Welcome to the JMP Development Update for January 6, 2023!
In important release news, we have now reached our JMP 17.1 Code Approval milestone. As I mentioned in this morning’s email, logic changes in JMP code made after this date will require approval by 4 people on the JMP Approvers list. Please see the JMP Code Approval Mode Confluence page for full details about this time in the release cycle. We’ll continue approval mode until we reach JMP 17.1 Code Freeze on 1/27/23.
As we look ahead to the start of the JMP 18 Early Adopter program planned to kick off in February, JMP product manager Bryan Fricke has offered to present (with dev team collaborators) on a UX process they have been using together to gather input on new features. Various teams have already taken advantage of this process to improve features under development, and you too can leverage it to learn about and optimize your JMP 18 features! A reminder that we’ll start the dev meeting at 10:30 am on Thursday to permit a break after the kickoff session.
Finally, thanks to Audrey Shull for sharing this week’s Jira Tip of the Week!
If you have worked with Jira tickets this week, you may have noticed that we cleaned up the values available in the Resolution field. (Thanks, Lisa Grossman!) We went from 19 items, many of which were similar, to a smaller list. The most notable change is that Fixed is no longer an option. All Fixed/Completed/Done items should use Completed (which is the default). Some additional details are available in Resolution Cleanup.
General Announcements
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Important Upcoming Dates
- JMP 17.1 Code Approval Starts – 1/6/23 ß TODAY!!!
- 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
JMP Live
- Aurora: 18.0: Support fetching the entire folder tree structure for a given space. Miscellaneous: Working on Perforce --> Git. Held demo for Beijing team. Polishing up confluence guidance. Completing the transition. JMP Live is now using Git exclusively for versions 18.0+! Apart from that, coming up with new data & reports for JMP Live demos.
Statistics
- Elizabeth: Negative binomial, a highly requested distribution for count data, has finally been pushed. Discrepancies noted when comparing to SAS GLIMMIX turned out to be a recently introduced bug in GLIMMIX on Windows. Older versions of GLIMMIX do not have the issue and agree with the JMP implementation. A fix for the GLIMMIX bug is ongoing, I hear. Lesson: trust thyself more! :smiling_face_with_smiling_eyes: Now moving on to other, more straightforward distributions, before tackling the Beta distribution for continuous proportions and then repeated measures/spatial structures.
- Laura C-S: Continued work on robust inference in SEM. Specifically, I’ve been researching and implementing the robust corrections to all the fit indices in the platform. I’m also preparing my slides for my European Discovery recording.
- John Sall: Fix unchecking Hide mode in Design Space Profiler (JMP-15141). Work on calling Chris's new mixed model code from Fit Response Screening for Genomics models (see more details in Confluence here).
- Ryan P: Fixed JMP-3589 for 17.1, which maintains the Validation column format when calling Save Data or Save Summaries in FDE. This now makes it easier for users to maintain their training, validation, and test data splits.
- Annie: Continuing work on the Short Run Control Charts.
Stat Documentation
- Michael C: Reviewed 17.1 help build, verified a JiraBot fix that Myron made, and made updates to Jiras from the past few months to fill in some doc fields that hadn’t been updated automatically by JiraBot prior to Myron’s fix.
Stat Testing
- Mark: Closing tickets for Easy DOE in JMP 17.1. Documenting the development process for Easy DOE for the UI/UX workstream. Adding an edit feature to Jacob’s tool to automate the generation of a usability study. Developing extensive test protocol using covering arrays for new Load Design feature in Easy DOE for JMP 17.1. Answer questions in JMP Community.
- Tonya: EA9 expired on December 31 so I’ve been working on gathering the last little bit of beta information that came in between my presentation and December 31 and adding it to the table and reports. I’ve also been working on bug verification.
- Jacob: Testing Load Design in Easy DOE, Space Filling Design, and designs with covariates and the updated DOE Dialog script when covariates are included.
Product Management
- Bryan F: Processed data from several usability tests for JMP Projects. In addition, I developed “stories” for the usability process used for JMP WFB and JMP Search, which entailed editing videos from prior usability studies, and collecting/organizing artifacts from other parts of the process.
Technical Support
Development Operations
- Myron: Worked on JMPTOOL-646: JiraBot update Book Name and other fields, JMPTOOL-592: help and helpkey builds relating to 17, automatically generating XSTR files (JMPTOOL-642 & JMPTOOL-267), and general crash system support.
- Bob: Worked with Drew on creating an installer validation tool for customers to use with JMP Clinical 17. Updated NIST test download based on updates provided by Michael Crotty.
- Jim: Perforce support, including the lockdown of //depot/main/Server and //depot/rel/r18.0/Server for JMP Live team.
- Melanie: Reviewing year end tasks and finishing PortableUI returns.
Localization
- We welcomed Krzysztof Jozefowicz to the team!
- Finishing up Portable UI for V17.1.
- Korean translations returned for Fitting Linear Models and Quality and Process Methods books. Next steps, screenshots get completed and PDFs created.
- Code changes and testing of Jenkins jobs to ramp up for translation of the Genetics book.
Documentation
- Susan C: Visually inspected EG help for 17.1. Worked on survey questions & sent to Qiana for review. Finished up some JMP Live feedback. Finalized JMP Live/Public help and production checked it. Created & sent PDFs to Melanie for localization. Created a new Confluence page about text insets in Framemaker.
- Qiana: Created the JMP 17.1 Help, reviewed my books in the Help, began creating the JMP Live 17.1 Help, and performed project management tasks.
- ChrisB: Finished production checking some books and reviewed the help of the two JSL books. Patched some missing styles.
System/Host Testing-Cary
- Mandy: Working on data examples to try and pull together something interesting to switch up ways to show Workflow Builder features at Discovery Europe for my paper and the plenary. Worked on 18.0 fixes for tabulate made by Dan S. in the hopes we can get those into JMP 17.1.
- Hui: Worked on machine inventory. Confirmed with Audrey that she can transfer the iPad Pro asset to my name. Continued transferring meaningful information from the SAS library laptop to safe locations before returning it to SAS. Planning for HTML5 interactive automation testing. Found a couple minor JMP Mac desktop issues on JMP 16.0and will investigate whether the problems happen on the current version for both Mac and Windows. Worked on new year resolution inspired by Shannon’s cartoon. :smiling_face_with_smiling_eyes:
- Nick: Working on some a couple of long standing feature requests for the Testing Dashboard, allowing for an option to only show ‘unknown’ failures in the tester failure matrix as well a new preference so a tester will see their ‘unknown’ failures by default on the tester result pages, instead of all of them. Also created a Jira from a bug found in the community regarding code folding and possible loss of code in a certain situation, and worked on a couple of bug verifications.
- Hunter: Validated the latest SAS Download Manager 2.94 on four Mac configurations and reported one issue to Michael King with an incorrect copyright date, still trying to reproduce CRP scroll crash on Mac from JMP-15105, updated JMP-15078 with steps to reproduce crash moving items to project with script, forwarded a Beyond Trust installation issue on one of my office Macs to the EPM Pilot Teams chat, and defect verification.
- Josh: JMP Live Story and Bug testing, Server admin work, and set up my pc to pull from GIT for JMP Live 18.0 builds. Created new na.sas.com certs for the dev/test servers since the current certs are expiring on the 20th of January.
- Lisa: Worked on 17.1 and 18.0 verifications, entered a boxplot shortest half bug that Praveena encountered, and submitted resolution changes in Jira.
- Audrey: Working out GitHub+Jira integration details with the Digital Commerce Team, planning for 2023.
- Anna: Adding tests for issues reported in 2022.
System/Host Testing-Beijing
- Beijing team:
- Eric Wang: (1) Jira stories/bugs verification. (2) Investigating JMP Live Sales server, we plan to deploy a server that has similar reports/data with sales: Investigated the failures when downloading and publishing sales data. Created script to publish jmplivesales reports. Now the script is able to creates the same space/folder/report structures as jmplivesales. Added result collection code.
- Da Li: (1) Verify and close stories/bugs, which are related to OSIPI, Import-Text. (2) Doing full regression testing for JMP Live Client-General components. [WEBJMP-6271] Move client to Vite - Jira (atlassian.net). (3) DONE with 17.1 baseline tests fix for French on Windows. (4) Work with Kimi on Jenkins automation for Mac issue and fix. (5) Attend Git demo from Aurora and raise questions.
- Mike Wu: (1) JMP 18.0 bugs regression testing. (2) Completed the fix of JMP 17.1 failures for DE language on Windows. (3) Updated the research database confluence page to include the Trino research and test result information by the suggestion from Audrey - (4) Work with SAS DBA team to migrate Oracle database (Click here to view INC0774365). (5) Started regression test on the recent Windows bug fix JMP-14934: Investigate moving the 17.1 trial telemetry prompt to the first launch. (6) Learnt Git/Bitbucket/GitKraken and attend Git demo meeting with Aurora.
- Kimi: (1) Prepare environment for baseline tests update on Mac. (2) Jenkins: Setup ssh key and git on AWS images (both on jmp_bj_ut and jmp_live_server_18), details refer to JMPTESTBJ-1841, JMPTESTBJ-1842 – in progress. Note: JMP Live Server and JMP Live migration Tests run on windows only, so no need to setup git on mac. Fix some errors when publishing loading test reports from race machine. Fix the mount error on mac, details refer to https://jmpdiscovery.atlassian.net/browse/JMPTESTBJ-1843 . (3) Attended Git demo and raise questions.
- Da Zhang: (1) Bug verifications for JMP Live. (2) Completed JMP 17.1 baseline test failures fix for Spanish on Windows & Mac, Japanese on Mac. (3) Attended Git demo.
- Nala: (1) Completed work summary of 2022 for Beijing team. (2) Completed JMP 17.1 baseline test failures fix for Italian and Korean on Windows & Mac. (3) Learn Git and attended Git demo.
Data Discovery
- Dan S: Fixes for packed columns in Tabulate - crash changing stats and customizing label. Fix alignment problem of axis and frame contents.
- Dave B: Integrating fixes into 17.1 and fixing problems with hover labels and local data filters.
- Xan: Tabulate bugs and header summary graph enhancements.
DOE
- Brad: Finishing a discussion of a paper by Christine Anderson Cook and Lu Lu with Caleb King on the relationship between Big Data projects and designed data collection.
- Peng: Made maintenance changes. One 17.1 change wasn’t even made by me. Dan Schikore saw the problem in JMP community before New Year, and fixed it for me before Monday. Other than those continue working on model fitting algorithms in Bill Meeker’s research projects.
- Caleb Finishing up my 17.1 fixes and working on other fixes slated for 17.2. I’ve also been working with Brad on a discussion paper for an article on incorporating DOE into big data.
Host
- John Schroedl: Wrote instructions on how to add files to the project on Windows in the How To Add New Files to WinOS and MacOS page. Working on 17.1 changes to collect Telemetry on first launch instead of second and later. Updated to latest WebView2 SDK and runtime installer. Added OpenNLP credits. VS and BeyondTrust support. Consulting with Evan on Main Menu() investigation.
HTML5
- John Powell: Refactoring to apply a consistent way of handling linked subsets to Bars (JMPHTML-541). Started Q4 Wrap up conversations. Helped Paul wrap up our refactoring sprint. Helped Praveena plan for a performance sprint. Assisted Dieter with a concern from one of our JMP Live customers. Installed GitKraken and cloned the JMP Live repo to be able to debug ‘JMP-Live-only’ Interactive HTML features in JMP 18.
- Praveena: Completed refactoring histogram segment to uses class. Did the groundwork for preparation of the benchmark testing sprint.
- Mayowa: This week I worked on adding labeled columns information in mosaic cell tooltips in html(JMPHTML-686) and refactoring xml parser code to remove duplicate arguments (JMPHTML-1921).
- Mike S: Working through the STIPS course; getting familiar with the JMP code and the VS Code IDE; finishing setup of my development environment.
- Paul Spychala: Working on categorical HTML5 AxisBox changes and bugfixes [JMPHTML-734, JMPHTML-1744].
Note from Shannon
Hope you all have a wonderful weekend! J
