OEWG 20110208
OBO-Edit Working Group Meeting: Tuesday, February 8th, 2011, 8:30am PST
Conference call details: New GOC conference call numbers
US: 1 866 953 9688
UK: 0808 238 6001
pin: 801561
Agenda/Chair: Nomi Harris
Minutes:
Attendees:
Action items carried over
Bug and Feature Tracker Updates
Discussion items
- Nomi will be away during our next scheduled meeting (22 Feb). Should we:
- Skip that meeting and meet in four weeks (8 Mar)?
- Meet in three weeks (1 Mar) and then every two weeks after that? (Would that confuse people?)
- Meet some other day during the week of 22 Feb? (Any other day that week is ok with Nomi.)
Fixed since last meeting:
irritating selection bug in autocompletion-searches (b30)
- Several similar bugs were noted as fixed in 2.1-b7, but they weren't--it would still choose the first item in the list if you moused down in the list and then hit return. Now it's really fixed.
- Users with older Macs that don't have Java 1.6 (such as Ramona) couldn't launch OE--see also [The JVM could not be started http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3150956&group_id=36855&atid=418257]
- Fixed--OE installer will now work even if you only have Java 1.5.
- Pre-release available for those who need it--ask Nomi in email.
Issues and action items carried over from last meeting:
- Chris fixed the bug where OE was failing to exclude disjoint relationships when checking is_a complete.
- Terry has question about is_a closure across different ontologies. He'll test beta8 and report any problems.
- Terry wrote instructors for configuring a renderer to color terms by namespace (Thanks, Terry!). Nomi needs to add this to user guide.
- Nomi will also add comments on reasoner + memory to user guide.
- Marcus often gets out-of-memory warning. Nomi (and GO editors) also sees it with GO and the reasoner. Not an easy fix. Work-around: edit with reasoner off, then SAVE, then reason. Nomi will add note to user guide.
- Brainstorming possible ways to remind users that reasoner is on/to turn off reasoner when quitting/etc.
- ID fixer: Chris thinks the ID fixer is buggy and that it needs to be fixed. However, I haven't seen any high-priority bugs posted about this (only a level-5 bug I posted myself several years ago). How important is this?
- Most wg members don't even know what it does! Nomi will bring it up with Chris.
Currently working on
Some filters give wrong answers unless reasoner turned on
- Discussed with Chris. Agreed on short-term fix: "if an aspect of a search cannot be performed without the reasoner, then it should be greyed out or otherwise indicated."
- Longer term possibilities--see discussion in Some filters give wrong answers unless reasoner turned on
- Discussed with Chris. Agreed on short-term fix: "if an aspect of a search cannot be performed without the reasoner, then it should be greyed out or otherwise indicated."
- Obsolete terms appear in autocomplete dropdown lists.
- Current status: implemented removal of obsolete terms from autocomplete lists for searches of "Any text field" (will implement for other types of searches.
- This extra test slows down creation of autocomplete list.
- Accordingly, Becky suggested making this a user-configurable option (whether or not to exclude obsolete terms from autocomplete lists). Will add to Configuration Manager.
- I'm also looking into ways to speed up autocomplete.
- Current status: implemented removal of obsolete terms from autocomplete lists for searches of "Any text field" (will implement for other types of searches.
Next bugs to work on:
- built in icons missing (Ramona)
- Bad handling of unrecognized relation (text editor et al.)
- I looked into this some--will not be simple to fix. Has to do with how dangling objects (e.g., unrecognized relations) are handled in different components.
Demo
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Action Items
- Terry will write instructions on how to use renderers to color terms by namespaces [done]. Nomi will add to the user guide.
- Nomi will add note about reasoner & memory to user guide.