Developer Meetings/20170915

Updates

• Slicer can now be built with Qt5 and VTK8. More details here: https://www.slicer.org/wiki/Documentation/Labs/Qt5-and-VTK8

To discuss

• Schedule for the next release

From Andras:

The main question is when to release the next stable version. RSNA seems to be a bit late:

1. We would need a solid version for MICCAI (Sep 9), it would be nice to do it with a “stable” 
version than a hand-picked nightly,

2. We may not want to delay Qt5/VTK8 migration until November.
 
Starting to stabilize the nightly now (fix important errors, refrain from integrating risky changes), 
releasing a stable version by the end of August (before MICCAI), and create releases as needed (before RSNA) would make sense.
 

Conclusion

• 4.7 release: After addressing
  • extension packaging
  • and numpy issues,
  • update of DCMTK
• we will create the release. In the next 2 weeks

• Update versioning scheme:
  • 4.7 -> current dev
  • 4.8 -> release
    • slicer-4.8 -> maintenance branch for 4.8 release
  • 4.9 -> +1 dev
  • 5.0 -> +1 release
    • slicer-5.0 -> maintenance branch for 5.0 release
  • 5.1 -> +2 dev

• Use of backlog target release in mantis: We associate it with non critical issues

• Transitioning issues to GitHub:
  • We wouldn't need to migrate the issues
  • Issue would be migrated as needed

Action items:

• announce release on discourse: will be in "release" mode. Avoid major "breaking" changes