On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 3:31 PM, Bill Lorensen <[email protected]> wrote: > I still think we can green up the dashboard. We went through this with VTK. > They was a lot of griping in the beginning and a lot of excuses, but the > community pulled together and did it. That took months, but VTK was in much > worse shape. I would hole that of we tag an RC, that we make greening a > priority before the final release.
Agreed. Thanks, Matt > > Bill > > > On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Matt McCormick <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> I agree with Hans. There are bugs, but there are *always* bugs, at >> least in corner cases for reasonably complex software. And, ITK is >> more than reasonably complex. A completely green dashboard does not >> mean there are not bugs, either -- it just means the bugs are not >> showing up on the dashboard. >> >> I started a new section of the dashboard called "Expected Nightly >> Exotic", and I have moved Nightly builds there for configurations that >> are a work in progress in terms of build errors, warnings, and test >> failures. The "Expected Nightly" contains the most used >> configurations. Builds can be moved from "Expected Nightly Exotic" to >> "Expected Nightly" after they become green. >> >> Thanks, >> Matt >> >> >> On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 1:48 PM, 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 >> > >> > >> > ================================================================= >> > Hans J. Johnson, Ph.D. >> > Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry >> > >> > Mailing Address: >> > W274 GH Email: [email protected] >> > 200 Hawkins Drive Phone: (319) 353 8587 >> > The University of Iowa >> > Iowa City, IA 52242 >> > >> > 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. 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