Agenda&Status 042007

Agenda

Project Management

• Schedule
  • Next release 3.4 http://www.itk.org/Wiki/ITK_Release_Schedule#Release_3.4_Schedule
  • Feature freeze June 1st 2007
  • Release June 30th 2007

Technical Topics

• MersenneTwister Random number generator Singleton versus MultiThreaded issues.
  • Crashes when called from multiple threads because it modify static variables
  • It was converted to singleton in order to make testing deterministic. (seed initialization)
  • Are mutex locks prohibitive ?
  • How to fix it and still keep Backward Compatibility ?
• ResampleImageFilter new ReferenceImage had no test.
  • How to prevent developers from adding new features without a test ?
  • ResampleImageFilter was using an extra member variable and using a second input.
• VectorResample filter API
  • adjusting API to fit the ResampleImageFilter (TODO)
• Statistics classes refactoring (to be included in ITK 3.4)
  • Refactoring Statistics Framework 2007
  • Analysis of class structures
    • Class Manifesto
  • Subsamples
  • Iterators Iterators Review
  • Status: Action Items
  • DEPRECATION STRATEGY
    • Keep old classes around for 2 or 3 releases
    • Add CMake option to select at configuration time between the old Statistics and the new ones
    • Provide a migration guide: for all old classes, describe which new classes are replacing them.