ITK/Release Schedule

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The next release is 3.18 scheduled for Jan 6 2010.

Release Life Cycle

Last period for adding classes and features

  • New classes will be selected from good reviews from the Insight Journal
  • New features and new methods can be added during this period.

Feature Freeze

  • Increase code coverage
    • address any UNTESTED files
    • address files with code coverage lower than 80%
  • Address Run-time memory issues
    • Purify reports
    • Valgrind reports

CVS Tagging

The repository is tagged by using two tags, one for the reference, and another for the branch.

Posting Tarballs

  • Tarballs are posted to SourceForge
  • Tarballs are linked from the ITK Download











Release 3.14 Schedule

Release Number Start Date End Date
Moving code from ITK Review Directory to final destination March 15 2009 May 24 2009
Reviewing Insight Journal (IJ) March 15 2009 May 15 2009
Selecting IJ papers April 1 2009 May 15 2009
Bug triage April 1 2009 April 7 2009
Moving IJ code into ITK Review Directory April 1 2009 May 24 2009
Feature freeze, fixing tests, code coverage May 25 2009 May 29 2009
CVS Tagging May 30 2009 May 30, 2009
Testing tarballs May 30 2009 May 30 2009
Posting tarballs May 31 2009 May 31 2009

Insight Journal Papers to move to Review

Current suggested list:

Part A

Part B


Release 3.16 Schedule

Release Number Start Date End Date
Moving code from ITK Review Directory to final destination June 15 2009 Aug 7 2009
Reviewing Insight Journal (IJ) June 15 2009 July 31 2009
Selecting IJ papers June 15 2009 July 15 2009
Bug triage Aug 1 2009 Aug 15 2009
Moving IJ code into ITK Review Directory June 15 2009 Aug 7 2009
Feature freeze, fixing tests, code coverage Aug 8 2009 Sept 9 2009
CVS Tagging Sept 9 2009 Sept 9, 2009
Testing tarballs Sept 10 2009 Sept 10 2009
Posting tarballs Sept 10 2009 Sept 10 2009

Insight Journal Papers to move to Review

Review Articles to be Moved

Current suggested list:

  • itkTransformReader
    • (and associated factories)
  • Multi-threaded Registration
  • Consolidated Morphology
    • These classes need a code walk through to review Method names, especially internally used names. There are several that do not conform to ITK naming conventions. (e.g. itkBoxUtilities: setConnectivityEarlyBox
  • Binary Functor Filters
    • AddConstant, DivideByConstant, MultiplyByConstant, SubtractConstantFrom


Release 3.18 Schedule

Release Number Start Date End Date
Moving code from ITK Review Directory to final destination Oct 1 2009 Nov 15 2009
Reviewing Insight Journal (IJ) Oct 1 2009 Nov 1 2009
Selecting IJ papers Oct 15 2009 Nov 1 2009
Bug triage Oct 1 2009 Oct 15 2009
Moving IJ code into ITK Review Directory Nov 1 2009 Dec 14 2009
Feature freeze, fixing tests, code coverage Dec 15 2009 Jan 8 2010
CVS Tagging January 8 2010 January 8, 2010
Testing tarballs January 9 2010 January 9 2010
Posting tarballs January 10 2010 January 10 2010

Insight Journal papers to Move for ITK 3.18

Check-list for Moving Code from IJ to Review and from Review

For IJ Articles To Review

  • Responsible developer should add a review before moving into local copy of Review. Please provide authors with feedback regarding changes that were made to conform to ITK style/documentation etc.

For Adding Images to Input or Baseline

  • Images should be SMALL.
    • The source tree is not an image database, but a source code repository.
    • Adding an image larger than 50Kb should be justified by a discussion in the Developers list
    • Make sure that you use the "cvs add -kb" option when adding binary files to the CVS repository.
  • Regression images should not use Analyze format unless the test is for the AnalyzeImageIO and related classes.
  • Images should use non-trivial Metadata.
    • Origin should be different form zeros
    • Spacing should be different from ones, and it should be anisotropic
    • Direction should be different from Identity

For Moving Code From Review

  • At least one independent (other than contributor) should sign off on the API
  • Coverage should be as close to 100% as possible.
    • and never lower than 90%.
    • For example, itkTransformIOBase.cxx is only at 63% coverage. Should be easily fixed by adding a Print() to one of the tests.

For All

  • Check all comments for proper English
  • Should pass KWStyle. IJ articles should be checked with KWStyle before checking into repository.
  • Should pass PrintSelf. IJ articles should pass PrintSelf check before checking into repository.
  • ITK_EXPORT should appear in each class definition. This triggers the PrintSelf checker.
  • Replace itkGetMacro with itkGetConstMacro.
  • Header file should contain Insight Journal citation
    • Using the "handle" link.
  • Use vcl verions of all transcendental functions.
    • For example, itkGaborKernelFunction used sin() and cos() rather than vcl_sin() and vcl_cos().
  • Progress should be present for all filters. Use itk::SimplerFilterWatcher to exercise progress and PrintSelfs.
  • When appropriate, class should handle image directions. Tests should use non-default values for origin, spacing and dimension.
    • GaborImageSource did not provide methods to set/get directions.
  • Regression tests names should when possible have the same name as the test.
  • Exceptions should be descriptive and provide as much information as possible
  • Member data should be private with access if required through Get methods.

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