Revision as of 15:52, 2 December 2005

Introduction

This page describes the procedure for contributing new algorithms and classes to the Insight Toolkit.

The rationale behind this procedure is to pursue the following goals

Technical correctness of new contributions
Avoid duplication of functionalities
Maximize reuse of existing code
Maximize generalization of the algorithm implementations
Enforce validation, testing and code coverage
Maximize maintainability
Ensure that new algorithms are properly documented
Gather feedback from the community
Hold a continuously open forum where algorithmic, and performance issues are discussed.

Since some of these goals may be conflicting, it will be the prerrogative of the Oversight Committee ITK_Oversight_Committee

to rule on whether one criteria should be given more importance over another one.

The procedure for contributing new classes and algorithms is the following.

An Author will propose an algorithm to the developers list or to the weekly tcon.
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