Documentation/Labs

This is the place where we will keep track of our experiments and projects.

On-going

Roadmap

• Slicer 5

Internals

• NrrdReading_Writing_Optimizations
• OpenGLFilters
• DeprecatedModules extension
• FHS compliant directory structure
• Fiber Tract measurement and visualization
• VTK Widgets improvements
• CLI infrastructure cleanup and refactoring
• Upgrading Compiler Infrastructure
• View Infrastructure Improvements
• CDash Improvements
• SlicerBridge
• Continuous Integration and Nightly packages build infrastructure
• Parameter Serializer support for CLIs
• Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality support
• Infrastucture Status
• Improving Slicer Packages Download experience
• Sequences
• Improving Markups

Libraries

• Design: Addition of orientation to VTK data structures

Python

• Calling Python methods from Cpp
• IPython
• Python conda build

Compilers & IDE

• Modernize to c++11

The use of auto

 run-clang-tidy.py -checks=-*,modernize-use-auto  -header-filter=.* -fix 

The automatic fix use auto in cases where static_cast is used:

 - int a = static_cast<int>(something);
 + auto a = static_cast<int>(something);

No much gain on this particular case, however, when using iterators and other verbose types, it really helps readability.

The change should be discussed with the main developers to reach a consensus. VTK and ITK are using auto in a lot of cases.

Move not implemented constructors and assignment operators to the public interface

Now that we use = delete, we don't need the constructors and assignment operator to be in the private interface. Moving them to the public interface is better. Including better integrations with IDE's.

Virtual Machines

• GPU Virtualization

Documentation

• Documentation Improvements (Wiki, website, ...)
• Intermediate documentation for developers

Tutorials

• IPython Slicer Tutorials

Source code management

• Transition to Git

Extension

• Extensions Framework Roadmap
• Custom Slicer Generator
• Improving Extensions Metadata

Functionalities

• Fly-through Navigation
• Automatic Update and Installation Framework
• Application usage analytics
• Plotting 2D Line Segments

Packaging

• [[Documentation/Labs/HomebrewCask|Homebrew Cask]

Completed

• Developer Projects

Extension

• Easy Extension Contribution - See ExtensionWizard

Internals

• Slicer startup time improvement
• CMake-ified Python - See r21911, r21912, r21913
• Full support for non-linear transforms

Libraries

• Migration to Qt5 and VTK8
• Integration with OpenCV
• ITKv4
• Qt484
• VTK6
• VTK7

Python

• Pip
• Development with Git - See r21863, r21867, r21869, r21879, r21891
• Python observer callbacks

Compilers & IDE

• Ninja
• VS2012
• Support for Numpy 1.7.1

Modules

• Simple Filters
• Editor

Tutorials testing

• 4.3 Release

Debug

• BRAINS and ITKv4 issue

Internals

• Segmentations
• MultiDimensional Data Management
• DICOM Export
• Slice View Annotations
• Subject hierarchy module and plugins
• Internationalization
• Units
• SlicerExecutionModel Parameter Serialization

Abandoned

• SlicerConfig and UseSlicer Tweaks