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Revision as of 20:23, 28 March 2011

Currently we are on a 3 week CGI software release schedule. See CGI_Build_Schedule for more details.
The buildmeister follows this process.
When the CGIs are loaded on hgwbeta, the QA'er tests their assigned CGIs. The general CGI testing instructions can be found here.

Mailing list schedule can be found on the QA group calendar (Note: where it says Calendar:, you will need to change the drop down from "Main" to "QA" to view.)
Mailing list procedure can be found on the redmine wiki
Places to search for answers:
- Mailing list archives (which can be searched from these two pages on the main website: Contact and FAQ
- Search the mailing list forum which isn't as extensive as the mailing list archives.
- Public Genome Wiki
- Search the redmine mailing list project for internal chatter on previously answered mailing list questions.
- Frequently_asked_mailing_list_questions
- List of Subject Matter Experts to go to for help.
Remember that when you email users, make sure the links don't have session id's.
- Ex: w/ session id: http://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?hgsid=190182411&c=chrX&g=geneid (remove the bolded section)
- Ex: w/o session id: http://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=hg19&g=geneid (note that links to description pages should include the database: db=hg19&)
Most other links without an hgsid will likely not work. Instead, create a session.
Make sure none of the links you respond with are to our internal servers, such as hgwdev. Typically we should only send links to genome.ucsc.edu, genome-preview.ucsc.edu, and to hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu.

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 *[http://genomewiki.ucsc.edu/index.php/Getting_Started_With_Git Getting_Started_With_Git]
 *[http://genomewiki.ucsc.edu/index.php/Working_with_Git Working_with_Git]
+* Once you've read up...ask to take the Git Quiz.
 [[Category: Browser QA]]
 [[Category: Browser QA Training]]