Documentation/4.3/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  NEW 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 Developer Projects Pages for the developer projects. Labs   NEW Keep track of on-going experiments. Change logs and release details Informations about Slicer releases		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 How to control the layout of the views 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 Details how Slicer is built and packaged. QtTesting Testing framework to test Slicer application. It complements unit tests.		How To Checkout Slicer source   NEW Setup for Git development   NEW Commit change sets Contribute a patch Integrate topic from external contributor  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   UPDATED Build module outside of Slicer source tree   NEW Write a Self Test Module   NEW Upload test data on Midas   NEW Document a module Document an extension Obtain an API key to submit on the extension server Contribute an extension description file  NEW Build an ExtensionsIndex  NEW Port a CLI to ITKv4  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

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