[Insight-developers] ITK 3.20 --> ITK 4.0 Transition Plan : ITK : CVS --> Git

[Luis Ibanez]

As many of you may know, we are working on
a major new version of ITK:


                    This will be ITKv4.



The main goals for ITKv4 are:

        (1)  Revising,
        (2)  Accelerating,
        (3)  Simplifying and
        (4)  Improving DICOM support in ITK.


To that end we have drafted a Transition Plan to go
from ITK 3.20 to ITKv4.  The current form of this plan
is available in the Wiki page:

http://www.itk.org/Wiki/ITK_Release_4/Migration_Plan


A schematic representation of th plan is available at:

http://www.itk.org/Wiki/File:ITKv4-TransitionPlanProposal.png



The intermediate Phases of the Transition Plan
have been sketched out in

http://www.itk.org/Wiki/ITK_Release_4/Migration_Plan/Phases

an equivalent document is available at:
http://www.itk.org/Wiki/images/5/5c/ITKv4-TransitionPlan-Draft.pdf



Please share with us your impression on how
the current transition plan may impact your use
of ITK.


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At this point, we have executed:

* Release of ITK 3.20 : July 15th

We are now in the process of:

* Porting ITK from CVS to Git.

As we move to Git, a lot of effort is being invested
in preserving the CVS history.

We anticipate that ITK-Git will be settle by the end of July.


It is therefore a good moment for you to start learning Git.  :-)

Resources are available at:
http://git-scm.com/documentation

We recommend that you start by watching this talk
that Linus Torvals gave at Google:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8

Then follow up with the official Git tutorial

http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/gittutorial.html

( but, please note that there are many other
    resources available for learning Git )


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We will appreciate any suggestions on how to
improve the Transition Plan, and how to minimize
the effort that users will have to invest for migrating
to ITKv4.




     Thanks



           Luis
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