[Insight-developers] ITK 2.8 Repository Tagged & Branched

[Gaetan Lehmann]

Hi Julien,

To be clear, I thought IJ was a great idea, to improve contribution  
quality, and to valorize (I'm not sure that the right word) my work - show  
to everybody the work done, and have something about ITK to put in my  
evaluation form.
That's why I contributed articles and reviews.

That's right that there is some things to change in the interface to make  
IJ much better, but I don't think it will significantly change the numbers  
of reviews. Reviewing a contribution take some time, and it seems that the  
number of people ready to do that is quite small. Even official ITK  
developers are rarely taking the time to review the articles. How do you  
think to convince the normal user to do that ?
With the results of the first months of the IJ, are you sure that working  
more on it is a good use of your time ?

Gaetan


On Tue, 06 Jun 2006 16:29:57 +0200, Julien Jomier  
<julien.jomier at kitware.com> wrote:

> Gaetan,
>
> I agree with you the IJ is not reaching is full potential.
> However, the main issue at this point is not the number of publications  
> but the amount of reviews for new code and this is slowing down the  
> process. Moreover, the submission of new revisions is somehow painful.
>
> Here are some features that we want to implement (hopefully soon) for  
> the Insight Journal.
>
> 1) Separate CVS access for submission into the IJ so bug fixes can be  
> quickly fixed without a need for a resubmission.
>
> 2) Improved review design for submission to ITK (and other toolkits).  
> The idea is to assign two/three main reviewers and set a deadline for  
> the reviews (with email reminders). This should speedup the integration  
> into the toolkit. Also, at submission time, you will be able to specify  
> if this is a new feature or bug fix, etc...
>
> I'm also collecting ideas/features on how to improve the IJ. Feel free  
> to send me an email or log a feature request at www.itk.org/Bug (there  
> is a project for Insight Journal).
>
> Thanks,
>
> Julien
>
> Gaetan Lehmann wrote:
>>  Luis,
>>  Do you still think the Insight Journal is the proper way to get new  
>> code ?
>> While some interesting contributions have been published to the  
>> journal, the abscence of discussion about those contributions  
>> completely kills the contribution process. The new code seems to not be  
>> much integrated than before to the toolkit - even bug fixes and  
>> feature/performance improvement are not. After several months of  
>> existance, it seems that the journal is not able to reach the minimum  
>> amount of publishers and reviewers to work smoothly.
>> Perhaps the ITK community is too small for this kind of process ?
>> Don't you think that going back to committing directly new classes in  
>> the repository should increase the development dynamic of the toolkit ?
>>  Regards,
>>  Gaetan
>>   On Tue, 06 Jun 2006 14:21:03 +0200, Luis Ibanez  
>> <luis.ibanez at kitware.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> The CVS repository has been tagged and branched for ITK 2.8.
>>>
>>> The repository is open for commits again.
>>>
>>> Please keep in mind that only bug fixes, new tests, and
>>> performance improvements should be committed directly.
>>>
>>> Any new classes, or API changes should be posted first as
>>> technical reports to the Insight Journal.
>>>
>>>
>>> Please let us know if you find any problems,
>>>
>>>
>>>      Thanks
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>         Luis
>>>
>>>
>>>
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Gaëtan Lehmann
Biologie du Développement et de la Reproduction
INRA de Jouy-en-Josas (France)
tel: +33 1 34 65 29 66    fax: 01 34 65 29 09
http://voxel.jouy.inra.fr