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General Goals
- Monitor Apache for error 500, target 0.2% a month.
- No more than 2 data repushes a month.
- No more than 1 hour downtime during normal business hours.
QAing tracks/assemblies
- Browser QA process:
- Encode QA process
CGI Build Process & Testing
- 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 Maven
- 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.
