[Insight-developers] ITK 4.4 release candidate cycles about to begin

[Johnson, Hans J]

As a counter argument:

The bug tracker has over 400 issues of *known* problems, some of which have been there for many years.  In my opinion, we need a release that provides ABSOLUTELY NO problems in the core, and explicit acknowledgment that corner case issues are EXPLICITLY going to be addressed in the next release.

There are certainly some red items that need to be addressed, but much of the red on the dashboard are compilers and computer environments that we can not replicate.  Many of the failures are test timeouts on machines that we do not have control of making faster.  Some of the most troublesome dashboards are ones that build with Wrapping.  In my opinion, wrapping does not have a sufficient user/developer community to justify holding up a release.

I would really like to see the dashboard have two nightly expected sections.  1) A part that covers the CORE part of ITK that has development support and covers the 10-15 environments that are "most" used, and 2) community contributed parts that have more advanced and specialized builds (i.e. wrapping, fftw, GPU, VTK, OpenCV).

Hans


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From: Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com<mailto:bill.lorensen at gmail.com>>
Date: Wednesday, May 8, 2013 8:33 AM
To: David Cole <dlrdave at aol.com<mailto:dlrdave at aol.com>>
Cc: ITK <insight-developers at itk.org<mailto:insight-developers at itk.org>>
Subject: Re: [Insight-developers] ITK 4.4 release candidate cycles about to begin

+1

On Wednesday, May 8, 2013, David Cole wrote:
All of them...

Otherwise, you’re intentionally releasing software that has *known* problems in it.

Quality is more important than an exactly on-time schedule.


Just one opinion, I’m sure...
D


From: Matt McCormick
Sent: Tuesday, May 7, 2013 11:08 PM
To: Bill Lorensen
Cc: ITK

Hi Bill,

What are the red issues that need to be resolved?

Thanks,
Matt

On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 11:00 PM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think the dashboard is too red to tag a release candidate.
>
>
> On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 10:52 PM, Matt McCormick <matt.mccormick at kitware.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> As a reminder, the ITK 4.4 release candidate cycle is about to begin.
>> Please have any remaining ENH: patches that have code reviews and
>> clean CDash at Home builds merged by the end of the day, Friday.  The
>> first RC will be tagged on Monday.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Matt
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