[Dart] FW: [Insight-users] ANN: Transition to CDash is complete

[Blezek, Daniel J., Ph.D.]

Hi all,

  The ITK project has been the main customer for the Dart dashboard
system, and has recently transitioned to CDash.  Kitware is better
positioned to provide long term development/support of CDash than was
ever available for Dart/Dart 2.

Best,
-dan

-----Original Message-----
From: insight-users-bounces at itk.org
[mailto:insight-users-bounces at itk.org] On Behalf Of Bill Lorensen
Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 11:11 AM
To: Insight Developers; Insight Users
Subject: [Insight-users] ANN: Transition to CDash is complete

Folks,

Over the past couple of months, we have transitioned the ITK nightly
build/test dashboard to CDash (http://cdash.org), a new software testing
server developed by Kitware. CDash combines the best features of Dart
Classic and Dart 2 with many new capabilities that provide a robust,
developer friendly system. Like its predecessors, CDash is open source.
CDash is compatible with Dart/Dart 2 and build/test clients that use
ctest will find the transition painless. See the CDash FAQ
http://public.kitware.com/Wiki/CDash:FAQ for more information.

Although Dart and Dart 2 still exist, we do not expect to do any
additional development with either system. Groups supporting their
software with either system can continue to do so.

Please change your bookmarks to the new ITK dashboard:
http://www.cdash.org/CDash/index.php?project=Insight

For a brief history of Dart and the earlier software quality efforts see
http://www.cdash.org/about.html .

I'd like to thank the all of the folks who worked on VTK and ITK
software quality since we started the effort at GE Research ten years
ago.

Special thanks to:

Jim Miller (GE CRD), who shared the pain (and glory?) of the original
nightly dashboards for VTK. This system was a conglomeration of shell
scripts, tcl, grep, make, ssh, etc. See
http://www.cdash.org/download/ExtremeTestingTalk.pdf and
http://www.cdash.org/download/VTKExtremeTesting.pdf .

Dan Blezek (GE CRD, now Mayo), who with Jim, designed the client/server
architecture that became Dart and the the database/xml schema for
software testing. Dan's early work with Frost, a GE CRD internal
project, paved the way for using a database to contain test results.

Pascale Rondot (GE CRD, now Lockheed), who designed the look of the
Dashboards.

Andy Cedilnik (Kitware, now Tivo) who replaced the Dart tcl client with
ctest and really made the software quality process easy for developers.

Terry Yoo (National Library of Medicine) whose vision and funding of
CMake/CTest/Dart enabled all of us to sustain the quality and
portability of ITK, VTK, CMake and others.

Ron Kikinis (Brigham and Womens Hospital) who through NA-MIC, the
National Alliance for Medical Image Computing (http://na-mic.org)
continues to fund open source software quality efforts.

Kitware for sustained support and commitment to open source software
quality efforts through various funding mechanisms.

GE for forcing us to take the 6 Sigma training that seeded the passion
many of us still have for software quality.

Regards,

Bill
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