ITK/Policies and Procedures

ITK policies describe the rules or guidelines for elements of the ITK software engineering process. Procedures describe how to implement these rules or guideline. Each policy includes either a procedure or has a corresponding page describing the procedure. This document organizes the policies and procedures in a single location.

A study of the Debian open source governance is described here.

Backward Compatibility

• Backward Compatibility Policy

• Backward Compatibility White Paper

• Backward Compatibility Open Discussion

• Deprecation Procedure

Design Principles

• Design Principles

Coding Style

• Coding Style Guidelines

• Procedure for Checking Style

Code Coverage

• Code Coverage Practices

Dynamic Analysis

• Dynamic Analysis Practices

Reporting and Fixing Bugs

• Policy and Procedures for Reporting and Fixing Bugs

• Updated procedure for contributing through git

Contributing

• Policy and Procedures for Adding Developers

• Policy and Procedures for Adding Dashboards

• Policy and Procedures for Adding New Code

• Policy and Procedures for Adding Tests

• Policy and Procedures for Adding Test Data

• Policy and Procedures for Adding Remote Modules

Generating a Release

• Release Schedule
• Procedure for Generating a Release

Internationalization

Policy and Procedures for Internationalization

Other Policies (Probably should be moved)

• Build Instructions for Developers
• Procedure for Contributing New Classes and Algorithms
• Procedure for Contributing Bug Fixes
• Procedure for Adding a Test
• ITK Git Instructions