EngineeringRetreat2010/Kitware

Near-term schedule (Dec 10th-ish)

Factory Machine

• Setup factory machine
  • Being delivered by Jim on Friday
• Install virtual machines
• Backup
• SSH access for Steve
• CDash@Home Clients

Dashboard Update

• Goal: Provide module-specific feedback
  • Per Module build, test, coverage, memory, style reports
  • See http://my.cdash.org/index.php?project=CTK
  • High-risk for Dec 10th

Testing

• Single webpage for MIDAS data upload
• MIDAS hosts testing data
  • Demo on BrainsFIT data

Documentation

• Update wikis

Future

Workflows and Widgets

• External modules in workflows and widgets
  • Interactive segmentation algorithms are key

Documentation

• Searchable index for external modules and their documentation from within Slicer
• Documentation generated per module

Packaging

• Mac build as a real Mac application instead of as a Linux style bin/lib pair of directories thrown into a tarball.
  • Follow ParaView example
• Windows dlls into one dir
• User and developer packages

Promote external module development

Simplify testing

• GUI Testing
• Establish system (with man-in-the-middle) for developers to send modules to factory machines
  • Use my.cdash.org for projects to be grouped with Slicer
  • Developer initiates continuous builds of git branches and gets branch-specific dashboards

Verify modules prior to moving into Slicer

• Fetch modules from NITRC for nightly building
• Round-robin or build-when-changes schemes for CDash

Support distribution of modules

• Fetch build results (execs and dlls) from blessed dashboard machines
  • Package for Linux?

Batch Processing (optional)

• BatchMake with Slicer via WebKit
• Simplify Condor installation
• MIDAS hosts testing results (covalic)
• Scripting Slicer GUI (record and playback -> Batch processing)
• Kill/monitor threads spawned by processes / CLI

GPU

• Volume rendering
• GPU Algorithms
• Simultaneous GPU algorithms and volume rendering

IO

• MIDAScpp as an ITK IO Method