Documentation/Nightly/Developers

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Getting involved Start here New community member checklist Developer meetings It is open to everyone, feel free to join. Developers mailing list / Sign-up / Browse archives Intended for discussion of programming related questions FAQ Set of common development questions/answers Resources Roadmap  UPDATED What's next ? What's the plan ? Source code repository Github or SVN CDash Quality Dashboard / Setup a dashboard Nightly, continuous and experimental dashboards. Bug tracker / Register / Report a problem / Contribute a patch Web-based bug tracking system - Configuration Doxygen Source code API documentation. Slicer Style Guidelines Consistency and Readability for a manageable code base Labs   NEW Keep track of on-going experiments. Change logs and release details Informations about Slicer releases Resources List Slicer resources and who to contact in case of problem.		Build instructions Create Slicer extensions   UPDATED Build, test, package and distribute extensions Build Slicer application Compiling and installing Slicer from source. Build Module Compiling slicer modules outside of the slicer source tree. Design & Implementation Modules Comparison between the different supported module types Data Model / MRML Objects and their organization. MRML Library provides API for managing medical image data type Logics Details the role of MRML/Slicer/Application/Modules logics and Displayable managers Layouts   UPDATED How to control the layout of the views Slice Orientation Presets   NEW How to manage slice orientation presets Slicelets Create simple standalone applications (slicelets) IO Mechanism How to read or write nodes from file Python scripting Presents the underlying infrastructure. Charts Description of the Charting architecture. Directory Structure Files location in the build and install tree. Qt Plugins How to build and load Qt plugins. Build system / Release process / Factory description Details how Slicer is built and packaged. QtTesting Testing framework to test Slicer application. It complements unit tests.		Migration Guide How to update Slicer extension code following breaking changes in Slicer or dependent toolkits (VTK, ITK, Qt, ...) Source code How-tos How to checkout the source and contribute patches Module How-tos How to create or build modules, how to add or update remote modules Testing How-tos How to write tests and manage testing data Documentation How-tos How to document module or extension Extension How-tos How to contribute, build or package extensions Misc How-tos How to setup QtCreator, setup dashboard, work with QtDesigner, port modules Debugging instructions: https://slicer.readthedocs.io/en/latest/developer_guide/debugging/index.html

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