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Getting involved Start here New community member checklist Developer meetings It is open to everyone, feel free to join. Developers mailing list / Sign-up / Browse archives Intended for discussion of programming related questions Resources Roadmap  NEW What's next ? What's the plan ? Source code repository   NEW Github or SVN CDash Quality Dashboard / Setup a dashboard Nightly, continuous and experimental dashboards. Bug tracker / Register / Report a problem / Contribute a patch Web-based bug tracking system Doxygen Source code API documentation. Slicer Style Guidelines  NEW Consistency and Readability for a manageable code base Developer Projects Pages for the developer projects. Labs Keep track of on-going experiments. Change logs and release details Informations about Slicer releases		Build instructions Build Slicer application   UPDATED Compiling and installing Slicer from source. Build Module  NEW Compiling slicer modules outside of the slicer source tree. Create Slicer extensions   NEW Build, test, package and distribute extensions Design & Implementation Modules  UPDATED Comparison between the different supported module types Internals Data Model / MRML - Objects and their organization. MRML Library provides API for managing medical image data type Logics - Details the role of MRML/Slicer/Application/Modules logics and Displayable managers IO Mechanism - How to read or write nodes from file Python scripting Presents the underlying infrastructure. Charts Description of the Charting architecture. Build system   UPDATED Details how Slicer is built and packaged. QtTesting Testing framework to test Slicer application. It complements unit tests.		Migration Guide How to update Slicer extension code following breaking changes in Slicer or dependent toolkits (VTK, ITK, Qt, ...) Source code How-tos How to checkout the source and contribute patches Module How-tos How to create or build modules, how to add or update remote modules Testing How-tos How to write tests and manage testing data Documentation How-tos How to document module or extension Extension How-tos How to contribute, build or package extensions Misc How-tos How to setup QtCreator, setup dashboard, work with QtDesigner, port modules Debugging instructions: https://slicer.readthedocs.io/en/latest/developer_guide/debugging/index.html

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