered to translation. Doc/Localization Team monthly team meeting held Friday. Ongoing evaluation of automation projects; Menu Description Card translations being finalized.
Documentation
- Susan: Created color-coded JMP Live/Public PDF for Melanie. Created Workflow Builder chapter for Karen and moved content into that chapter from the Save/Share chapter. Created a Frame book for Genetics for Tom, including all necessary files. Production checked all books and generated EA9 redo help. Created copies of JMP Live/Public/HTML5 templates in Perforce and updated English versions of Page.asp files. Added missing JMP Live/Public images to Perforce, also troubleshooting some TOTD image discrepancies. Investigated issue with new para tags not appearing in help and provided some input to proceed. Assisting with troubleshooting missing JMP Live publish help keys.
- Qiana: Attended the All JMP Leadership Meeting and JMP H1 Update. Attended the “The 5 Choices to Extraordinary Productivity” course. Attended the monthly meeting with L10N. Continue working on the UG doc. Spent time troubleshooting various doc-related issues.
System/Host Testing-Cary
- Mandy: Working on revising my Workflow Builder Journal and Discovery project and powerpoint, practicing in preparation for video recording next Wednesday. Set up Perforce branches for Main, 17.0 and 17.1 after Jim did his magic. Answered a few TS tracks and verified a couple of JIRA’s. Next week, after recording, will start taking LMS security modules.
- Hunter: Investigated one JMP 17 EA 9 track (a search result issue), tried to reproduce a project crash I encountered saving to OneDrive, verifications, and installed Ventura 13.0 Beta 3 on MDA692 in the lab and ran tests.
- Audrey: Testing JMP 17.0 with the latest version of Matlab (2022a), prep for end-of-release testing tasks.
- Josh: Finishing up story and bug testing. Answering various JMP Live questions. Working on regression of JMP Live.
- Beijing / Cary JMP Live Testing Jira Status
- 00 Stories in Testing
- 05 Stories in Test Ready
- 09 Bugs Created in the last 7 days.
- 67 Stories / Bugs Closed in the last 7 days
System/Host Testing-Beijing
- Eric Wang: (1) Tested sending multiple HTTP request via JSL. (2) Tested promise in HTTP request. (3) Added unit tests for multiple HTTP requests and promise, which invoking JMP Live RESTAPI. (4) Stories/bugs verification.
- Da Li: (1) Stories/bugs verification for Dashboard, Posts-Download, Access Control and Publish-JMP. (2) TS report investigation Case Number 00009418.
- Mike Wu: (1) Tested regression issue JMP-11780. It got FIXED for Intel Mac now, and M1 Mac would remaining the initial issue due to the ActualTech vendor Oracle ODBC driver issue. (3) Sanity check for the upgraded Citrix testing environment. (4) TS report investigation Case Number 00009302.
- Kimi: (1) Check Python integration tests because the Python version has been upgraded in the nightly run JSL UT framework. (2) Investigated JSL UT failures. (3) Jenkins related issues. (4) Stories/bugs verification. (5) Update confluence page under Beijing team JSL Unit Tests Framework
- Nala: (1) Stories/bugs verification. (2) Beijing team got some issues when accessing Concur and OTL systems. Working with IT group to resolve the issues.
- JMP Jira: 3 Bugs / Stories created ( Link ), 22 Bugs / Stories verified ( Link)
- JMP Live Jira: 11 Bugs / Stories created ( Link ), 46 Bugs / Stories verified ( link )
Data Discovery
- Ernest: Workflow builder: adding support for conditionals, better handling of recording platform reports, and facilitating use of report annotations.
- Evan: Adding scripting and action recorder support for Labels to Codes and Codes to Labels.
- Xan: Spline smoother tuning for group size differences.
DOE
- Peng: Prepared and presented the lightning update for the DOE & Reliability team on behalf of Ryan Lekivetz. Reviewed a chapter on Time Series in Fundamentals of Predictive Analytics with JMP for SAS EDU Marketing. Finished all Product Security Training courses.
- Caleb: Fixed two last minute sample size explorer bugs before code freeze. Ryan and I also started work on writing up a joint paper with Sky on a Wildtrack project.
- Brad: Finishing up my JMP Discovery talk. I'll do the video presentation on Monday.
Host
- Michael H: Worked with Jim to enable code-signing of the Mac JMP 18.0 Release build. Fixed a visual glitch in Multiple File Import on macOS Big Sur. Fixed an issue with the Mac font picker, reported by an EA tester. Fixed outstanding static analyzer issues for JMP 17.0 release.
- John Schroedl: Visual Studio 2022 transition and lending a hand with the branching effort. Helped investigate a ‘Check for Updates’ problem. Created telemetry docs for Myron and moving much of that into Confluence.
- Paul N: Closing out JMP 17.0 security tickets. Setup JMP 18.0 job for blackduck scanning. Installed Visual Studio 2022. Working on the removal of the old stale JMPINTRO code, rather than push late Friday afternoon, I’ll wait until early next week. It’s a lot of files touched. (JMP-10618)
HTML5
- Paul S: Spent doing more STIPS training, and researching issues that got pushed to 18.0.
JMP Live
- Michael G: Bug fixes, 3rd party package updates and space warnings feed are waiting for branch to merge. I have a shelf to hopefully fix our test memory leak on CI build. Working on Discovery presentation with Aurora.
Statistics
- Laura C-S: Answered to a few posts in the community about SEM. Provided feedback to Haley regarding her add-in, presentation, and blog post. Worked with Gail and Ross Metusalem in a title and description for an SEM tutorial. Continued working on a multiple-group analysis blog post. Updating Visual Studio.
- Elizabeth: Answering some GLMM and Mixed questions for SEs, Education, and other coworkers. Getting VS2022 up and running (thanks for the great instructions, John Schroedl!). Tracking the last niggling pieces of estimation code that need weight information included to enable weights in Mixed; the current results are so close but not quite…
- John Sall: Fixed leverage plots for Fit Least Squares REML, with Chris Gotwalt, integrated into 17.0 and 17.1 (JMP-13437).
Stat Documentation
- Karen: Writing a new chapter to document the Workflow Builder.
Stat Testing
- Jacob: Testing Easy DOE, verifying recent fixes for 17.0 and writing unit tests for the Report tab. Testing a fix for the Leverage Plot in Fit Model REML (JMP-13437).
Note from Shannon
It’s been a very busy week for most of us. I hope that you all have a chance to enjoy some relaxation this weekend!
