OEWG 20120117

OBO-Edit Working Group Meeting: Tuesday, January 17, 2012, 8:30am PST

Conference call numbers:
US: 1 866 953 9688
UK: 0808 238 6001
PIN: 801561

Agenda/Chair: Nomi Harris
Minutes: Nomi
Attendees:

Bug and Feature Trackers

• OE Bug tracker
• OE Feature tracker

Discussion

• GO Editors have switched to using 2.1.0, and it seems to be working well in general.
• Harold thought that the latest version seemed to start up slower than the previous release candidate a few weeks ago. I'm not aware of any reason why this should happen--has anyone else observed this?
  • My tests show the startup time to be the same (it prints how long it takes to start up, so I'm not just going by my subjective impression).
  • You could try moving your oboedit_config to see if that helps.
  • You didn't add any new filters or anything, right?
• Can't save cross products (in OE1 or OE2)
  • Can I close this bug report?
• Can't delete genus in cross product tab
  • I implemented a genus trashcan, but unfortunately it didn't work properly in Autocommit mode so I had to comment it out for release 2.1.0. I hope to get it working for 2.1.1.
  • As before, you can use the Parent Editor to delete an unwanted genus.
• I am looking for a few users to test the new features we've added (see below) before doing a public release.

Fixed or newly added since last meeting

• Chris and Heiko got OBO<->OWL conversion working inside OE
• When you load a file, say foo.obo, and then edit it and save it as, say, bar.obo, the OE titlebar still says foo.obo. Would be nice if the title would change to the saved filename.
  • Fixed
• Automatic detection of changed files/reload option
  • Added a new background thread that checks whether the file you're looking at has changed on disk since you last loaded or saved it.
    • If you've loaded multiple files, it only checks the first one. I could (with some more work) make it check all of them.
  • cvs revision tag check Jane requested, "Can OE look at the cvs revision in the header of the file to see that the file it's saving over is the same as the one it loaded? And if not, give a warning. We occasionally lose changes this way if we cvs update before saving in OE - OE writes over the patched file when the save is then made."
    • This is a special case of checking whether the file has changed on disk, and will be covered by that (but OE will not specifically check cvs revision information)
• quick save
  • For years, OE users have longed for a quick save (command-S) that just saves in the last-used file instead of making you go through the Save As GUI. I have now implemented this.
    • The FIRST time you save in an OE session, it makes you use the Save As interface (rather than trying to guess all the save configuration options). After that, you can do quick save, which will quickly and silently use the same save profile.
• The version number in the installed version was coming out as 2.1 instead of 2.1.0
  • Fixed (but still needs some tweaking to work correctly with three numbers plus a beta, e.g. 2.1.1-b1)

Currently working on

• Can't delete genus in cross product tab -- if you erase the genus from the genus box and then commit, the genus comes back.
  • It turns out this broke around v2.1-b5 due to a fix that addressed a problem where the genus in the xp would disappear. If i comment out that fix, then you can delete the genus by erasing it, but then you get the problem where it goes away when you don't want it to!
  • I'm trying to fix this and/or to get the genus trashcan working in Autocommit mode

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