Developer Meetings/20160308

To Discuss

Next patch release

• Will be version as 4.5.2 (to avoid confusion between 4.5.0-1 and 4.5.1)

• Selected patches:
  • r24811 BUG: CLI several module GUI bugs. Fixes issues #4090, #2402 and #2842
  • r24930 BUG: Fix crash in CLI module widget. Fixes issue #4141
  • r24861 BUG: Fix display node copy in CloneVolume. Fixes issue #4109
  • r24862 STYLE: Refactor vtkSlicerVolumesLogicTest1. See issue #4109
  • r24890 ENH: Add test for CloneVolume in vtkSlicerVolumesLogicTest1. See issue #4109

Possible patches:

• • r24947 BUG: Fix the ITK Python install site-packages location.
  • r24933 COMP: Support toggling of Slicer_BUILD_ITKPython option.
  • r24932 ENH: Update ITK version
  • r24892 BUG: ITKPython: Add PYTHONPATH support to the launcher for ITK build tree.

Questions:

• Patch release date ?
  • Jc: Considering I will be travelling next week (March 12 to 19), it will most likely happen at the end of the month.
• Is it okay to update version of ITK (r24932, r24933, r24947 and r24892) ?
  • Jc: Considering that (1) the ITK version update consists of around ~500 ITK commits andn (2) it also requires substantial updates in Slicer transform code and BRAINSTools. These are outside of the scope of this patch release.

cd Slicer-SuperBuild-Release/ITKv4
$ git lg 0305504...84ba36b --no-merges | wc -l
503

Updates

• Nicole: SlicerOpenCV extension has been added to the extension index
• Andras: Addition of new layout including a table node viewer
• Jc: We now have dedicated Amazon resources for Slicer and ITK testing. Corresponding resources will be managed using Jenkins and will initially be used for Continuous testing.
• Steve:
  • multivolume+transform: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fV7rh76vBvs
  • WebGL GrowCut: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-OMVGRGGHM
• David Warren (from VTK list): Volume rendering of brain volumes with overlays : https://bitbucket.org/dewarrn1/vtk_render_demo

Conclusion

• Steve and Nicole reviewed patch plans. Agreed that 4.5.2 should contain the 5 suggested patches. We were a bit unclear on the question of updating ITK - @jcfr are you saying that BRAINSTools and Slicer Transforms would need fixing if we update ITK? If so, we suggest not updating ITK for the patch.