[VTK ARB] Fwd: Meeting minutes

[Jeff Baumes]

You may have seen this recent post from David Doria on the VTK
developers list. It was an ad-hoc meeting that started with just
getting to know David but ended up with several good ideas for the
advancement of VTK.

In a reply, David Gobbi appreciated the transparency of documenting
the meeting. We should probably follow suit and post our meeting notes
to the VTK developers list.

I'll work on finding a date that will work for our next meeting.

Jeff

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Doria <daviddoria+vtk at gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 4:03 PM
Subject: [vtk-developers] Meeting minutes
To: VTK Developers <vtk-developers at vtk.org>


All,

Thanks for a good meeting this afternoon. It may be worth scheduling
these once in a while. I've taken the liberty to summarize the
discussion. I have also posted it here for posterity:
http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/VTK/Meeting_Minutes/December_17,_2009
I have bolded the action items for those it may concern. Volunteers
for this missing "whos" are welcome!!

==Examples==
Bill Lorensen and David D. will continue cleaning up examples and move
them into the repository. An undergraduate intern could potentially
help with this. David D. will do some recruiting. Bill is setting up a
clever testing system so the examples can be tested without adding
anything to the code.

==Junior Jobs (JJ)==
A way to mark bugs as "easy to fix" for beginners to get their hands
wet. This would be a nice addition to mantis. How would we implement
this?

==Dashboard division==
It would be nice to divide the VTK dashboard into sections (Graphics,
Filters, etc) using the new CDash functionality Bill Hoffman
demonstrated. This would alleviate the problem of receiving a
dashboard error email every time you commit something even if it has
nothing to do with your change. Who can implement this?

==VTK Journal Repository==
Submitting code to the VTK journal is slightly awkward, and
maintaining it (zipping and resubmitting) is hard. Adding a sandbox
repository or teaching everyone how to use git functionality to "post"
code is a good idea. Who can look into this?

==StackOverflow for VTK==
(http://stackoverflow.com/) Enabling a new means of communication to
end users may allow us to get feedback from a larger group. This
forum-type setting can be moderated by some intermediate level users
(David D. volunteered) and problems can be "promoted" to the user or
devel mailing list if they are not solved by peer users. This will
free up some of the experts time to work on larger issues. Marcus has
volunteered to look into this.

==VTK Conference/Workshop==
Luis mentioned we may be thinking about hosting a
workshop/hack-a-thon/camp. Maybe meetings like todays can become a
little more regular and we can evolve it into a bigger event with some
more outsiders?


Please let me know if I missed anything.
Thanks,

David D.
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