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

[Matt McCormick]

Hi Brad,

I think the performance issues and WrapITK issues are important enough
to justify a patch release.  However, why substitute a minor release
that has other feature improvements?  Keeping the minor release
schedule regular is important.

My 2 cents,
Matt

On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 1:55 PM, Bradley Lowekamp
<blowekamp at mail.nih.gov> wrote:
> 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
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> Office of High Performance Computing and Communications
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> National Library of Medicine
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> blowekamp at mail.nih.gov
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