Welcome to the JMP Development Update for August 16, 2024!
Cooler temperatures were much appreciated in Cary this week, especially in mornings and evenings. I’m certainly looking forward to more of that this weekend. Could it really be an early fall?
It was a big week for releases: JMP Student Edition was released in time for the start of the fall semester, and EA2 was released to our Early Adopters. A reminder that any customer with a JMP 18 license is eligible for the Early Adopter program and you can send those customers to our EA page. JMP staff can access the EA by signing into My JMP.
The Final Image Candidate for JMP 18.1 will be available next week (final security fix going in today) and testing will begin validating and preparing for the final release. Most developers are focused on JMP 19 features with some bug fixes still going into JMP 18.2. We also have a JMP 18.1.1 track available for security fixes or major bug fixes that can’t wait for 18.2. With EAs also thrown in, there’s lots going on in the build world – many thanks to Jim Borek for juggling all of those needs.
Our next scheduled JMP dev meeting will be next week 8/22. At that session, we’ll hear a presentation by the Data Connectors team on their JMP 19 progress. Also, we’ll meet on 8/29 to hear about an add-in Luciano has created to integrate more genomic sequence pre-processing capabilities into JMP Pro! If you’d like to sign up for a future JMP Dev slot, please see the JMP Dev Volunteer Schedule in Confluence here.
General Announcements
Important Upcoming Dates
- JMP 18.1 Final Installer Candidates – 8/19/24
- JMP 19 EA3 Freeze Date – 9/20/24
- JMP 18.1.1 Code Freeze – 11/1/24 (Intended for security fixes only, but if a major issue is found, this is a potential train to put fixes on)
- JMP 18.2 Portable UI String Deadline for Developers – 11/13/24. You have plenty of time; don’t let it sneak up on you!
- Please visit Confluence for a full list of JMP 18 and JMP 19 dates.
Atlassian news:
Upcoming JMP Jira configuration changes on August 19
The admin team is rolling out a few changes to Jira on Mon Aug 19, and your input on these changes is welcome. Send email to Shannon Leslie or add a comment to the Confluence document below, before Monday, Aug 19, with any input.
The highlights are:
- Change in Cloning Jira issues
- More ways to re-open Jira issues
- Simpler Resolve screen
To see further detail, please read August+19+2024+Atlassian+customizations+improvements
August 13 Atlassian product changes for Jira/Confluence
Separate from our custom configuration items mentioned above, on August 13, Atlassian rolled out changes to our Jira and Confluence Cloud sites. A list of relevant changes along with some highlighted details and documentation can be found in August+13+2024+product+changes+for+Jira+Confluence
The changes include:
- Confluence databases are now available
- Better table layout control in Confluence
- Calendars available in Jira projects
- Better email notification control for Jira users
- Coming soon: Jira’s dot menu will be removed, and users will need to use the command palette for some issue updates
- And more!
Contact Shannon Leslie or any of the other JMP Atlassian admins with questions. And check out our JMP Atlassian Q&A Teams channel, for this and other Atlassian updates.
JMP Development Updates
Core
- Xan Gregg: Support Undo for GB show/hide commands; making Undo UI-only (non-scripting) in more places.
- David Barbour: Fixing recent jiras: Combo box append failure, Seach Dialog settings bug, recode/table box sort issue, MFI enabled state bug
- Dan Schikore: Fixed crash when data filter is closed, fixed drawing artifacts on Windows with display > 30k pixels, worked with Bryan Boone to fix a connection dialog stretching issue, more work on PlatformContainerBox and fixes for introduced issues, worked with Laura Lancaster on Group Platform broadcast issues for Process Capability, added Student Edition watermarking at JMP 18.2/19.0.
DOE and Reliability
- Irene Ji: Investigating Jira tickets and working on research projects.
Hosting and Interfaces
- John Schroedl: Received the Lenovo laptop with a Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite CPU. Installed JMP Pro 18.0.1 from My JMP and JMP runs well under x64 emulation. Many tests including Baselines ran with only one very minor difference from Intel machine (Numeric diff in 13th decimal place of one test). All NIST tests pass. Further testing is needed, especially the OpenBLAS library but the machine is not allowed on the SAS network due to no ARM BeyondTrust. Performance of the machine is quite good and I think any customer who installs an existing version of JMP on this generation of CPU should have no problems. As a bonus, our x64-based Excel add-in works fine within the ARM-based version of Excel. An ARM native build of JMP is needed to determine performance advantages of ARM. Crash investigations. Review and discussions of Clipping changes. Removed “tablet mode” support from JMP 19. Continued progress on Dark Mode support.
Interactive HTML & JMP Live
- John Powell: Added support to display control charts when clicking on points in the Goal Plot or Process Performance Graph of the Process Screening platform’s web-based process browser(JMPHTML-14032).
- Paul Spychala: Worked on more Profiler support for HTML/JMP Live. Support Embedded Bivariate Loess Profilers in Interactive HTML [JMPHTML-13951]. Also worked on more Math Operation support for use in Profilers (such as Distribution Platform): Add HTML MathML Support for SHASH Distribution Operation [JMPHTML-13971], Add HTML MathML Support for Johnson Su Distribution Operation [JMPHTML-13977], Add HTML MathML Support for Normal Mixture Distribution Operation [JMPHTML-13976], Add HTML MathML Support for Interpolate Operation [JMPHTML-14034]. Also held meetings about when to have Fit to Window for HTML Reports.
- Aurora Tiffany-Davis: Control chart warning improvements (support customized tests, add more filtering for assignment to group, plan more user guidance for triage reset scenario, investigate performance limits, create abbreviated new feature page, review external UX study performed by Bryan Fricke - thank you Bryan!). Met with Bavarian Nordic about an upcoming JMP Live demo.
Statistics
- Annie Dudley: Continuing work on adding sort-by-row-order for nested X variables in Control Chart Builder (Jira-JMP-8247), together with Xan and Ernest.
Stat Testing & Documentation
- Mark Bailey: recorded the presentation for JMP Discovery Summit USA with Tonya. I discussed new crashes in Easy DOE unit test scripts with Jacob after Dan introduced a new container box. I continued working on the add-in for a prototype of Bayesian optimization. I am developing a case study for BO based on the original and popular PenSim simulation of Penicillin batch production.
- Haley Yaremych: Added UTs and resolved some JIRA tickets related to changes in the appearance of the SEM report when using the MIIV-2SLS estimator. Experimented with the JMP-to-Python connector for running R code. Met with James to discuss SEM testing and STIPS module 2.
- Jacob Rhyne: Testing Categorical, writing new tests for Compare Each Cell for cases with overlapping counts. Testing Easy DOE, investigating crashes (resolved today) and beta feedback. Working with Bill Fisher to help him get started testing his Choice Design add-in. Verifying Jira tickets and adding unit tests
- Hamid Sanei: Drafted the LGC no-growth model example. Searched for external datasets focusing on publicly available longitudinal studies. Reviewed LGC models in the SEM chapter to aid in developing the new example. Discussed dataset availability and selection for the LGC no-growth example with Laura C-S via Teams. Read a key paper on alternative independence models, which will inform the LGC no-growth model development.
Life Sciences Updates
- Meichen Dong: more features to the new Causal Treatment Personality. Had a discussion with Russ about adding the Propensity Score Matching method to the current Causal platform as there are many customer requests.
- Richard Zink: Completed preliminary work on the Recurrence Report for JMP Clinical 19.0. Will demo at a future dev meeting.
- Drew Foglia: Continued work on 18.2 and 19.0 features in JMP Clinical - add capability to where clause builder for consumer to specify narrower/simpler usage scenarios. Triage customer issues/usage patterns.
- Wenjun Bao: Shared our experience in visiting Eli Lilly this week. Enjoy these pictures of JMP Staff with some of Eli Lilly’s executives.
Technical Support and Engagement
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Development Operations
- Jim Borek: Completed JMP Clinical 19 EA #2 rebuilds. Experimented with the DevOps team board in JIRA. Updated or fixed numerous JIRA entries; verified others. Added new JIRA entries from latest LEAKS run results.
- Bob Hickey: Finish up Windows V19 EA2 installers and set up all EA2 installers for release via My JMP. Confirm and validate JMP Student 18.0.2 for release. Re-architect the Windows installer build process for EA 3+ to avoid some pitfalls found when EA 2 was delayed
- Shannon Leslie: Curated list of Atlassian August release changes affecting our Jira and Confluence sites; worked on Jira improvements for issue workflows, issue cloning, and resolve screen simplifications; discussed the SAS Registering Technologies process implications for JMP; met with Atlassian account executive to establish a point of contact for assistance plus escalation path for support issues; created new Jira board for DevOps tools developers; investigating Jira oddities with skipped issue key numbers with Atlassian support.
- Melanie Drake: Diagnosed and fixed a strange problem where the client workspace definition for the MIF-PDF jobs spontaneously changed; cleaned up the workspace; and got all the jobs running again. Improved and expanded script to get and parse Unit Test Jenkins runs information; ran it on all currently running jobs; began working on script to grab information on TestBot dashboard. Brainstormed JMP milestone dates management with Audrey, Bob, and Shannon L. General investigation, testing, troubleshooting for a variety of DevOps processes.
Localization
- Sandy Jenkins: Tested new function on project creation dashboard. Getting new feature(copying files to stage) of commit job ready for production. Tested new features for file validation program. Tested addition of file validation to end of file population job-getting it ready for production. Worked on documentation for kickoff meeting for new automation framework.
- Krzysztof Jozefowicz: Testing new L10N automation features (commit and validation jobs; localization dashboard); Enhancing custom Google AutoML Translate models; Prepared the presentation about JMP Marketplace translations (human translated UI and Machine translated Add-in descriptions); Processing translation deliveries for books.
- Allison Liang: Delivered 18.1 localized DJ pdfs to Roger; prepared and sent out 18.1 Release Notes for localization; discussed process for creating JMP Documentation Add-ins and Documentation Library with Trish and Chris B; provided inputs to Confluence pages which Trish put together for localization workflows and Jira automation integration.
- Sohail Lokhandwala: Wrote file translation script to translate entire documents using custom AutoML models, rebuilt and updated model training files, continued wrapping up new features on TM Search page.
- Howard Chen: Worked on Translation package return feature for Dashboard: Background schedule checking for package return; Start QA process; Allow PM to Accept and Reject the package; Export translation to stage; Push translation to production
- Trish O’Grady: Refine workflows for localization processes & Jira automation. Reviewing processes for localized doc add-ins & doc library. Attended meeting with Marketplace team to review translation feedback from JMP Japan. HR training on Monday afternoon.
Documentation
- Qiana Eaglin: Worked on JMP-21865, JMPDOC-2070, and JMP-15992. Continued work on the Doc Retention Plan. Began formulating list of tasks to complete for FM upgrade to 16.0.6. Made updates to Updating help templates and project files and began updating the help template files for 18.2. Prepared for and attended DEI Committee meetings.
- Susan Conaghan: Finished up localized JMP Live/Public 18.1 help and passed over to test. In talks with Dieter about JMP Live help improvements. Working on plans for editing resource. Working on Work Smarter not Harder course
- Khawar Khan: Met with Qiana, Chris, David, and Evan to discuss the work I've done on Sample Index so far; Got their feedback for the way forward. Met Chris to discuss PDF design issues in the books. Finished a CSS course on Courseacademy course; Will start the one on edX. Fall work authorization completed; Working part-time from Monday, Aug 19
- Devon Powell: JMP-16968: Updates to Ruler tool documentation, JMPDOC-2161: Beginning to work through the Excel sheet of DJ issues
- Chris Barrett: Pushed new 18.2 help; republished 18.1. Wrote up PDF design issues. Started writing doc for preset add-ins (JMP-22441). Writing proposal to edit help URL in preferences. Writing copy script for jmplive and jmppublic files.
System/Host/Web Testing-Cary
- Audrey Shull: EA2 Testing, investigating an issue in the test framework, brainstorming ideas (with Shannon L, Melanie, Bob) about how to better manage our release dates, ideation about parallelization of our unit test runs.
- Mandy Chambers: Worked on the New Table Grid, such as Ernest’s tags changes; Save is now working for New Table Grid also. Writing Capture/image tests so we can watch it change. Tabulate has had some action and fixes – verified and checked those and now Andrew has pushed those changes to 18.2 also. Answered a few TS tracks. Met with Evan on some copy/paste changes that will be coming. Testing a fix Ernest pushed for For Loops in workflow builder.
- Hunter Weaver: Finished JMP 19 EA 2 testing. Reviewed the localized Discovering JMP PDF files for 18.1. Tested offline manual authorization with authorization codes obtained from test site for JIRA item JMP-22570. Installed Mac Sequoia Dev. Beta 6 on the Intel and Apple Silicon host testing Macs in the lab and ran some tests. Responded to one JMP 19 EA 1 track.
- Nick Holmes: Catching up from vacation. Talked with Mandy and created a couple Jira’s for WFB suggestions related to grouping and custom steps. Looked into an issue with a CCB setting not being set/reset correctly, affecting tests downstream. Continuing work on discovery paper.
- Mike Muhlada: Keeping up with image diffs. Sikuli updates for 19.0, but need to wait for big updates for data table coming around EA3. Trying to create new mimic test to showcase for Test meeting on Monday.
- Natalie Horton: Progressed with HTML5 automation updates due to UI changes. Pass rates greatly improved this week. Continued new test coverage for Pie Chart.
System/Host Testing-Beijing
- Lily Meng: (1) Completed course "Acceptable Use of SAS Systems and Networks". (2) Learned "Workflow and Standards” (3) Learned JMP in the JMP Community, finished all "Getting-Started-with-JMP-On-Demand". (4) Based on "JMP Final Installer Validation", learned JMP installer testing. (5) Learned JSL in the "JMP Education", completed the first three chapters and plan to start the fourth chapter. (6) Learned JMP Clinical installer testing based on "Check List for Early Installation JMP Clinical 18 and 19".
- Nala Sun: (1) Bug Verification. (2) JMP 18.0.2 installer testing. - Done (3) JMP 19 EA#2 Testing. - Done (3) JMP Clinical 19 EA#2 testing. - Done (5) Update Load Testing tests for JMP Live 19. - In Progress
Product Management and Product Marketing
- Bryan Fricke: Met with Justin Chilton to discuss the filtering design for JMP Live. Additionally, had a meeting with Matthias Abele from Evonik to carry out a usability assessment for JMP Live's control chart triaging features. Subsequently, prepared a report and had a discussion with Aurora to review the outcomes. Currently, processing feedback for JMP Marketplace. Due to unexpected events, the report got delayed. Nevertheless, I aim to complete the report and review the findings next week in a meeting with Kristen Slappey.
Note from Audrey
I always love Shannon’s comics and appreciate Bryan Boone sharing this great one for you this week. Have a nice weekend everyone!
