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color=#0000ff size=2>David,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=921165616-26012007><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>For some reason the continuous e-mail's on errors have
stopped working. Can you check into this?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=921165616-26012007><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Also, it would be good for you to call into our weekly
developer t-con at 1:00PM on Fridays. This is a good time to remind people of
how they should be dealing with dashboard problems.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2>Thanks,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=921165616-26012007><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Bill</FONT></SPAN></DIV><BR>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B>
insight-developers-bounces+lorensen=crd.ge.com@itk.org
[mailto:insight-developers-bounces+lorensen=crd.ge.com@itk.org] <B>On Behalf Of
</B>David Cole<BR><B>Sent:</B> Friday, January 26, 2007 11:54 AM<BR><B>To:</B>
Will Schroeder<BR><B>Cc:</B> insight-users@itk.org;
insight-developers@itk.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Insight-developers] Re: ITK
Dashboard cleanup<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>Thanks for the intro, Will. Many of you will know me from my postings
on the VTK mailing lists. For those of you that don't, looks like you'll get to
know me here over the coming weeks...<BR><BR>I'll try not to be too harsh even
though I've been directed to be ruthless. If I seem harsh, hopefully it's just
because email's a medium that makes it difficult to communicate emotion.
<BR><BR>Looking back at the dashboard over the last month or so shows the
average number of daily changes to ITK is somewhere in the 40-50 range. I'm
going to start by trying to encourage all of you to eliminate build errors and
warnings. Then we'll move on to test failures. I will be making some changes
myself to eliminate some problems. <BR><BR>If I notice that a warning or error
or test failure is directly related to a particular commit, I will contact the
author directly by email or phone to rectify the issue in a timely
manner.<BR><BR>Then, once it's in that blissful state of dashboard green-ness,
it will be easier to discern what new commits are related to what new failures.
<BR><BR><BR>Looking forward to getting to know more of you,<BR>David
Cole<BR>Kitware, Inc.<BR><BR><BR>
<DIV><SPAN class=gmail_quote>On 1/24/07, <B class=gmail_sendername>Will
Schroeder</B> <<A href="mailto:will.schroeder@kitware.com">
will.schroeder@kitware.com</A>> wrote:</SPAN>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=gmail_quote
style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid">Folks-<BR><BR>The
ITK dashboard has been less than green for too long now. As I <BR>result, I
have tasked Dave Cole to clean up the dashboard. (Dave<BR>recently did a fine
job cleaning the VTK dashboard.) I have directed<BR>Dave to be ruthless with
his efforts; many lingering problems need<BR>cleaning even if it means
removing code or touching sacred cows. <BR><BR>The motivation for doing this,
besides the fact that we care about the<BR>quality of the system, is that the
ITK program manager Dr. Terry Yoo at<BR>the National Library of Medicine,
supports Kitware to maintain and <BR>extend the software, and rightfully
expects the quality to remain high.<BR>Also, other efforts such as NIH's US
National Centers of Biomedical<BR>Computation, in particular NAMIC (the
National Alliance of Medical Image <BR>Computing <A
href="http://na-mic.org">na-mic.org</A>, which is now developing the next
generation<BR>Slicer3 application <A
href="http://www.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/Slicer3">http://www.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/Slicer3
</A>),<BR>depend on stable, quality software. And I'm sure many of you in the
ITK<BR>community have your own research and/or applications that will
benefit<BR>from these efforts.<BR><BR>So please bear with us as we clean
house. If you wish to help that's <BR>great, we welcome any contributions that
aim to improve the system's<BR>quality. Feel free to contact Dave if you'd
like to coordinate with him<BR>on
assignments.<BR><BR>Will<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>