Misc. todos (rolling)

[Casper-Guo]

July 2024

• Improve time zone handling in preprocessing (Better calculations for available sessions #77)
• Dash app get session list based on what's available in data (Better calculations for available sessions #77)
• Bash scripts suppress expect scripts non-error output (727cab0)
• All plotting functions and get_driver support drivers=None to include all drivers (Rewrite get_drivers to accept drivers=None #83)
• Put dashboard static layouts in a separate file (Relocate static page layout #80)
• Use prevent_initial_call to simplify callbacks that need special handling on initial page loading (Use prevent_initial_call to avoid triggering some dropdowns #81)
• Look into other incorporating other advanced callback usages, especially running
• Look into using orjson and other performance tips. (87ea62e)

August 2024

• Simplify plotly code by removing absolute_compound argument from all APIs. This will also enable removing season argument from some plotting functions. (8b6f41e)
• Standardize x-ticks across plots (8b6f41e)
• Look at the callback graph and find optimizations. Can probably save some networking time if we skip some data reloads
• Use merging to calculate lap rep columns (f31f99a)
• Issue templates (Add issue templates #93)

November 2024

• Bump Fastf1 version to 3.4.4 so we can get the complete 2024 season schedule data (otherwise rounds 1 to 9 are missing)
• Add a function for computing finishing order from the Laps dataframe as a backup to Ergast. Not sure how useful this will be once the Ergast replacement is up

December 2024

• Investigate whether ruff rule B905 (use strict keyword argument in zip) can be safely enabled
• Revert Temporarily fixing CURRENT_SEASON to 2024 #123 when new season schedule data becomes available (some updates to app.py - set_event_options needed to prevent KeyError)