Agenda&Status 082410

How to Join the Tcon

Number to Call

• 1-800-728-9607 (in the US) or
• +1 9139049873 (international)
• access code 6815251

Webex

• Meeting link
• https://emeetings.webex.com/emeetings/j.php?ED=138191182&UID=482060457&PW=NNzJiNDk1ZGU3

Project Management

• Date of next meeting? 4-6 october?

Technical Topics

Stable ITK 3.20

• How to get it.
• Maintenance rules (gate keeper ?)

Gerrit is ON

• Marcus Hanwell to summarize
• Details in the ITK Gerrit Wiki page
• URL: http://review.source.kitware.com/
• All developers must create their accounts.
  • You only need an OpenID
• Define groups
• Define users' roles
  • Reviewers must be required from each contractor ?
• Define workflow

• Phases

Sequestered Reference Applications

We have already made significant changes, and they are not being recorded yet. It is time to setup these reference applications.

• Slicer
• OTB
  • Nightly build use the current ITKv4.
  • http://dash.orfeo-toolbox.org/buildSummary.php?buildid=29602
• V3D Plugins
• IGSTK

DICOM

Dan and Mathieu to report

• Beginnings of a requirements document. Comments welcome.
• Updating openjpeg : DONE !
• Introducing JPEG2000 : DONE !
• Updating to GDCM 2.0
• Release date for ITKv4-A02 ?

Simple ITK

• Design Discussions
• Sandbox in Github
• Aggregating an ARB (composed of potential future users)
  • Define requirements
• Simple ITK Layer
• Wrapping for C#
• Adding more filters

Wrapping

• Plans for wrapping
• Tools
  • Pros and Cons
• Wrapping
• update from brad on wrapitk test (new swig usage that addresses existing concerns)?

Refactoring Optimization Framework

• Is the | refactoring of the optimization framework going to be considered for itkv4?
  • Brian Avants to lead discussion on registration refactoring.

ITK Readers for Microscopy formats

• There's a need for readers in the microscopy community in order to be able to use ITK
  • Zeiss (LSM and ZVI)
  • Leica (LIF)
  • Olympus (OIB)
  • Nikon ()
• BioFormats has readers and example files for these. It is Java with C++ bindings for ITK, BUT it's GPL.

Software Process

Migration to Git

• Migration Completed
  • Procedure for contributing Patches: http://www.itk.org/Wiki/ITK/Git#Contributing_Patches
• Updating Dashboard Machines to Git
• Contractors to send information to Kitware about the developers who should receive Git write access.
  • (include email and public SSH key)

Clean up Releases

Release Tag	Date	Major Changes
Alpha-01	August 7	VS6,BCC55, SunCC (5.7?), Metrowerks Removal (based on compiler features), Remove large Images
Alpha-02	August 14	CMake Variables configuration cleanup
Alpha-03	August 21	GDCM 2.0, OpenJpeg-v2, +JPEG2000
Alpha-04	August 28	Third party libraries update: TIFF, JPEG, PNG

• Phases

Unit testing framework

A tutorial has been drafted using the Google Testing framework.

Tools

Coding Style

ITKv4_StyleChangeProposal

• Fixing KWStyle/CDash/CTest for Git : Brad Davis report