[Paraview] ANN: Upcoming changes to ParaView Server Manager

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

Pat,

A few things to note:

* Once the collaboration merge happens, we will change ParaView
version to be 3.11.1. That's uncommon since we never change the patch
version for developement branch, but we do this time so that
developers can write code that works in both cases.

* The merge will be tagged. That will be a good starting point for
topic branches until we switch to release/next/master approach. That
brings up a good question about when that's going to happen. I am
going to start getting the pinwheels rolling on this side to come up
with the plan for that migration.

Utkarsh


On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 3:54 PM, pat marion <pat.marion at kitware.com> wrote:
> Hi Seb,
>
> Could you give some advice as to how we start topic branches after the
> collaboration merge?  Paraview has branches "master" and "release", which in
> my mind map to "bleeding edge" and "stable, release ready" branches.  It
> seems the best practice is to start topics from release and merge them into
> master.  After the collaboration merge, it might not be a good idea to start
> topics from release anymore, is that correct?
>
> Any plans to move to a next, master, release branch scheme?
>
> Pat
>
> On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Sebastien Jourdain
> <sebastien.jourdain at kitware.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>> The time has gone and we plan to merge the Collaboration branch to
>> master this Friday (April 8th 2011).
>> So if anyone has something to say, please do it before Friday or it
>> will be too late. ;-)
>>
>> Seb
>>
>> PS: We will also update the Version number to be 3.11.1.
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 3:29 PM, Sebastien Jourdain
>> <sebastien.jourdain at kitware.com> wrote:
>> > Folks,
>> >
>> > For those of you who haven't follow the topic in the
>> > paraview-developers mailing list here is a quick summary on what's
>> > going on in the coming weeks.
>> > We've been working for a while now on restructuring the Server Manager
>> > of ParaView to make it more efficient as well as allowing it to
>> > support collaborative workflows.
>> > The API has undergone major changes and may cause some minor rewrite
>> > of your own code. Before we merge these changes to master, please try
>> > out the Collaboration branch with your code and let us know if you
>> > experience any issue.
>> > Please see below for the details on how to checkout the Collaboration
>> > branch.
>> >
>> > Thanks for your support,
>> >
>> > Seb
>> >
>> > ============= From the ParaView-developer list ===============
>> >
>> > Following up the mail from Utkarsh on the changes to ParaView Server
>> > Manager :
>> >
>> >
>> > http://public.kitware.com/pipermail/paraview-developers/2011-February/000951.html
>> >
>> > We finally push our branch to the stage. That branch will only be
>> > merged to master in the coming month.
>> > But if you have developed a plugin or any code based on ParaView and
>> > you want to test it against
>> > that major update, please follow the coming instructions and don't
>> > hesitate to send us your feed back.
>> >
>> > In order to fetch our ParaView branch from stage, you will need to
>> > execute the following command line:
>> >
>> > $ git clone --recursive git://paraview.org/stage/ParaView.git -b
>> > Collaboration
>> >
>> > Then, as any regular ParaView source directory, you should be able to
>> > configure and build it.
>> > As some directory and kit renaming occurred, you may need to update
>> > the name of the ParaView library that you are linking against. Now the
>> > ParaViewCore package which used to be called "Servers" contains the
>> > following kits:
>> > vtkPVCommon, vtkPVClientServerCore, vtkPVServerImplementation,
>> > vtkPVServerManager, vtkPVVTKExtensions.
>> >
>> > Please remember, these do not affect 3.10 or even 3.10.1. These will
>> > make into the
>> > official ParaView 4.0 release, nothing sooner.
>> >
>> > Seb
>> >
>> > PS: Additional informations on those changes are available here
>> >
>> > http://paraview.org/ParaView3/images/2/24/ParaViewCollaborationChanges.pdf
>> >
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