[Insight-developers] Re: ITK Dashboard cleanup

[Lorensen, William E (GE, Research)]

David,
 
For some reason the continuous e-mail's on errors have stopped working.
Can you check into this?
Also, it would be good for you to call into our weekly developer t-con
at 1:00PM on Fridays. This is a good time to remind people of how they
should be dealing with dashboard problems.
 
Thanks,
 
Bill

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From: insight-developers-bounces+lorensen=crd.ge.com at itk.org
[mailto:insight-developers-bounces+lorensen=crd.ge.com at itk.org] On
Behalf Of David Cole
Sent: Friday, January 26, 2007 11:54 AM
To: Will Schroeder
Cc: insight-users at itk.org; insight-developers at itk.org
Subject: [Insight-developers] Re: ITK Dashboard cleanup


Thanks for the intro, Will. Many of you will know me from my postings on
the VTK mailing lists. For those of you that don't, looks like you'll
get to know me here over the coming weeks...

I'll try not to be too harsh even though I've been directed to be
ruthless. If I seem harsh, hopefully it's just because email's a medium
that makes it difficult to communicate emotion. 

Looking back at the dashboard over the last month or so shows the
average number of daily changes to ITK is somewhere in the 40-50 range.
I'm going to start by trying to encourage all of you to eliminate build
errors and warnings. Then we'll move on to test failures. I will be
making some changes myself to eliminate some problems. 

If I notice that a warning or error or test failure is directly related
to a particular commit, I will contact the author directly by email or
phone to rectify the issue in a timely manner.

Then, once it's in that blissful state of dashboard green-ness, it will
be easier to discern what new commits are related to what new failures. 


Looking forward to getting to know more of you,
David Cole
Kitware, Inc.



On 1/24/07, Will Schroeder < will.schroeder at kitware.com
<mailto:will.schroeder at kitware.com> > wrote: 

	Folks-
	
	The ITK dashboard has been less than green for too long now. As
I 
	result, I have tasked Dave Cole to clean up the dashboard. (Dave
	recently did a fine job cleaning the VTK dashboard.) I have
directed
	Dave to be ruthless with his efforts; many lingering problems
need
	cleaning even if it means removing code or touching sacred cows.

	
	The motivation for doing this, besides the fact that we care
about the
	quality of the system, is that the ITK program manager Dr. Terry
Yoo at
	the National Library of Medicine, supports Kitware to maintain
and 
	extend the software, and rightfully expects the quality to
remain high.
	Also, other efforts such as NIH's US National Centers of
Biomedical
	Computation, in particular NAMIC (the National Alliance of
Medical Image 
	Computing na-mic.org, which is now developing the next
generation
	Slicer3 application http://www.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/Slicer3
),
	depend on stable, quality software. And I'm sure many of you in
the ITK
	community have your own research and/or applications that will
benefit
	from these efforts.
	
	So please bear with us as we clean house. If you wish to help
that's 
	great, we welcome any contributions that aim to improve the
system's
	quality. Feel free to contact Dave if you'd like to coordinate
with him
	on assignments.
	
	Will
	


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