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* set up nightly cron to update kent source tree | * set up nightly cron to update kent source tree | ||
* [[Make_your_own_virtual_space | build your own sandbox]] | * [[Make_your_own_virtual_space | build your own sandbox]] | ||
==Mailing Lists that QA'ers should be on== | |||
* Sign yourself up for the genecats mailing list: https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genecats | |||
* Sign yourself up for the genome mailing (USCS genome browser discussion) list: https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome | |||
* Sign yourself up for the genome mailing (USCS genome browser mirror discussion) https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome-mirror | |||
* Sign yourself up for the genome mailing (USCS genome browser announcments) https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome-announce | |||
* Sign yourself up for the School of Engineering (SoE) Staff mailing list: https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/staff | |||
* Ask Donna and Bob to add your email address to the following alias lists: | |||
**browser-qa | |||
**browser-staff | |||
**push-request | |||
**genome-www? | |||
== Tools == | == Tools == | ||
Revision as of 17:34, 28 March 2011
(see also: Getting Started for Browser QA Engineers and Getting Started for Browser Dev Engineers)
Logistics
- get a computer
- get a login
- get a redmine account
- email for UCSC and SOE
- key card
- add your contact information to your .plan file
- copy .tcshrc and .bashrc from one of us (both are needed to run scripts)
- copy .hg.conf and .hg.conf.beta from someone, so you can run hgsql and scripts that use it.
- set up ssh authentication among dev, beta and your linux box
- check out a copy of the kent source tree
- get git commit access
- set up nightly cron to update kent source tree
- build your own sandbox
Mailing Lists that QA'ers should be on
- Sign yourself up for the genecats mailing list: https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genecats
- Sign yourself up for the genome mailing (USCS genome browser discussion) list: https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome
- Sign yourself up for the genome mailing (USCS genome browser mirror discussion) https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome-mirror
- Sign yourself up for the genome mailing (USCS genome browser announcments) https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome-announce
- Sign yourself up for the School of Engineering (SoE) Staff mailing list: https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/staff
- Ask Donna and Bob to add your email address to the following alias lists:
- browser-qa
- browser-staff
- push-request
- genome-www?
Tools
- vi (vimtutorial) -- or other editor
- mysql
- git -- see [Working_with_Git] and [Getting_Started_With_Git]
Browser
- Open Helix tutorials
- ASHG hands-on tutorial
Data
- Jorge's data flow PowerPoint presentation [Browsermap.pdf]
Training person-to-person (in rough chronological order)
- machine layout
- data flow
- using git: day to day commands, and git reports/pair review process
- make docs
- pushQ
- redmine
- trackDb.ra and trackDb table
- (for Q/A only) QAing a "normal" track (using the New_track_checklist)
- joinerCheck
- static docs
- makefiles
- /usr/local/apache vs. the git tree
- hgcentral
