ITK/Tcons/Agendas/2010 11 02

How to Join the Tcon

Number to Call

• 1-800-728-9607 (in the US) or
• +1 9139049873 (international)
• access code 6815251

Webex

• Meeting link
• https://emeetings.webex.com/emeetings/j.php?ED=138191182&UID=482060457&PW=NNzJiNDk1ZGU3

Project Management

Task Order #2

• Draft received by some contractors
• To be sent back to Terry ASAP.

November Meeting in Iowa

• Date of next meeting:
  • November 2010
  • Location: Iowa
• Fall ITKv4 2010 Meeting
  • Draft Agenda:
    • Fall ITKv4 2010 Meeting#Meeting_Agenda
    • Note Suggested Gerrit hands-on Workshop

February Meeting

• Set for February 2-3, 2011 in Boston at Harvard Medical School.
  • A link to a web site for registration and hotel information will be sent shortly.

Technical Topics

Previous Meeting Action Items

• Minutes_101910#Action_Items

LICENSING Changes

• Completed.
• Copyright headers in all ITK files were changed.
  • Thanks to Hans Johnson for crafting and sharing the script.
  • Thanks to the reviewers for looking at such a large commit.
• Licensing Summary in ITK Wiki

Simple ITK

• Time to wrap-up the survey.
• ARB Meeting on Wednesday November 3, 2010 at 10am.
• 11/3/2010
• Take the survey - http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/SimpleITKCommunitySurvey
• Survey results - http://www.surveymonkey.com/sr.aspx?sm=7s_2f_2baOS0Pe06OO2dWBU_2btf8RPSPzgi8HGlud9B0ILsg_3d

Dashboard

• Dashboard Status - Today's Dashboard

Failing Tests

• DeformableRegistration8 in eldorado (the only machine that runs these tests)

Open Gerrit Reviews

• We got new reviewers !
  • Now we have 23
  • http://www.itk.org/Wiki/ITK/Gerrit/Reviewers#From_Gerrit
  • http://review.source.kitware.com/#admin,group,5
• Open reviews
  • Currently open
• The need for decoupling Numeric Traits from Vector-like containers
  • http://review.source.kitware.com/#change,224

Migration Guide Process

• Users Migration Guide
  • What Developers Must Do To Contribute to the Users Migration Guide
• Example XML
  • http://review.source.kitware.com/#patch,sidebyside,224,2,Migration/DecoupleNumericTraitsFromContainers.xml

ITKv4-A02

• Let's tag now
  • And make libtiff4 update the item for ITKv4-A03
  • So that at the November meeting we can proceed to spawn Git topic branches

ITKv4-A03

• Target to cut it by Nov 15th

Level Set

• Refactoring page
  • Refactoring Level-Set framework - V4
• Tcon Happened
  • Level Set GPU Local Meeting in Boston 2010-10-14

Modularization

• Xiaoxiao Liu (at Kitware) to start working on partitioning the toolkit

TIFF Update

• Brad King addressed the int issues
• Currently at

 git fetch git://kwsource.kitwarein.com/~bradking/itk/bradkings-itk.git +libtiff4beta6:libtiff4beta6

• Luis resuming it
  • Need to coordinate with Arnaud to build it in Mac 10.5
  • Will submit it to Gerrit again soon.

Image Registration Revision

• Mailing list was created:
  • http://public.kitware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/insight-registration
  • and announced:
  • http://www.itk.org/pipermail/insight-users/2010-September/038232.html

• Discussion at MICCAI

• • Maybe resume on October ? 10am EST ?
• Past tcon:
  • Tcon 2010-09-07

Registration Topic Page

• Enhancing Image Registration Framework

Related Discussions

• Ziv Yaniv to summarize
• Is the | refactoring of the optimization framework going to be considered for itkv4?

DICOM

Dan and Mathieu to report

• Beginnings of a requirements document. Comments welcome.
• Proposed TConf

Gerrit Code Review

• Details in the ITK Gerrit Wiki page
• URL: http://review.source.kitware.com/
• Are all developers registered?
  • You only need an OpenID
• Phases

CDash @ Home

• Zach Mullen to report
• cdash@home progress
• Prototype will be ready by Nov meeting.

Doxygen

(Arnaud)

Recent version of doxygen (>= 1.7.0) runs multiple instances of dot in parallel!!!

Tests with doxygen 1.7.1, on a 6 cores machine 12Gb RAM

• with unmodified doxygen.config.in 330 min
• by changing cache size (and tweaking few parameters) 311 min
• Could it be improved?

Sequestered Reference Applications

We have already made significant changes, and they are not being recorded yet. It is time to setup these reference applications.

Ongoing

• V3D Plugins
• Slicer
• VV
• Insight Applications now submitting
  • Broken: need to use it as an example for the Migration Guide.

Development Versions following ITKv4

• OTB
  • http://dash.orfeo-toolbox.org/buildSummary.php?buildid=29602
• GoFigure2
  • Nightly build use the current ITKv4.
  • http://my.cdash.org/index.php?project=GoFigure2

Pending

• IGSTK
• Insight Applications (ITKApps from v3.20)
• ITK tests from v3.20

Wrapping

• Status (Alex)
• Wrapping

ITK Readers for Microscopy formats

• There's a need for readers in the microscopy community in order to be able to use ITK
  • Zeiss (LSM and ZVI)
  • Leica (LIF)
  • Olympus (OIB)
  • Nikon ()
• BioFormats has readers and example files for these. It is Java with C++ bindings for ITK, BUT it's GPL.

Coding Style

ITKv4_StyleChangeProposal

• Fixing KWStyle/CDash/CTest for Git : Brad Davis report

• The Google C+++ Style Guide is a good example of a style guide. Although the specifics may differ, the format and coverage of this guide is very nice. We may consider producing a similar Guide for ITKv4.

Uncrustify Code Cleanup (Hans)

• Status?

Software Process

Migration to Git

• Migration Completed
  • Procedure for contributing Patches: http://www.itk.org/Wiki/ITK/Git#Contributing_Patches
• Updating Dashboard Machines to Git
• Contractors to send information to Kitware about the developers who should receive Git write access.
  • (include email and public SSH key)

Clean up Releases

Release Tag	Date	Major Changes
Alpha-01	August 7	VS6,BCC55, SunCC (5.7?), Metrowerks Removal (based on compiler features), Remove large Images
Alpha-02	August 14	CMake Variables configuration cleanup
Alpha-03	August 21	GDCM 2.0, OpenJpeg-v2, +JPEG2000
Alpha-04	August 28	Third party libraries update: TIFF, JPEG, PNG

• Phases

Unit testing framework

A tutorial has been drafted using the Google Testing framework.