<br>As many of you may know, we are working on<br>a major new version of ITK:<br><br><br> This will be ITKv4.<br><br><br><br>The main goals for ITKv4 are:<br><br> (1) Revising, <br> (2) Accelerating, <br>
(3) Simplifying and <br> (4) Improving DICOM support in ITK.<br><br><br>To that end we have drafted a Transition Plan to go<br>from ITK 3.20 to ITKv4. The current form of this plan<br>is available in the Wiki page:<br>
<br><a href="http://www.itk.org/Wiki/ITK_Release_4/Migration_Plan">http://www.itk.org/Wiki/ITK_Release_4/Migration_Plan</a><br><br><br>A schematic representation of th plan is available at:<br><br><a href="http://www.itk.org/Wiki/File:ITKv4-TransitionPlanProposal.png">http://www.itk.org/Wiki/File:ITKv4-TransitionPlanProposal.png</a><br>
<br><br><br>The intermediate Phases of the Transition Plan<br>have been sketched out in<br><br><a href="http://www.itk.org/Wiki/ITK_Release_4/Migration_Plan/Phases">http://www.itk.org/Wiki/ITK_Release_4/Migration_Plan/Phases</a><br>
<br>an equivalent document is available at:<br><a href="http://www.itk.org/Wiki/images/5/5c/ITKv4-TransitionPlan-Draft.pdf">http://www.itk.org/Wiki/images/5/5c/ITKv4-TransitionPlan-Draft.pdf</a><br><br><br><br>Please share with us your impression on how<br>
the current transition plan may impact your use<br>of ITK.<br><br><br>---<br><br><br>At this point, we have executed:<br><br>* Release of ITK 3.20 : July 15th<br><br>We are now in the process of:<br><br>* Porting ITK from CVS to Git.<br>
<br>As we move to Git, a lot of effort is being invested <br>in preserving the CVS history.<br><br>We anticipate that ITK-Git will be settle by the end of July.<br><br><br>It is therefore a good moment for you to start learning Git. :-)<br>
<br>Resources are available at:<br><a href="http://git-scm.com/documentation">http://git-scm.com/documentation</a><br><br>We recommend that you start by watching this talk<br>that Linus Torvals gave at Google:<br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8</a><br>
<br>Then follow up with the official Git tutorial<br><br><a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/gittutorial.html">http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/gittutorial.html</a><br><br>( but, please note that there are many other <br>
resources available for learning Git )<br><br><br>--<br><br><br>We will appreciate any suggestions on how to<br>improve the Transition Plan, and how to minimize<br>the effort that users will have to invest for migrating<br>
to ITKv4.<br><br><br><br><br> Thanks<br><br><br><br> Luis<br><br><br>