Re: [Paraview] Comparison of Visit and ParaView development

2016-06-20 Thread Berk Geveci
Hi Paul, This is very valid criticism. As I read it, there are two parts to the issue. > How bugs are handled. You are absolutely right that we have done a poor job responding to community bug reports and fixes. Both on VTK & ParaView bug trackers but especially on the ParaView side. We have

Re: [Paraview] Comparison of Visit and ParaView development

2016-06-16 Thread Utkarsh Ayachit
> but I always wondered about the development process of VTK/ParaView with > respect to bug > reports. There seem to be a huge number of reported bugs for ParaView (and a > few for VTK), ranging from crashes to incorrect functionality to feature > requests. Bugs often get prioritized by several

Re: [Paraview] Comparison of Visit and ParaView development

2016-06-16 Thread Paul Melis
Hi, On 15-06-16 16:18, Berk Geveci wrote: I believe that the main differentiator between ParaView and other vis tools out there is the broad functionality _and_ the code quality. Having the two together is really tough but our community managed this with a heavy emphasis on code review and code

Re: [Paraview] Comparison of Visit and ParaView development

2016-06-15 Thread David E DeMarle
Dear ParaView programmers, > ... there seems to be no active developers community except for two or > three kitware employees. > git shortlog 39fb355b..37d222b6 | grep "):" | wc -l 32 granted, most of those who committed between v5.0.0 and v5.1.0.rc1 were from kitware, but 10x more than 3 active

Re: [Paraview] Comparison of Visit and ParaView development

2016-06-15 Thread Berk Geveci
I will leave it to the community to address some of these concerns since I am obviously biased. However, Sven made some misguided and unfair statements and I would like to address those. Books: Utkarsh & the ParaView community have put a lot of effort in developing a User's Guide for ParaView,

[Paraview] Comparison of Visit and ParaView development

2016-06-15 Thread Sven Kramer
Dear ParaView programmers, I would like to have some opinions on the suitability of either ParaView or Visit for large scalable visualization applications. When I had the first contact to visualization more than 5 years ago, Visit was not quite scalable and ParaView seemed the only open source