[vtk-developers] Best way to contribute to VTK ? - Fwd: [GitHub] nolden sent you a pull request from nolden/VTK

Marcus D. Hanwell marcus.hanwell at kitware.com
Tue Jul 6 13:51:19 EDT 2010


Possibly not, but that prototype already has freetype definitions in its
public methods. I think as a bug fix this is reasonable, but perhaps this
class should be overhauled. This is another area where code review really
helps as a part of the process. In the short term I would rather improve the
unicode support, unless you strongly object to the patch.

Marcus

On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 1:43 PM, David Cole <david.cole at kitware.com> wrote:

> Maybe it's just me.... but I don't think we should be using freetype type
> definitions as argument types in public VTK methods.
>
> Does that concern anyone else that we let implementation details bleed into
> the API? Or is it just me?
>
>
> Thx,
> David C.
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Marcus D. Hanwell <
> marcus.hanwell at kitware.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Marco Nolden <m.nolden at dkfz-heidelberg.de
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> On 07/06/2010 06:11 PM, Marcus D. Hanwell wrote:
>>>
>>>> I would prefer publishing on a public repository, but am not informed
>>>> about pull requests on Github/Gitorious. I would certainly preserve
>>>> authorship information, and recently integrated a patch from David Feng
>>>> with preserved authorship. We also worked with David Gobbi on the
>>>> wrapping branch.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I think pull requests in GitHub are just an easy way to send a link to
>>> people with write access, without much functionality. Gitorious' merge
>>> requests are public, they have a status and the possibility to comment, e.g.
>>> http://qt.gitorious.org/qt/qt/merge_requests
>>
>>
>> Yes - I have been using merge request on gitorious, and would favor this
>> as a public list we could view, and comment on.
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Sorry if I missed this one, the change looks reasonable and I can take a
>>>> look at it. It would be good to see improved unicode support too. It is
>>>> something that the ARB should probably be discussing, but it would be
>>>> great to involve the community as far as is possible.
>>>>
>>>> Marcus
>>>>
>>>>  Actually I revised it a bit, so the link is here:
>>>
>>>
>>> http://github.com/nolden/VTK/commit/9b76af72e6016fcd4a7b2e1a58edb77eb5549eef
>>>
>>> and the patch is attached.
>>>
>>
>> There were some trailing whitespaces added, I have removed those and
>> rebased the commit on master HEAD. I will rebuild and test this out, but at
>> first glance it looks good. I just added your remote in the end, and fetched
>> from that. I will see about adding some regression tests for unicode text
>> rendering.
>>
>> One of the benefits of Git is the ease with which patches can flow, I
>> definitely want us to take maximum advantage of that. We are still looking
>> at what the best ways to achieve this are.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Marcus
>>
>>>
>>>  On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Moreland, Kenneth <kmorel at sandia.gov
>>>> <mailto:kmorel at sandia.gov>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>    Is submitting patches to the mailing list now the officially
>>>>    sanctioned method of providing contributions (as opposed to
>>>>    publishing on a public repository such as Marco has done)?  Will
>>>>    this change in the near future when we plan to move to a branchy
>>>>    workflow (which as I understand it now has plans for a more open
>>>>    “staging” repository)?
>>>>
>>>>    Perhaps this would be a good topic for the next ARB.
>>>>
>>>>    -Ken
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>    On 7/6/10 7:38 AM, "Dave Partyka" <dave.partyka at kitware.com
>>>>    <http://dave.partyka@kitware.com>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>        The most visible way is to send a patch to the vtk list. If you
>>>>        use the git patch commands you can create patches that will
>>>>        preserve the author (Marco in this case) as git has separate
>>>>        Author and Committer fields. See this wiki at the bottom on how
>>>>        to create a patch.
>>>>
>>>>        http://vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Git#Submitting_a_patch
>>>>
>>>>        On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 9:24 AM, Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin
>>>>        <jchris.fillionr at kitware.com
>>>>        <http://jchris.fillionr@kitware.com>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>            Hi Folks,
>>>>
>>>>            Since VTK souce code is available using Git, the repository
>>>>            can be forked very easily and people can contribute quite
>>>>            easily.
>>>>
>>>>            Being also available on github, Marco from DKFZ (German
>>>>            research cancer institute) forked it and added a patch. As
>>>>            he mentioned, "Pull request" doesn't seem to "work". What
>>>>            could be the best way for him to share his patch.
>>>>
>>>>            Beside of the following page
>>>>            http://www.vtk.org/VTK/project/getinvolved.html ,
>>>>            Is there any documentation available regarding the
>>>>            "contribution" workflow ?
>>>>            Is the mailing list the preferred way to share contribution ?
>>>>            Will the ownership of the original "patcher" be maintained ?
>>>>
>>>>            I added Marco in CC, feel free to answer that email and let
>>>>            him know the best way to share his work.
>>>>
>>>>            Thks
>>>>            Jc
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>            ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>>>            From: *GitHub* <noreply at github.com <http://noreply@
>>>> github.com>>
>>>>            Date: Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 9:17 AM
>>>>            Subject: [GitHub] nolden sent you a pull request from
>>>> nolden/VTK
>>>>            To: jchris.fillionr at kitware.com
>>>>            <http://jchris.fillionr@kitware.com>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>            nolden wants you to pull from nolden/VTK at 9ba9588
>>>>
>>>>            Body: Hi,
>>>>
>>>>            this is a bugfix for the rendering of utf8 characters. The
>>>>            handling of signed / unsigned was incorrect. As a result
>>>>            only 7bit characters were rendered, though in general the
>>>>            code was ok for 8bit characters.
>>>>
>>>>            cc Steven and JC, since I don't know if the "KItware" user
>>>>            reads pull requests.
>>>>
>>>>            View repository:
>>>>
>>>> http://github.com/nolden/VTK/tree/9ba958806256e38ae4ae4fc424c37f8a7eea2ae9
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>        ****      Kenneth Moreland
>>>>         ***      Sandia National Laboratories
>>>>    ***********
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>>>>
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>>>>
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