[Insight-developers] Proposal: Should the September release just but a 4.2.1 patch?

[Bradley Lowekamp]

Hello,

I have been considering what is being discussed to be done between now and September, when currently the 4.3 release is scheduled, along with the resources that I am aware that are available to contribute and add new features to ITK. I would like to propose that we change the scheduled release in september to only a patch release of 4.2.


The fix for the performance regression that Kent and myself have worked on in quite significant and there is still work to be done there to try to whittle the maximum number of GetInput calls down further. Additionally, there are some WrapITK issues I have encountered when I instantiate more pixel types. And there is the important patch that has been contributed by a use to get WrapITK working with VS10. So I think there is some significant fixes that would justify a 4.2.1 patch release.


This would not disrupt those working on the forward progress of the master branch either. Those patches intended to be merged into the release can through the normal gerrit process. The only difference would be that should be based on the release branch and not the master branch, and SHOULD NOT be rebased before they are merged into master.

Thanks for sharing you thoughts on this issue.

Brad


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Bradley Lowekamp  
Medical Science and Computing for
Office of High Performance Computing and Communications
National Library of Medicine 
blowekamp at mail.nih.gov



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