[Insight-developers] Need to add images for new tests to Data -- how to do that in a Gerrit topic?

[Bill Lorensen]

Since I won't be in Iowa, I hope we can have a discussion later on a
t-con. There may be other stake-holders that will not be in
attendance.


On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 7:00 PM, Stephen Aylward
<stephen.aylward at kitware.com> wrote:
> I suggest waiting until the presentation at the meeting and having
> everyone contribute to making an informed decision.
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> On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 6:50 PM, Matthew McCormick (thewtex)
> <matt at mmmccormick.com> wrote:
>>> I suggest we split the data into large, small and baselines. Keep the
>>> small and baselines with the repository (the way it used to be, no
>>> submodule). Use MIDAS for the large data.
>>>
>>
>> This seems like the best route.
>>
>> When I had my test data repository, at some point I added some large
>> images.  The problem is that once a large image has been committed at
>> any point in history, it must be downloaded forever.  The Sandlot
>> (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108037/) level of FOREVER.  But, as
>> Gaëtan points out, the Testing/Data repository size is only 74M with
>> the entire history.  Relative to the source tree and the size of a
>> build, this is reasonable.  Maybe Git has gotten much better at binary
>> diffs and compression since I last tried an image repository.  Gerrit
>> review could help keep the additions small.
>>
>> As Luis points out, support for features that address larger images
>> requires larger images to test the features.  A git repository will
>> never work for larger images.  The MIDAS system looks very nice.
>>
>> Either way it goes, they are both good solutions.  The important point
>> is that something should be done so that contributers can change the
>> test images in a reasonable fashion.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Matt
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