View source for Summit Dec 2013

'''Location:''' Kitware Inc., Santa Fe, NM

==Agenda==
{| cellpadding="2" cellspacing="4" style="backround:#efefef"
! align="center" colspan="2"|Thursday, Dec 5, 2013
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! style="background:#abcdef" width="150" | Time
! style="background:#abcdef" | Item
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! 8:00-10:00
| VTK-m Planning (Ken, Berk, Chris)
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! 10:00-11:00
| VTK-m Changes to ParaView (Berk, Ken, Jim or Chris)
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! 11:00-12:00
| NIH VTK Changes (Berk)
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! 12:00-1:00
| Lunch
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! 1:00-3:00
| Software Engineering Issues (Utkarsh, Alan)
* What is/isn't working
* What's falling of todo?
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! 3:00-4:00
| ParaWeb (Sebastian)
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! 4:00-5:00
| Python scripting simplification
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|}

==Topic Suggestions==

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===Deprecating Components===

* Policy for deprecating code: with changes to Panels and others, we have lot of dead/uncovered/sparing used code. How to deal with it?
* What happens to components like Prism which are not being actively ported to new style?
* How about discarding old panels that don't seem to be used as much e.g. Statistics Inspector

===Simplifying Plots===

* Making Plots "editable" by interacting in the View rather than having to go to the "View Settings" page.

===Parallel STL/CSV Writers===

* Improve parallel STL CSV writing so that you don't need to collect everything on process 0 (all at once).
** Sounds crazy, but we have a use case to get data in professional graphics tools.

===Alan's Talking Points===

* ParaView documentation, especially compared to EnSight and VisIt
* Python documentation, especially compared to VisIt.
* ParaView python and scripting.  (I will get an e-mail off before then with feedback i heard at SC).
* Statistics.  Statistics in parallel.  Clearly mark statistics filters that give wrong results in parallel.
* Updating VisIt reader
* 3d view menus.  2d view menus.  Toolbars (do we default them off, or on?)
* Efficiently parallelizing CAM reader - and priority.
* Future of Prism
* Do we need another "cleanup release"?
* Probe - interactive.  Display X,Y,Z on the 3d view.  Display any variable.  
* Needed miscellaneous functionality - volume, min, max, average, calculator accessing global data.
* Material interface filter and non AMR data.
* Document how the trace recorder works.
* Create precanned Macros that ship with ParaView?
* Possibly changing the layout of the settings panel to more of a Chrome layout.  (This was Utkarsh's idea, I am still on the fence.)

==Meeting Notes==