2020.04.21 Hangout

[Sam_Horvath (Sam Horvath (Kitware))]

Hi all!

Tomorrow, we will be having our weekly hangout at 10:00 AM EST until 11 AM EST.

Anyone is welcome to join to ask questions at https://bit.ly/slicer-googlemeet-hosted-by-kitware

Agenda:

*Slicer 5 progress

Feel free to post to this thread to request/suggest a topic!

Thanks
Sam

[muratmaga]

Sorry as usual I can’t make the meeting.

However, I do have one comment about the transition. Is the document here expected to serve a list of all major changes? If so I am seeing nothing about the recent coordinate system change for exported models and fiducials.

For me that’s a major change, already impacting our workflow. Perhaps a more comprehensive transition guide is necessary, one not just focused on the developer’s point-of-view, but for user functionality as well…

[lassoan (Andras Lasso)]

@muratmaga

Is the document here expected to serve a list of all major changes?

yes

@muratmaga

If so I am seeing nothing about the recent coordinate system change for exported models and fiducials

Good point. Probably we missed this from the migration guide because it should not be a backward incompatible change, only in very special cases (since coordinate system information has been recorded in files for several years now). But since there is a chance it may impact some people, I added a section now: https://www.slicer.org/wiki/Documentation/Nightly/Developers/Tutorials/MigrationGuide/Slicer#Models_are_saved_in_LPS_coordinate_system_by_default

[Sam_Horvath (Sam Horvath (Kitware))]

Meeting notes:

• Slicer 5 progress
  • main remaining items are: VTK update, MRML API changes
  • We are going to start collecting highlights for the Slicer 5 release
• reviewed possible bugs in ModelMaker
• discussed working on possible approaches for virtual Project week
  • Any thoughts / contributions are welcome!

[Sam_Horvath (Sam Horvath (Kitware))]

Community document for Slicer 5 release highlights

Hi all: During the most recent developer hangout, we discussed possible feature highlights for the Slicer 5 release notes. Usually, the release notes document is generated immediately before the release. This time, we would like to start the process a little earlier. A Google doc for collecting items that developers would like to have featured in the highlights section of the release notes is linked below: Feel free to add to this document, or suggest things to be added!