Welcome to the JMP Development Update for December 16, 2022!
I know that many people will be heading out over the next week for a well-deserved vacation. FYI that over the winter break, JMP desktop CI builds for Mac and Win and the associated auto-integration project for 18.0 will continue to run. However, Jim plans to disable nightly builds and unit test runs on Christmas Eve and will turn them back on just prior to our return to the office.
JMP 17.1 Doc Freeze is happening at the end of the business day on Wednesday, 12/21/22. Please be aware that this means that JMP doc teams will not be able to make any doc updates related to 17.1 bug fixes integrated after that point. Any changes made after 12/21/22 that impact the doc will have to wait for JMP 18.0 doc work to begin. Similarly, the L10N team has already handed off translations for 17.1 so strings that have been extracted or edited since 17.1 string handoff will appear in English in 17.1 and will be translated during the 17.2 cycle.
We plan to begin Code Approval Mode for JMP 17.1 at the end of the day on 1/6/23, and freeze code for 17.1 on 1/27/23. Please see the Outlook reminder I sent out for details about Approval Mode or see this page about Approval Mode in Confluence for more details.
Finally, thanks to Audrey Shull for sharing the following Jira Tips of the Week! Since we’ve moved into our new cloud instance of Jira, we’ve had much more flexibility to think through changes and improve our project setup and how we collect data about our work. The following items are minor tweaks that we hope will have a big impact, and we’re looking forward to making more improvements in the New Year!
- The Origin of issues is becoming an important thing for JMP to track. Please start filling out this field when you enter or edit issues and pin it so it’s easy to find! See this useful How-To page about the current values (thanks, Shannon). Note that Jira admins will discuss updating the values that appear for Origin and might even make this a required field for the JMP project in the future.
- Have you started using the new Planned Version field yet? Remember that you can use this field to indicate intent to fix instead of adding an :OPEN tag to versions in the Fix Versions field. If you populate Planned Version to indicate the version where you intend to fix an item, simply leave Fix Versions blank and once a fix is pushed, you can add the plain version number to Fix Versions (e.g., 18.0).
General Announcements
- If you’re willing to be a featured employee on Inside JMP, please download a copy of the Get to Know form. Simply fill out the questions and when you’re done, upload it, along with 3 photos of you to the folder. Thank you for helping to make our JMP family a little more familiar!
Important Upcoming Dates
- JMP 17.1 Doc Freeze – 12/21/22
- JMP 17.1 Code Approval Starts – 1/6/23
- JMP 17.1 L10N Freeze – 1/16/23
- JMP 17.1 Code Freeze – 1/27/23
- JMP 18 EA1 Freeze – 2/3/23
- JMP 18 EA2 Freeze – 4/7/23
- Please visit Confluence for a full list of JMP 17 and JMP 18 dates.
JMP Development Updates
Statistics
- John Sall: Fit Group's Profiler now supports categorical responses - for 17.1 and 18.0. (JMP-14877) Fit Group's Profiler now supports showing the Creators if the option is turned on - for 18.0. (JMP-14958) This picture shows both.
- LauraC-S: Continued working on correction for SEM standard errors for non-normal data. Answered a professor’s question about “formative assessment” in SEM. Finished product security training. Continued work on a correction for standard errors in SEM. The numbers are now correct but have remaining work on the UI implementation.
Stat Documentation
- Karen: Other than enjoying lots of early December snow, this week I wrapped up my 17.1 items and am ready for doc freeze.
- Michael C: Making final updates to documentation before next week’s 17.1 doc freeze.
Stat Testing
- Jacob: Developing a tool that can automate writing a usability study script. Verifying Jira tickets and cleaning unit tests. Adding performance tests for the Optimize button in Easy DOE.
- Tonya: Jira triage/cleanup. Unit test cleanup. Bug verification.
Product Management
- Bryan F: Completed update to JMP 17 VPATs and sent them to Greg Kraus for publication. Met with UserInterviews to discuss plans and pricing, researched more usability testing platforms and conducted an experimental user study for the bivariate platform using Lookback, and also met with JMP Development Workstream and documented action items and outcomes. Met with multiple developers to discuss various design issues.
Technical Support
Development Operations
- Shannon: Completed security training. Crash investigations. Populating Origin field in existing crash Jira issues.
- Myron: Worked on help builds for 17.1 and 17.0, JiraBot updates to owners file, and Mac crash symbolizer issues.
- Jim: JMPTOOL-663 and Perforce support.
Documentation
- ChrisB: Think I figured out the problem with equations displaying garbled in PDFs in Preview on the Mac -- just have to figure out how to apply the font fix to the help-pdf-builds machine.
- Susan: JMP Live & JMP doc Jiras for 17.1, and updated templates for JMP Live & JMP EN help for 17.
- Qiana: Worked on 17.1 Jiras. Performed project planning for 17.1. Preparation for Doc Freeze.
System/Host Testing-Cary
- Anna: Interactive testing - Published reports to JMP Live: Consumer Research platforms Categorical, Choice & MaxDiff, Oneway, Graph Builder Maps with transform columns, missing values and data filters. Reported Open in JMP crash for Choice report. Tested Xan’s fix for Graph Builder Overlay crash w/RowState column. Verified fixes in nightly builds.
- Mandy: Mostly worked on some workflow stuff for JMP 18 – in the process of trying to add a few JSL tests there for new additions to WF. Verifying doc JIRAs. Worked a bit on a tabulate test build for crashes for 17.1. Testing Data filter changes. Cleaning up tasks/notes/scripts/etc for end of the year.
- Josh: JMP Live 17.1 installer language testing and helping identifying upgrade issues. JMP Live install call with Intel to resolve some of their deployment issues. Tester build / install questions / AWS deployment questions. JMP Live Jira bug and story verifications. Various changes to the JMP Live auto installer scripts for JMP Live 17.1 and 18.0 due to changes to the JMP Live installer.
- Mike M: Trying to recreate Formula Editor crash from Mike Anderson, updated several Sikuli tests for JMP 18 menu changes. Got to brainstorm with Evan on trying to expand the GUI interactions available in JSL! Many thanks and kudos to Evan for working on this. The hope is to reduce dependence on Sikuli for more routine UI actions (clicking, drag-drop, context click/select, LRT click/select, etc).
- Audrey: Matlab M1 testing, finishing Q4 conversations with staff, updated our Serial Numbers page with fresh numbers for the new year, a little Jira research, maintenance for Jenkins jobs, finish setting up my new PC.
System/Host Testing-Beijing
- Da Li: (1) Verify JMP Live stories/bugs, which are related to client and module (2) Investigated JMP Live Migration tests failures. It is caused by WEBJMP-5932. (3) Completed work summary for 2022. (4) 2022 performance goals have been updated in Workday.
- Kimi: (1) Verify JMP Live and JMP Desktop stories/bugs. (2) Jenkins: Add JMeter Load Testing in UT Beijing Env. Set up a JMP Live 18.0 Server on AWS. Debug the failure of JMP Live Migration with Da Li, modify the corresponding Jenkins script. (3) Completed work summary for 2022. (4) 2022 performance goals have been updated in Workday.
Data Discovery
- Dave B: Fixed two positioning problems with plotcol axis headers, fixed a problem with tooltips showing excluded rows, fixed a problem with tooltips not showing all the rows for a marker, fixed a couple of ui issues with the dialog for managing conditional numeric formats.
- Evan: Delivered a search field to the top of LRT menus and most context menus (depending on complexity). The look and feel of these search fields is still being adjusted a bit. Helping with some GUI test automation improvements.
- Dan S: Integrated Process History Explorer session/JMP Live fixes to 17.1. Fix nullptr in box properites. Fix image DPI issues at 17.1/18. Fix for tabulate pack cols.
- Ernest: Workflow Builder undo/redo fixes for tracking the dirty state. Columns viewer property editing.
- Xan: Security training complete! Also, 17.1 integrations and CRs.
DOE
- Brad: Reviewed papers for JQT and QREI - one was immediately accepted
Working on a discussion of a paper in QREI.
- Peng: Hit a road block on my side of the research with Bill Meeker. Working on it. Other than that, cleaned up several 17.1 items with the help from Caleb and Elizabeth.
Host
- Paul N: Map server is up and running and serving tiles; however, it is sluggish in rendering tiles at high zoom levels. I am in the process of pre-rendering tiles for the various zoom levels and trying to tweak the server configuration files for performance. In terms of network configuration, everything is still pointing to the current legacy map server as I am in the process of testing out JMP’s connection to the new map server, making sure configurations match the same calling convention that prior JMP versions used to call the server. Once it’s confirmed that JMP be served tiles from the new server, we can have the network configuration changed to point to the new machine.
- Michael: Added support for opening .xlsm files (Excel spreadsheet with macros) to Mac JMP to match the Windows JMP support. Upgraded the Mac JMP project file to use the C++20 language variant, matching Windows. Worked with Mayowa and Paul S to get the Template.html file (used as the template for all Interactive HTML reports) built and obfuscated on a Mac Release build, by changing how the obfuscation tool (terser) is invoked so that errors will halt the build and their diagnostics will appear on the build logs.
- Daniel: The new DEV and TEST VPCs have been fully configured and deployed in AWS for our JMP Activation System. This separation allows me to test greater security configurations without causing issues in our production environment!
HTML5
- Mike S: Completed the JMP New User Welcome Kit videos, and submitted a list of issues for fixing in the next update of the Kit. Completed the Acceptable Use of SAS Systems and Networks course. Did more setup of my Mac for development. Continued code familiarization.
- John Powell: Continued discussion about graph reordering and its effect on JMP Live (JMP-14895). Fixed a few hyperlinks to old Confluence. Planned for Whitebox testing. Reviewed Interactive HTML code refactoring work. Attended a JMP Live Git demo. Looked for patterns in handling linked subsets throughout our JavaScript code (JMPHTML-541).
- Praveena: Refactoring the source files loading in unit test, came across an Chrome browser specific issue, found the solution for it. Refactored Segment.js to adopt the class structure and updates the reference of segment in all other segments, unit test. Started refactoring Histogram segment to adopt the class structure.
- Paul Spychala: Working with the HTML team to upgrade more of our codebase to ES6 and beyond. Fixed an issue with the Mac nightly builds not building a working HTML Template.
JMP Live
- Aurora: For 17.1, fixed a bug that kept a user from moving around old reports that had "-N" suffixed IDs. For 18.0, finished removing known obsolete REST API routes. Miscellaneous: Working on Perforce --> Git change for JMP Live. Held two Git demos (for heavy and light users of the JMP Live repo).
Note from Shannon
Hope you all have a very happy holiday season and I’ll see you in the New Year! No update next week…
