VTK/ARB/Meetings/January 2010

Agenda

• Review action items from last meeting.
  • Berk will deprecate compilers.
  • Berk will write a Git whitepaper.
  • Will will write email about ARB to community.
• Examples in VTK.
• Use of std:: in VTK.
• The role of topic leads. (VTK/Managing the Development Process)

Notes

Compiler support

• We should have a document that describes the support level of compilers, much like Qt has.
• We need to revisit the supported compiler list after each release.
• There will likely be a release of VTK (5.6) in March 2010.

VTK and git

• There is now a wiki page describing how people would use git.
• VTK will move to git in the coming two or three months.

Communicating to community

• We should finalize roles and responsibilities, then communicate to the community.

Examples in VTK

• There are now over 100 examples on the VTK wiki.
• Will they all go to VTK? Will there be a separate examples repository?

Use of std::

• Currently there is a commit check in VTK to disallow any use of std namespace.
• We will experiment without the std:: commit check to see if supported compilers can handle it.

The role of topic leads

• Topic leads would have ownership and responsibility over parts of VTK.
• VTK needs a development process. This will evolve with the move to git.
• The wiki needs major cleanup and simplification.

Action Items

• Kitware will continue work on move to git.
• Bill will investigate the organization of examples/tutorials into VTK or other repositories.
• Brad King will remove the commit check of std, and Bill will test out what happens if you use it in examples.

Next Time

Discussion on the scope of VTK

• Should we work on modularization, glue code to other toolkits?
• Titan (VTK + informatics) and it's new repository could test out some ideas.