# 2021.08.10 Weekly Meeting

**URL:** <https://discourse.slicer.org/t/2021-08-10-weekly-meeting/19126>\
**Category:** Weekly meetings\
**Created:** [August 9, 2021, 6:15pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/2021-08-10-weekly-meeting/19126 "2021-08-09T18:15:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![jcfr](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/jcfr/32/17825_2.png) [@jcfr](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/jcfr)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2021, 6:15pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/2021-08-10-weekly-meeting/19126/1 "2021-08-09T18:15:25Z")

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

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

Agenda:

- Slicer 5 / Extension manager
  - Tentative is to have new extensions manager available for testing on Aug 10th EOB

- CMake/Packaging:
  - [VMTK gone missing recently in Slicer-4.11.20210226 · Issue #37 · vmtk/SlicerExtension-VMTK · GitHub](https://github.com/vmtk/SlicerExtension-VMTK/issues/37)
  - [QT Designer does not start on MacOS · Issue #4700 · Slicer/Slicer · GitHub](https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/issues/4700#issuecomment-832792142)

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

Thanks  
Sam and J-Christophe

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**Author:** ![Connor-Bowley](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/connor-bowley/32/12762_2.png) [@Connor-Bowley](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/Connor-Bowley)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2021, 9:03pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/2021-08-10-weekly-meeting/19126/2 "2021-08-09T21:03:26Z")

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I would like to discuss [Improve markups rendering performance · Issue #5752 · Slicer/Slicer · GitHub](https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/issues/5752) (Improve markups rendering performance).

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**Author:** ![jcfr](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/jcfr/32/17825_2.png) [@jcfr](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/jcfr)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2021, 3:08pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/2021-08-10-weekly-meeting/19126/3 "2021-08-10T15:08:34Z")

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Updates related to new extensions infrastructure:

- updated extensions frontend work to be integrated by tomorrow early morning.
- if there are major issues, changes could be reverted as the old server will be kept on until mid September
- plans are documented at [https://github.com/KitwareMedical/slicer-extensions-webapp/issues](https://github.com/KitwareMedical/slicer-extensions-webapp/issues)