[Insight-developers] Q: current procedure for code contributions?

[Torsten Rohlfing]

Hi --

My apologies if this is a stupid question, but I am a little confused. I 
was wondering what the current procedure is for code contributions to 
ITK? I am mostly asking about entirely new classes, not mere bug fixes 
and patches to existing code.

I am still sitting on a pile of code, among them an algorithm for simple 
DTI fiber tracking and an implementation of the multi-class STAPLE 
algorithm. For now, I have put them up for download at 
http://www.stanford.edu/~rohlfing/software/index.html, but it would be 
quite nice if I could get rid of these sometimes.

Last time I tried to send some code (the fiber tracking classes), I 
remember being referred to the Insight Journal. Having checked there, I 
can't say it is clear to me how things sent to the journal would make it 
into ITK in a predictable way. From what I recall, there seemed to be a 
suggestion of an automated system to incorporate code submissions to the 
journal into the ITK code base, but I can't seem to find any mention of 
such a system on the journal web site. The longer I think about it, the 
more I doubt such a system would work robustly in the first place, so 
maybe I got something wrong there?

Thanks for any clarification anyone could provide.

Best,
  Torsten

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