ITK/Release Schedule

Schedule of upcoming ITK releases

Release Number	Date
2.2	August 30 2005
2.4	November 30 2005
2.6	February 28 2006
2.8	May 30 2006

Release Life Cycle

Last period for adding classes and features

• New classes will be selected from good reviews from the Insight Journal
• New features and new methods can be added during this period.

Feature Freeze

• Increase code coverage
  • address any UNTESTED files
  • address files with code coverage lower than 80%
• Address Run-time memory issues
  • Purify reports
  • Valgrind reports

CVS Tagging

The repository is tagged by using two tags, one for the reference, and another for the branch.

Posting Tarballs

• Tarballs are posted to SourceForge
• Tarballs are linked from the ITK Download

Release 2.4 Schedule

Release Number	Start Date	End Date
Last period for adding classes	October 15 2005	November 11 2005
Feature freeze	November 12 2005	November 28 2005
CVS Tagging	November 29 2005	November 29 2005
Posting tarballs	November 30 2005	November 30 2005

Release 2.6 Schedule

Release Number	Start Date	End Date
Last period for adding classes	January 15 2006	February 11 2006
Feature freeze	February 12 2006	February 26 2006
CVS Tagging	February 26 2006	February 26 2006
Testing tarballs	February 26 2006	February 28 2006
Posting tarballs	February 28 2006	February 28 2006

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Contributions

Contributions from the Insight Journal being considered for inclusion in this Release. We will follow the procedures outlined here.

Deadline for having 3 reviews : January 31

Except for submission taken from MICCAI Workshop, for which only a code review is needed.

Paper	Reviewer 1	Done	Reviewer 2	Done	Reviewer 3	Done	Shepherd	Recommendation
Unsupervised Segmentation of Miofibers (from MICCAI Workshop)	Luis	X					Luis	Include AutomaticThresholdImageFilter (rename class and methods, fix coding style)
Tetrahedral Meshing (from MICCAI Workshop)	Vincent		Sylvain	X				Not include in 2.6, it has Licensing issues
Open Topology Toolkit (from MICCAI Workshop)	Bill							Do not include in itk 2.6
Local Maxima Image Filter	Karthik		Andinet		Dan
B-Spline Scattered Data Approximation	Luis		Lydia				Lydia	Defer for ITK 2.8
Binary Morphological opening and closing	Luis		Jim		Sylvain	X	Jim	Waiting for Author revisions. Defer for ITK 2.8
Invert Intensity Image Filter	Luis		Bill	X	Sylvain	X	Bill	Include with minor coding style changes
Morphological Gradient	Karthik	X	Jim	X	Bill	X	Bill	Include with minor coding changes
Modulus Image Filter	Luis	X	Jim	X	Bill	X	Bill	Include with minor coding changes
Minimal Imposition Image Filter	Luis						Luis	Include with minor coding changes
MINC 2.0 IO Support for ITK	Luis		Mathieu	X	Sylvain			Defer for ITK 2.8. Concerns about library dependencies.
Finding regional extrema	Luis				Jim			Include with minor coding changes (name)
Extending MATLAB with ITK	Karthik		Dan				Karthik	Include in Insight Applications (license concerns)
Image Calculator	Luis		Vincent		Bill			hold on for the reviews
Probability Distributions for the Insight Journal	Karthik		Luis		Stephen		Jim	Include (finish the reviews)
Updating GDCM + adding JPEG 2000							Mathieu	Mathieu to write a report for the IJ
ITK Filter for Bayesian Segmentation	Karthik		Andinet		Luis		Karthik	Include (still finish the reviews)