Developer Meetings/20150825

To Discuss

• Update of the G+ community management process. See #3DSlicer BarCamp moderators.
• Plan for 4.5 release. See http://wiki.slicer.org/slicerWiki/index.php/Roadmap#Releases

Conclusion

• Jorge made good progress setting up MacOSX dashboard for slicer-miniconda. See here
• Provenance: Integrate document describing build environment into the binaries. A final DICOM should be released shortly. In the mean time, most of the concepts are summarized here

• Release 4.5 / Pre-release schedule:
  • Notify community
  • Create google doc draft for sending email about the coming release
  • Create a roadmap/ vision (copy idea from Ron slides at bisti.nih.gov)
  • When: Prior to RSNA (Nov 29 to Dec 4) - See http://www.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/RSNA_2015
  • "Freeze" time frame: Mid-October
  • Confirm existing tutorials work as expected + add missing SelfTests
  • Green dashboard
  • Push to improve startup performance
  • Check with Sonia what are the requirements to have Slicer installed on the workstations
  • Check with Csaba/Andras about:
    • new Editor/Segmentation ?
    • integrating Sequences module into the core ?

• Post 4.5:
  • The 4.x series will be for bug fixes / performance improvements

• 5.x series:
  • Update to Qt 5 ?
  • Switch to OpenGL2 backend for VTK
  • Switch to py3k

To be determined: use miniconda distribution by default. Things look promising so far.

References

3DSlicer BarCamp moderators

Hi Folks,

To simplify the Slicer G+ community management, I was thinking to change the settings so that anyone could join without approval.

It has been like this for ITK for a while and they didn't have any spam.

If we all agree, I will:

  (1) update the following wiki page and accept all pending requests:

     http://wiki.slicer.org/slicerWiki/index.php/Documentation/Nightly/FAQ/BarCamp#Moderators:_How_to_approve.2Freject_requests_.3F

  (2)  also update the "Start Here" page to ask develop to optionally introduce them self on the slicer devel list. See http://wiki.slicer.org/slicerWiki/index.php/Documentation/Nightly/Developers/StartHere


Let me know what you think,

Thanks