ITK/Tcons/Agendas/2011 06 10

How to Join the Tcon

Number to Call

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• 1-800-728-9607 (in the US) or
• +1 9139049873 (international)
• access code 6815251

Webex

• Meeting link
• https://emeetings.webex.com/emeetings/j.php?ED=138191182&UID=482060457&PW=NNzJiNDk1ZGU3

Project Management

June Meeting in Chapel Hill

• Summer_ITKv4_2011_Meeting
• Will take place on June 27-29
• Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
• The Meeting will take place at the Franklin Hotel
• Registration Form
• NEW AGENDA

Schedule

• Transition Plan

BETA RELEASE

• Postponed.
  • New Date : July 31
  • What are the non-ready tasks that led us to postpone the Beta ?
  • Why is that they are not ready ?
  • SCRUM Process
    • Tools: (demo) https://itk.icts.uiowa.edu/jira/secure/Dashboard.jspa
    • Six weeks to Beta release
    • Three Sprints (two weeks each)
    • Defining goals for every sprint
    • Splitting task to 2~3 days granularity
    • Kitware will provide examples

Next ALPHA

• Next Alpha will be tagged on June 15.
  • What will be ready by June 15 ?
    • FEM ?
    • LevelSets ?
    • Registration ?
    • DICOM ?
    • Video ?
    • GPU ?
    • Review ?

ITKv4 Status

• Lack of Focus
• Feature Creep
• Project Schedule
• State of the Refactoring Efforts ?
• State of A2D2 ?

Adopting SCRUM

• We need project planning & tracking

What is SCRUM ?

• • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrum_%28development%29
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprint_%28scrum%29
  • Sprints of 2/3 week
    • Specific targets for that period
    • Decomposed in tasks for 1/2 days each
  • Regular short meetings

Using JIRA at U.Iowa

• Hans setup a Jira installation at U. Iowa
• We could use JIRA to record and track tasks
• Break down targets into sprints
• Break down sprints into tasks
• Tools
  • http://www.atlassian.com/software/greenhopper/
  • http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/

Example

• Sprint for the Summer Meeting
  • What we want ready by that meeting
    • Migration Guide XML uploads to phpfaq
    • Testing data upload (workflow)
    • CVPR Tutorial on ITK+OpenCV
    • Report/Presentation on what is new (&ready) in ITKv4

Kitware

• We have been using SCRUM for about six months
• In three different large projects
• Excellent method for keeping track of goals and intermediate tasks
• Keeps focus
• Leads to rapid solution of roadblocks

Technical Topics

Bug Database

• Defining categories in MANTIS
  • http://www.itk.org/mailman/private/insight-developers/2011-June/019082.html
• Schedule a bug triage session (next week ?)

Review Tasks

• Starting to review classes
  • Checklist
  • Process
• Target: June Meeting
• Review Directory: hackathon
  • All files were classified
  • https://spreadsheets.google.com/a/kitware.com/ccc?key=0ApfVzIsZe0VFdFUxdE95WE5kMVE4LTJ6b3ZYQnpRalE&hl=en&authkey=CMyS68EE#gid=0
  • Missing Insight Journal references were added
  • Now: Select the ones that must be moved into the toolkit
• Finally: We will move the remaining Review directory out of the toolkit and into an external module.

Dashboard

Monolithic Dashboard

• Dashboard Status - Today's Dashboard
• Need more Windows machines in Gerrit builds.

Valgrind Errors

• 2,000 in one Machine? and 0 in another?
  • Almost all of these are NRRD related. Why do we see them on this build and not this other build?

Refactoring Workflow

• Right now
  • code is developed on other remote
  • once the code is mature, we submit to gerrit
  • lost history
  • refactoring may appear as single commit from one person (not team spirit oriented)
• Any other solution?

Teaching ITK

• CVPR Tutorial : June 20th
  • "ITK meets OpenCV"
  • https://github.com/InsightSoftwareConsortium/ITK-OpenCV-Bridge-Tutorial
• MICCAI SimpleITK Tutorial : September
  • https://github.com/SimpleITK/SimpleITK/tree/master/Documentation/Tutorials
• MICCAI ITKv4 Tutorial : September
  • https://github.com/InsightSoftwareConsortium/ITKv4-TheNextGeneration-Tutorial

Gerrit Reviews

• http://review.source.kitware.com/#q,status:open,n,z

SimpleITK

• Doxygen: http://erie.nlm.nih.gov/~blowek1/SimpleITK/index.html
• Github: https://github.com/SimpleITK/SimpleITK