Agenda&Status 101210

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

November Meeting

• 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

• PIs to send calendar conflicts to Terry

Technical Topics

Previous Meeting Action Items

• Minutes_100510
• All Done !!

LICENSING Changes

• Stephen was right last tcon, the licensing changes have not been applied yet to ITK's source tree.
• The changes were applied on Wednesday
• Licensing
• LICENSE file: has the Apache 2.0 license
• NOTICE file: has the copyright notice and a manifesto of all other third party pieces of code that ITK carries.
  • Please review to see if anything is missing. This was taken from the Debian distribution of ITK 3.16.
• Copyright headers in all ITK files must be changed now
  • Proposal is here : File Header Changes
• PENDING:
  • Change the license in the Web site:
    • http://www.itk.org/ITK/project/license.html

Patented Code Removed

• Files related to patented methods were removed on Friday.
  • YEAH !!
• Patented methods are welcome as long as the patent assignee provides a license compatible with the terms of the Apache 2.0 license:
  • Patent Licensing:

...a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable (except as stated in this section) patent license to make, have made, use, offer to sell, sell, import, and otherwise transfer the Work...

Dashboard

• Dashboard Status - Today's Dashboard
• Mathieu and Luis to report on openjpeg & gdcm
• Freezing until clean

Failing Tests

• itkGDCMImageIOTest5
• itkImageFileWriterStreamingPastingCompressingTest_DCM
• itkJPEG2000Test05 # FIXED
• itkJPEG2000Test06
• itkOptImageToImageMetricsTest04

Open Gerrit Reviews

The number of open reviews is growing. Currently open

ITKv4-A02

• • openjpeg related

Level Set

• Refactoring page
  • Refactoring Level-Set framework - V4
• Tcon Happened
  • Tcon 2010-09-10
  • Arnaud/Kishore organizing local meeting in Boston/Cambridge

Modularization

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

TIFF Update

• TIFF 4.0 has been added to github branch:
  • http://github.com/luisibanez/ITK/tree/libtiff4beta6
• libtiff4.0
  • CMakeified
  • Available in github at:
    • http://github.com/arnaudgelas/libtiff-4.0
    • http://github.com/luisibanez/libtiff-4.0
• Dashboard at:
  • http://my.cdash.org/index.php?project=libtiff
  • Target Date September 15th
  • Remaining issues:
    • Multi-platform configuration
      • Particularly: Definition of Integer types.

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?

Simple ITK

• Time to wrap-up the survey.
• Your last chance to send it to target communities.
• Take the survey - http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/SimpleITKCommunitySurvey
• Survey results - http://www.surveymonkey.com/sr.aspx?sm=7s_2f_2baOS0Pe06OO2dWBU_2btf8RPSPzgi8HGlud9B0ILsg_3d

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.

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

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.

Tools

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?