Good counter argument.

Still, the dashboard should have a section that is expected to be fully green 
as a prerequisite for cutting a release.

If it doesn't presently have such a section, then we should make it so.

If not for the immediate 4.4 release, then perhaps the next one.


On May 8, 2013, at 9:48 AM, "Johnson, Hans J" <[email protected]> wrote:

> As a counter argument:
> 
> The bug tracker has over 400 issues of *known* problems, some of which have 
> been there for many years.  In my opinion, we need a release that provides 
> ABSOLUTELY NO problems in the core, and explicit acknowledgment that corner 
> case issues are EXPLICITLY going to be addressed in the next release.
> 
> There are certainly some red items that need to be addressed, but much of the 
> red on the dashboard are compilers and computer environments that we can not 
> replicate.  Many of the failures are test timeouts on machines that we do not 
> have control of making faster.  Some of the most troublesome dashboards are 
> ones that build with Wrapping.  In my opinion, wrapping does not have a 
> sufficient user/developer community to justify holding up a release.
> 
> I would really like to see the dashboard have two nightly expected sections.  
> 1) A part that covers the CORE part of ITK that has development support and 
> covers the 10-15 environments that are "most" used, and 2) community 
> contributed parts that have more  advanced and specialized builds (i.e. 
> wrapping, fftw, GPU, VTK, OpenCV).
> 
> Hans
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> From: Bill Lorensen <[email protected]>
> Date: Wednesday, May 8, 2013 8:33 AM
> To: David Cole <[email protected]>
> Cc: ITK <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [Insight-developers] ITK 4.4 release candidate cycles about to 
> begin
> 
> +1
> 
> On Wednesday, May 8, 2013, David Cole wrote:
>> All of them...
>>  
>> Otherwise, you’re intentionally releasing software that has *known* problems 
>> in it.
>>  
>> Quality is more important than an exactly on-time schedule.
>>  
>>  
>> Just one opinion, I’m sure...
>> D
>>  
>>  
>> From: Matt McCormick
>> Sent: Tuesday, May 7, 2013 11:08 PM
>> To: Bill Lorensen
>> Cc: ITK
>>  
>> Hi Bill,
>> 
>> What are the red issues that need to be resolved?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Matt
>> 
>> On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 11:00 PM, Bill Lorensen <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>> > I think the dashboard is too red to tag a release candidate.
>> >
>> >
>> > On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 10:52 PM, Matt McCormick 
>> > <[email protected]>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> As a reminder, the ITK 4.4 release candidate cycle is about to begin.
>> >> Please have any remaining ENH: patches that have code reviews and
>> >> clean CDash@Home builds merged by the end of the day, Friday.  The
>> >> first RC will be tagged on Monday.
>> >>
>> >> Thanks,
>> >> Matt
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