Fourier: Making Waves - Publish 1.0 (9/30/2021)

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From the Project Overview spreadsheet, the milestones for 1.0 release are:

• design complete - 2/28/2021
• feature complete - 6/30/2021
• publish 1.0 - 9/30/2021 => actual 10/13/2021

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There will be a site visit related to a grant on June 22 & 24, 2021. The goal is to demo the first 2 screens.

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In #70 (comment), @kathy-phet said that the site visit has been moved to August 24, 2021.

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6/10/21 design meeting: @arouinfar @kathy-phet @pixelzoom @KatieWoe

Revised milestones:

• feature complete for 8/24/21 site visit
• QA starts in early September
• published by 9/30/21

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The sim was feature complete on 8/10/2021. The first feature-complete version is 1.0.0-dev.38.

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On 8/10/21, I posted in Slack design-sims channel:

If there’s time, Fourier could use a planning meeting — the weekly 5 minute checkin will not be sufficient. I’m expecting Fourier to be feature-complete today or tomorrow, well ahead of the 8/24 milestone. As we enter the “home stretch”, I’d like to map out a plan for interviews, code review, QA, etc. And make sure that the plan is coordinated with vacation schedules. We also have a backlog of GitHub issues that are “ready-for-review” that need attention— some of those are blocking me, so let’s go through the issues and get them resolved.

@arouinfar @kathy-phet The things to consider when mapping out a plan are:

• availability/vacations
  @arouinfar 8/24-8/31
  @pixelzoom 8/31-9/13

• needs for 8/24 site visit
  @pixelzoom with publish a dev version, also usable for interviews

• Fourier: Making Waves - publish 1.1 with PhET-iO #123
  Yes, we'd like to include PhET-iO. Assigning the design issue to @arouinfar and @kathy-phet.
  EDIT: We revisited this decision, and decided not to include PhET-iO in the 1.0 release, due to the amount of work involved, and other priorities.

• wrap up review of GitHub issues, including Wave Packet screen review
  To be wrapped up early next week. @ariel-phet may create some "polish" issues.

• interviews
  @arouinfar will reach out to a group this week, try to set something up for next week. Advanced students.

• code review
  OK to do at same time as dev testing. @pixelzoom will create GitHub issue (when closer to being ready). @kathy-phet will identify a developer to review. Ideally do this while @pixelzoom is on vacation.

• dev testing
  Start dev testing by 8/30, so that it's tested while @pixelzoom is on vacation.

• RC testing
  Start RC testing by 9/20, after @pixelzoom has returned, and has had a chance to address dev-test issues and code-review issues.

• 1.0 release date
  Target 9/30. This is tight, leaves only 10 days for RC testing.

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• wrap up review of GitHub issues, including Wave Packet screen review
  To be wrapped up early next week. @ariel-phet may create some "polish" issues.

I received "polish" feedback from @ariel-phet.

I did not received feedback from @arouinfar and @kathy-phet on the Wave Packet screen. And there are still many GitHub issues ready-for-review or blocking my progress.

So the schedule that we mapped out in #43 (comment) is no longer doable.

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The new plan is to do dev-lite testing and code review while I'm on vacation, 8/31-9/13. Then we'll evaluate where things are at, and decide what's next.

8/29/2021 dev-lite test published:

• Dev test - Fourier: Making Waves 1.0.0-dev.47 qa#701 (comment)

Dev-lite test completed 9/1/2021.

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Dev-lite testing and code review went well, so we decided to skip the full dev test. Instead, the Fourier team will exercise the sim. Then we'll go straight to RC. The issue for "team testing" is:

• Team testing prior to RC #178

EDIT: "Team testing" started 9/24, completed 9/27.

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9/28/21 RC test started:

• RC test - Fourier: Making Waves 1.0.0-rc.1 qa#711

EDIT: test completed 10/4/21, another RC test will be needed.

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10/7/21 RC test started:

• RC test - Fourier: Making Wave 1.0.0-rc.2 qa#714

EDIT: test completed 10/12/21. Another RC test will be needed because of #202.

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10/12/21 RC test started:

• RC test - Fourier: Making Waves 1.0.0-rc.3 qa#722

EDIT: test completed 10/12/21, ready to publish 1.0.

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10/13/21: published 1.0.0.

Closing.