[Insight-developers] [ITK Community] Is dashboard hackathon still needed?

[Bill Lorensen]

A few years back at a NA_MIC project Week in SLC, I suggested that
warnings are the graffiti of software quality. Here is a summary:

The book, The Tipping Point, analyses trends and how they take hold.
As (NAME YOUR SOFTWARE) grows and the number of contributors
increases, there needs to be tighter controls on the quality of the
system. The larger the code base, number of platforms and developers,
the more need there is for attention to quality.

In the Tipping Point, a chapter on increasing crime in New York City
in the 1990's describes how the trend was reversed. The city
concentrated areas like cleaning graffiti from subway cars. The author
claims that this and other seemingly trivial goals may have led to a
reversal of the crime trend.

This project hypothesizes that compilation warnings are the graffiti
of software quality. A lack of attention to this seemingly trivial
goal shows a lack of attention to the overall quality of software.
This project will reduce warnings to zero for a popular c++
compiler,(NAME YOUR COMPILER).


On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 3:36 PM, Johnson, Hans J <hans-johnson at uiowa.edu> wrote:
> ABSOLUTELY THEY MUST BE FIXED!
>
> A tremendous amount of developer energy used in maintaining code that has
> warnings.  The cost of software maintenance is substantially reduce when
> warnings are removed.
>
> It is my experience that warnings VERY highly correlated with real bugs.
>
> Hans
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Vladimir S. FONOV" <vladimir.fonov at gmail.com>
> Date: Tuesday, December 17, 2013 2:28 PM
> To: Sean McBride <sean at rogue-research.com>
> Cc: ITK <insight-developers at itk.org>
> Subject: Re: [Insight-developers] [ITK Community] Is dashboard hackathon
> still needed?
>
> Hello,
>
>
> do we really have to fix warnings at this stage? I.e everything else
> actually compiles?
>
> On 13-12-17 03:05 PM, Sean McBride wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> As for the MINC compiler warnings... I've fixed a bunch in my github
>>fork, Vlad can you review and merge?
>>
>> <https://github.com/seanm/libminc/tree/develop>
>>
>> I've also disabled a bunch of others, because they are a long term
>>project...
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
>
>   Vladimir S. FONOV ~ vladimir.fonov <at> gmail.com
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