[vtkusers] heads up: changes to vtk web site and examples coming

[Richard Whitehead]

David,

I am very pleased to hear this.  Getting started with VTK has been a really
tough learning curve, often the simplest things are very difficult to get
to work (e.g. getting a picture to fill a window!).
The users forum is great but one doesn't always get an answer.
ITK was actually much easier to learn, maybe there are things we can learn
from them too.

Many thanks,

Richard



Date: Thu, 15 May 2014 17:29:19 -0400
From: David E DeMarle <dave.demarle at kitware.com>
To: "vtkusers at vtk.org" <vtkusers at vtk.org>, vtkdev
        <vtk-developers at vtk.org>,  Christopher Mullins
        <christopher.mullins at kitware.com>,  Will Schroeder
        <will.schroeder at kitware.com>
Subject: [vtkusers] heads up: changes to vtk web site and examples
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Hey gang,

We've started cleaning up the accumulated clutter that we call the VTK wiki
page. With a collection of maybe twenty years' information up there we are
suffering more from a proliferation than a scarcity of information. Our
goal then is to streamline and improve the content to make it easier to
find the important stuff and especially to get started using VTK.

As such we have or are about to:
* change the top level wiki page from:
  http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Deprecated_frontpage
to:
  http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/VTK

* remove or update old and often conflicting content (I'm looking at you
FAQ!).

* switch to a ParaView style download form on the webpage, where you pick
from drop down boxes what you want to download.

* Adhere to "one set of examples to rule them all" or "there can be only
one set of examples". The in source VTK examples:
  ${VTKSOURCE}/Examples
are being updated and will eventually move to the VTK Wiki examples
project:
  http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Examples
Regression test results for the wiki examples will move to the VTK
dashboard where more developers will see them.

* the VTK web site will receive its own facelift in the coming months, like
ParaView's recently did, for much the same reason.

If you have any concerns about any of this or have some spare time and
would like to help update the documentation and example, please let us
know.

David E DeMarle
Kitware, Inc.
R&D Engineer
21 Corporate Drive
Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
Phone: 518-881-4909
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