Engineering:TCON 06 02 2005

Agenda

• Administrivia ( Bill, et. al. )
• Updates to programming week projects (Tina, Jim, Xiaodong,...)
• Dartmouth Dissemination Event reportout (Tina)
• Early pipeline feedback (Bill, Jim)
• Dart 2/Ctest Update (Dan, Andy)
• Registration Example for Grid Testing (Steve)
• Open Line

Attendees

• Rick Avila
• Dan Blezek
• Andy Cedilnik
• Jason Gerk
• Tina Kapur
• Bill Lorensen
• Jim Miller
• Will Schroeder
• Xiaodong Tao
• Michael Pan
• Steve Pieper

Updates to programming week projects

• Some projects with no Core 2 members

Dartmouth Dissemination Event

• Becoming training events instead of dissemination event
• 40 first time users
• Windows and Mac users
• Live demo on the second screen
• NIfTI file format (extension to Analize)
• Slicer leader in Visualization and Registration for FMRI

Ideas

• Idea for the programmer's week: use projector with VNC to display user's screen
• Implement NIfTY reader for ITK and/or VTK
• Add suggestions to Slicer Bugtracker

Early pipeline feedback

• Problem with class path on Windows and issues with Java 1.5
• Will be packaged as an executable
• Will make GUI more intuitive
• There is updated JAR
• Learning terminology
• License questions about redestributing on Wiki
• Problem with J-Graph license
• Package everything into a single JAR file
• Solve absolute path problem by packaging software with modules
• Idea: Have CMake generate modules

Dart 2 / CTest Update

• New XML-RPC server (not GPL and more compliant)
• 2 dashboards on NA-MIC (Insight/CMake)
• Andy will setup Dart1 to Dart2 proxy
• Use dart for test performance of the systems
• Display more historical information

Registration Example for Grid Testing

Open Line

• Formaly organize scheduled times for working groups on Programmer's Week