Documentation/4.2/Developers

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Getting involved 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 Resources Roadmap  NEW What's next ? What's the plan ? Source code repository   NEW Github or SVN CDash Quality Dashboard / Setup a dashboard Nightly, continuous and experimental dashboards. Bug tracker / Register / Report a problem Web-based bug tracking system Doxygen Source code API documentation. Slicer Style Guidelines  NEW Consistency and Readability for a manageable code base Developer Projects Pages for the developer projects. Change logs and release details Informations about Slicer releases Bookmarks A Visual Git Reference		Build instructions Build Slicer application   UPDATED Compiling and installing Slicer from source. Build Module  NEW Compiling slicer modules outside of the slicer source tree. Create Slicer extensions   NEW Build, test, package and distribute extensions Design & Implementation Modules  UPDATED Comparison between the different supported module types Internals 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 IO Mechanism - How to read or write nodes from file Python scripting Presents the underlying infrastructure. Charts Description of the Charting architecture. Build system Details how Slicer is built and packaged. QtTesting Testing framework to test Slicer application. It complements unit tests.		How To Checkout Slicer source   NEW Commit change sets   NEW Create a CLI module or extension Create a Loadable module or extension Create a Scripted module or extension Create an Editor effect Bundle module(s) into a Slicer extension   NEW Write a Self Test Module   NEW Port a CLI to ITKv4  NEW Document a module  NEW Document an extension  NEW Contribute a patch  UPDATED Obtain an API key to submit on the extension server  NEW Upload an extension in the experimental folder  NEW Contribute an extension description file  NEW Setup QtCreator to develop Slicer application or modules Setup a dashboard Use debugger with Slicer application Troubleshoot issues such as crash, or memory leaks Prevent memory leaks Write a widget for Slicer and Qt Designer Use custom widgets in Qt Designer Load UI file from python Pass data between Slicer and Matlab  Experimental

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