[vtk-developers] ANN: All VTK commits through the topic stage

[Marcus D. Hanwell]

Hi,

As previously announced on September 23, the VTK topic stage is available to 
merge in topic branches. From Thursday October 14 all commits to VTK will need 
to be made through the topic stage, and direct pushes to the VTK repository 
will be disabled.

Please see the relevant section on the VTK wiki for further details,

http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Git#Topic_Stage

If you have any commits on your local master, they can easily be made into 
topic branches with a one line command (on your master),

git checkout -b my_topic

The topic my_topic will now point to a topic branch containing the commits 
that were on your local master. To see what commits would be pushed to the 
topic stage you can use,

git fetch origin
git log origin/master..

You are encouraged to begin using the stage immediately, direct pushes to VTK 
will be disabled on Thursday. Everyone with push access to VTK has push access 
to the VTK stage. The next branch has not yet been added - this is planned 
once a few more issues with multiple integration branches have been ironed 
out.

Please let us know if you have any problems using the topic stage. I plan on 
adding some convenience scripts and macros, similar to the ones used in Titan 
and ITK, to simplify the process for those wishing to use them.

Thanks,

Marcus
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Marcus D. Hanwell, Ph.D.
R&D Engineer, Kitware Inc.
(518) 881-4937