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

Wed May 8 11:31:43 EDT 2013

I still think we can green up the dashboard. We went through this with VTK.
They was a lot of griping in the beginning and a lot of excuses, but the
community pulled together and did it. That took months, but VTK was in much
worse shape. I would hole that of we tag an RC, that we make greening a
priority before the final release.

Bill

On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Matt McCormick
<matt.mccormick at kitware.com>wrote:

> I agree with Hans.  There are bugs, but there are *always* bugs, at
> least in corner cases for reasonably complex software.  And, ITK is
> more than reasonably complex.  A completely green dashboard does not
> mean there are not bugs, either -- it just means the bugs are not
> showing up on the dashboard.
>
> I started a new section of the dashboard called "Expected Nightly
> Exotic", and I have moved Nightly builds there for configurations that
> are a work in progress in terms of build errors, warnings, and test
> failures.  The "Expected Nightly" contains the most used
> configurations.  Builds can be moved from "Expected Nightly Exotic" to
> "Expected Nightly" after they become green.
>
> Thanks,
> Matt
>
>
> On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 1:48 PM, Johnson, Hans J <hans-johnson at uiowa.edu>
> wrote:
> > 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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> >
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> > From: Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com>
> > Date: Wednesday, May 8, 2013 8:33 AM
> > To: David Cole <dlrdave at aol.com>
> > Cc: ITK <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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