[Insight-developers] [ITK Community] A Contrib group?

[Bradley Lowekamp]

Luis,

I agree that we should take a step back and look at things.

Particularly, look at the infrastructure that is needed to help support contributed code, and prioritize what needs to be done to effectively review, maintain and test contributed code.

Brad

On Jan 16, 2014, at 11:05 AM, Luis Ibanez <luis.ibanez at kitware.com> wrote:

> Perhaps one way to approach the discussion is to actually
> draw a map of the the paths that new code can take in the
> current ITK landscape. Different types of code would follow
> different paths.
> 
> Then we can better evaluate whether the workflows are
> appropriate, and whether we need to refine the tools that
> go with them.
> 
> I agree with Brad K, in that what we first need to address
> the governance of code flow, and then we will have a 
> better perspective for discussing the actual mechanisms.
> 
> Creating a Contrib group, doesn't quite address the more
> fundamental issue that we need to recruit more volunteers
> developers to actually review and improve code. 
> 
> We already have the backlog of the Review directory...
> 
> 
>       Luis
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 10:51 AM, Bradley Lowekamp <blowekamp at mail.nih.gov> wrote:
> Brad K, Bill,
> 
> It's not clear from your(s) comments if you are in favor of using remote modules for all new modules or not?
> 
> Or if small new contribution like a single class should be added as separate module or integrated into the appropriate existing module?
> 
> Thanks for the clarification,
> Brad
> 
> On Jan 16, 2014, at 10:38 AM, Brad King <brad.king at kitware.com> wrote:
> 
> > On 01/16/2014 10:18 AM, Bradley Lowekamp wrote:
> >> these contributed modules are not reviewable in gerrit, are no
> >> automatically tested in gerrit, and are not tested in the dashboard.
> >
> > That is a limitation of the review/testing infrastructure that should
> > be overcome by technical means rather than worked around with means
> > known to fail in the past.  Just look back at the Review directory
> > prior to modularization.  It was huge and barely maintained.
> >
> >> Additionally, the other other goal it to have users have sense of ownership
> >> and responsibility for the code contributed and reduce the limited
> >> maintenance resources.
> >
> > How does labeling something "contrib" (a second-class designation) give
> > a contributor a sense of acceptance into the community?  We should
> > encourage contributors to maintain their work as first-class
> > participants.
> >
> >> Also, everyone things there code is great and thinks it should get into ITK.
> >> With the current nebulous Community lead approach no direction or editorial
> >> leadership can occur.
> >
> > This is a problem best solved by refining the governance model.
> >
> > -Brad K
> >
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