Welcome to the JMP Development Update for 29 March 2024!
Notes from Shannon C
For the first time, we are scheduling a “dot dot” release - JMP 18.0.1 – that will be available to customers approximately 2 months after 18.0 (mid-May). JMP 18.0.1 is building daily for Mac and Win and JSL unit tests are daily on both platforms. Due to the short timeframe for releasing 18.0.1, we only have about a month until we plan to freeze that track on April 26th.
Security champions, please be on the lookout for any remaining third-party library updates needed to address known Critical and High security vulnerabilities. And everyone should be on the lookout for potential showstopper issues reported in 18.0 that we may need to turn around more quickly than the 18.1 schedule allows.
What types of issues would JMP managers consider to be possible candidates for inclusion in 18.0.1?
- Widespread crashes
- Serious numeric issues
- Issues impacting deployment of JMP at important customer sites
All changes pushed to 18.0.1 need to be reviewed and approved by JMP Approvers per usual process. As a reminder, there will be no string changes and no doc changes made in 18.0.1. JMP 18.0.1 Help key requests are set up to fall back to the 18.0 Help. There will be a set of release notes for JMP 18.0.1 detailing all the fixes included.
Thanks to John Sall for presenting at this week's JMP Dev Meeting: Three S's - Switched, Sliced, and Sub-grouped for Response Screening. There were so many happy comments on the capabilities and the amazing performance it offers! If you missed the meeting, you can find a recording here.
General Announcements
Important Upcoming Dates
- JMP 18.1 Feature Freeze – 4/19/24
- JMP 18.0.1 Code Freeze – 4/26/24
- JMP 18.0.1 Release – ~ 5/18/24
- JMP 18.1 Approval Mode Begins – 5/21/24
- JMP 18.1 Code Freeze – 6/14/24
- Please visit Confluence for a full list of JMP 18 and JMP 19 dates.
JMP Development Updates
Data Discovery
- Xan Gregg. RowStateAbility work and better supporting non-geographic background shape files
- Morgan Gribbins. This week I’ve been working on a new File Tree display box as well as some bug fixing for TextDisplay boxes and a crash in Script Editor.
- Dan Schikore. Added support for internal padding in ScrollBox. Fixed several stretch-to-fill and centering issues affecting Scroll Box, Hier Box, and Center Box. Fixed some edit focus and padding issues for Outline Box.
DOE
- Caleb King. This week, I’ve been fixing some minor bugs related to the new Two Sample Paired Means explorer I added into JMP 19 (this one is a built-in rather than C++). I’ve also been working with Annie to make improvements to the OC Curve built-ins as well. Finally, I’ve been working with Sky on his dormouse and jaguar-puma identification projects.
Host
- John Schroedl. Helped with the SSO issue seen on Mac as well as separate SSO issue on Windows. Pass renamed ENABLE_AUTHORIZATION flag from build scripts through to compiler. This will allow build scripts to control authorization directly instead of relying on our retail build flag. Updated Excel Profiler projects to help them build on AWS machine. Worked with Evan to diagnose deadlock on exit after having used the Find dialog in a report. Install Checker source was not configured to auto-integrate for 18.1 so I fixed up the source there; binaries had been integrated. Thanks to Nick for updating main-19 integration to include source as well.
Interactive HTML
- John Powell.
- Converted RectSegment.js to a JavaScript Class(JMPHTML-13604).
- Working on converting MarkerSegment.js to a JavaScript Class(JMPHTML-13619).
- Reviewed Feature Requests with Praveena, Paul, and Dieter to plan for JMP 19.
- Discussed new look for Interactive HTML content with Praveena, Paul, and Bryan.
- Discussed automated testing of interactive features of Interactive HTML content with Josh, Steve, Hui, and Natalie.
- Q1 check-ins.
- Mike Stickles. Completed work on JMPHTML-13617 (Refactoring packed bar segments to JS ES6 classes). Improved the fix for JMPHTML-13400 (color not used for interval bars with gradient color in legend) to include certain overlooked cases with side-by-side interval bars. Made substantial progress on JMPHTML-13616 (Refactoring bar segments to JS ES6 classes), should have it finished Monday or Tuesday.
- Paul Spychala. Still working with the HTML team in transitioning our codebase to use ES6 Classes and other refactoring tasks to improve our codebase.
- Michael Senoyuit. Refactored PolySegment, NumberBox, and GroupBox to ES6 Classes.
JMP Live
- Michael Goff. 18.1: Feature to view a user’s groups on the User Admin Panel. Feature to allow an admin to view Group Sync Results from the audit log. 19.0: Vue 3 upgrade related bug fixes found by testers.
- Aurora Tiffany-Davis. 18.1: Bug fixes. Remove some passive voice from phrasing shown to users. 19.0: Starting implementation of control chart warning improvements. Laying the foundation with "Unambiguously and persistently track each individual warning point" Jira. Miscellaneous: Trying out new Bitbucket "Code Owners" feature which should suggest reviewers based on the affected area(s) of code.
Statistics
- John Sall. In Fit Response Screening - Support Subgroups in Fit Model dialog (JMP-20855). In Fit Response Screening and elsewhere, center continuous random effects (JMP-20926)
Stat Testing
- Tonya Mauldin. Gave a presentation about JMP Live to the statistical testing group. Preparing a presentation about V18 Early Adopter feedback for the JMP development group.
- Mark Bailey. I pursued 5 intermittent unit test failures on one machine (macSOMX) and determined it was not the machine but a new Xcode version and libraries. I fixed 2 of 5 failures. I am working on a new concept for the random coefficients feature in the simulation in the Data Entry step in Easy DOE. I presented an analysis of JMP Lab results from Manchester with Jacob to the UI/UX working group. I am studying Bayesian Optimization and Gaussian Process surrogate models.
- Jacob Rhyne. Investigated DOE unit test failures on an M1 Mac. Prepared a demo of publishing to JMP Live using JSL to Stat Testers and Writers. Analyzed Easy DOE usability study results from Discovery Europe and presented findings to UI/UX working group with Mark Bailey. Worked on adapting framework that re-runs failing performance tests to re-run and confirm failures in my failing unit tests
Product Management and Product Marketing
- Bryan Fricke.
- Sarah Sylvestre and I are working on a usability study with Syensqo for a JMP LearnBot prototype.
- Processing results from the JMP Lab for LearnBot.
- Met with Customer Care and Data/Analytics team members about data mining support calls.
- JMP Live design questions, string review, and planning for Regeneron usability study.
- Ideation session with HTML5 team on updating exported reports to better match the look and feel of JMP Live.
- Usability test meeting where I presented how we collected data at the JMP Lab at Discovery Summit for multiple attitudinal studies and Mark Bailey and Jacob Rhyne present how they processed the data we collected for a choice study.
- Presented results from the JMP Lab for the JMP Marketplace last week.
Technical Support and Engagement
- Duane Hayes. With the release of JMP 18, Support has been hopping. We reached a new high in case volume with many authorization and My JMP issues being reported. Wendy’s Engagement team has been collaborating with other groups in JMP (business operations, sales, digital operations and store, for a few) to assist our customers with their various issues. Here are the TS JMP Live reports and the link to the Jira filter showing the tickets reported by TS for the last 14 days.
Case volume by week
Case Topics for Engagement queue, total:
Case Topics for Engagement queue, last week:
Development Operations
- Jim Borek. Launched JMP Pro 19 ASAN UT run on mac OS; set up new mac OS LEAKS UT machine for inaugural JMP Pro 19 run; set up WinOS UT machine for inaugural Debug JMP Pro 19 run; continued setting up the new AWS JMP 18.x build machine and running comparisons versus physical PC (for 18.1) – thanks to John Schroedl for the changes needed for the Excel Addin; updated or closed multiple JIRA entries; assisted in //depot/rel/r18.0.1/… integrations.
- Nick Ruva. Added JMPInstallChecker paths to Auto Integrate. Worked on the JMP 19.0 Mac Analysis build to fix nightly runs [continue to work on this to resolve outstanding issues with unknown developer emails being sent]. Resolved jmpsrv01 connectivity issues for the jmptrans Jenkins agent, and increased hard drive speed and throughput so the machine performed better. Resolved problem where Mac 19.0 CI builds were not switching from incremental to full builds when a warning or error was found.
- Melanie Drake. Jirabot 3.0: wrapping up final testing; planning initial deployment. Requirements, test cases, and UI discussions are all in Confluence. Localization: Ran new MIFs and PDFs for Shared Text Insets for some late changes. Documentation: Attended Oxygen Conversion Updates meeting and asked questions. General work: investigated a few stuck Jenkins jobs; got a nice overview of how JMPLive uses Jira sprints to prioritize their workflow; pretended to be Shannon C for a day and collated these updates from everyone.
Localization
- Trish O’Grady. Meeting to discuss localization of JMP Marketplace. Working to get authorization setup for external localization teams (JMP-20696). Triage of localization queries. Delivered TMX and localization term bases to marketing.
- Sandy Jenkins. Finished up most of my changes for process to produce Trados style memoq wordcount report for one of our vendors. Working with Howard to determine implementation strategy. Continued testing on create localized add-in job used in new add-in process. Finished testing deliver localized pdf job used in new add-in processing. Began testing populate source job using labeling.
- Allison Liang. This week I worked on: updating the localized JMP add-ins so the format of the version number displays consistently with English and previous versions; updated JMP Community add-in page with the updated localized add-ins; submitted PO requests for reviewers; updated the localized TI_01_About SharedTextInsets file to reflect the updates made to the English source; responded to queries from translator regarding strings in V18.0 UG and BA books.
Documentation
- Susan Conaghan. Attended Devon’s Oxygen meeting. Worked on goals in Workday. Met with Khawar for a check in. Reviewed Khawar’s feedback on the Quick Start tips and on the DJ book. Finished up class, The 5 Choices to Extrordinary Productivity. Addressed a Jira for the Learn about JMP chapter. Updated JMP Live/Public story Jiras with 18.1 dates.
- Chris Barrett. Added or edited the copyright and disclaimer in the Sample scripts 18.0 thru 19. After talking to Trish, edited and rebuilt the doc add-in. Cleaned /drafts and archived the current 18.0 help and 17.2 after adjusting its noindex and banner. Examined UploadHelpMapToAWS.pl and tried to figure out how to test a helpmap file. Met with our intern, Khawar, to answer questions. Culled a lot of email. Gave blood :smiling_face_with_smiling_eyes:
- Devon Powell. JMP-20915: Fixing errors found in Using JMP book by L10N; documented Collapsible Annotations; began AWS training with AWS Skill Builder; working on wrapping rules for conversion table, specifically wrapping bulleted and numbered lists and how FrameMaker’s markers will get translated to DITA elements.
System/Host Testing-Cary
- Audrey Shull. Confluence admin work and some Confluence trainings, early planning for interns, automated Jenkins job maintenance.
- Mandy Chambers. Worked on verifying some JIRA fixes/changes to the data table, workflow performance, pasting columns and scrolling, Summary locale fix, Select matching cell fix in right click menu; wrote test if necessary; chased down a debug build on Mac throwing an assert with Michael Hecht; Entered this JIRA due to some strange display issues in JMP 19 Odd Behavior with moving columns and drop zone areas in JMP 19 on Mac ; Managed first LEAP book club at lunch time; Working on some workflow tests/updates for a demo in late April.
- Lisa Grossman. This week, I worked on splitting up and updating reports for telemetry data, verifying 18.1 crash fix with configure levels, and entered a needless dispatch bug that Evan ran into.
- Nick Holmes. This week I have been working on diagnosing unit test failures that have started early in this 19.0 cycle – there is already a lot to look though! Continuing 19.0 verifications with a priority toward fixed planned for 18.1.
Web Testing – Cary
- Natalie Horton. Successfully updated 4 testcase failures in our existing HTML5 automation to improve our daily report numbers by a little bit. Completed new test coverage planning with Steve. Began creating additional coverage for missing value changes in tooltips.
System/Host Testing-Beijing
Note from Melanie
If you can bear the pollen, it looks like a lovely weekend in Cary!
