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="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">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>