[vtkusers] Re: [vtk-developers] VTK 5.2 Release Planning

[Francois Bertel]

The release planning page http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK_5.2_Release_Planning has now a reference to a new section about API Changes in VTK 5.2:

http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK_FAQ#API_Changes_in_VTK_5.2


Berk Geveci wrote:
> The composite dataset API will change quite  a bit.
> 
> -berk
> 
> On 1/28/08, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> David,
>>
>> Are there any changes that affect the backward compatibility of the
>> API(either public or protected) since 5.0?
>>
>> Bill
>>
>> 2008/1/28 David Cole <david.cole at kitware.com>:
>>
>>> Dear VTK users and developers,
>>>
>>> We are planning to create the VTK-5-2 branch in about a month (around the
>> end of February), followed by a month or so of bug fixing activity, followed
>> by the first release candidate for the VTK 5.2 release in early April, 2008.
>>> As part of that plan, we would like to ask you, the VTK community, to
>> contribute to a successful release by doing the following:
>>> - Review the non-resolved bugs in the bug database and make notes on those
>> you really want to see fixed.
>>> - Help us make the "What's New in VTK 5.2" section of the Wiki page
>> complete (did we forget something that you know is new in 5.2?) --
>> contribute to the Wiki at
>> http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK_5.2_Release_Planning
>>> - Help us get (and keep!) the dashboards to a state of blissful green.
>>> - Promptly add any newly found bugs or last-minute feature requests to the
>> bug database.
>>> - Keep reading and responding to the mailing lists.
>>>
>>> We will be triaging the bug database to prioritize which bugs we will fix.
>> If you would like to see a particular bug addressed before we release 5.2,
>> please visit the bug database and "vote" for that bug sometime in the next
>> week or two. To "vote", visit http://public.kitware.com/Bug, sign in (or
>> sign up for an account and then sign in), and add a note to any bug that you
>> would like to see fixed. That will show us what the interest level is in
>> fixing that particular bug. Obviously, bugs with little or no interest
>> expressed are less likely to be addressed than bugs with much interest
>> expressed.
>>> New features in VTK since the 5.0 release include:
>>> - Infovis kit
>>> - Views kit
>>> - New Widgets architecture and more than a dozen new widgets
>>> - New Utilities: freerange, verdict, libxml2, metaio, sqlite
>>> - Updated Utilities: freetype, zlib
>>> - More than 300 new C++ classes.
>>> - More than 100 new C++ tests running on most dashboards
>>> - Many bug fixes, including much improved Java wrapping support and Mac
>> OSX support
>>> For all of us VTK-ers at Kitware and around the world, thanks for your
>> continued contributions,
>>> David Cole
>>> Kitware, Inc.
>>>
>>>
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