VTK/ARB/Meetings/April 2010

Agenda

Jeff: Review action items from last meeting.
- Kitware will continue work on move to git.
- Bill will investigate the organization of examples/tutorials into VTK or other repositories.
- Brad King will remove the commit check of std, and Bill will test out what happens if you use it in examples.
Berk: Move to git and new workflow.
Berk/Jeff: Wrapping discussion. What exactly needs to be wrapped? Should there be well-defined properties?
All: Discussion on the scope of VTK
- Should we work on modularization, glue code to other toolkits?
- Titan (VTK + informatics) and it's new repository could test out some ideas.

std:: works with no issues on supported platforms.
VTK 6? Next version. vtkNew, everything changed to std::, polyhedral support.
Git
- We now have a clean git repository.
- Set up a prototype repo for people to play around with.
- Workflow idea: multiple published branches that represent different things
  - Latest maintained release
  - Master - Stable at all times
  - Development - Expose things that you are working on to the world. Tested rigorously by dashboard
- Brad will write workflow document.
- Don't put too many restrictions in place or features will not get into the repository.
- Gitorious will allow users to create repositories, will allow people to have VTK as a submodule.
Wrapping
- Make clearer distinction between what is wrapped and not wrapped.
- ITK v4 may have funds for wrapping; can we modernize and unify ITK and VTK wrapping?
- Get rid of //BTX, //ETX and just silently ignore unrecognized types?
Scope of VTK

Kitware will keep working on git repository, Brad will communicate to VTK community.
Berk/Jeff will be involved in ITK wrapping discussions.

Iterators?
All: Discussion on the scope of VTK
- Should we work on modularization, glue code to other toolkits?
- Titan (VTK + informatics) and it's new repository could test out some ideas.
Cleaning up dependencies between libraries.