2021.09.14 Weekly Meeting

[Sam_Horvath (Sam Horvath (Kitware))]

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

Agenda:

• Extension manager status
• Slicer 5 status

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

Thanks
Sam and J-Christophe

[pieper (Steve Pieper (Isomics, Inc.))]

I’d like to pick people’s brains about some ultrasound topics.

[lassoan (Andras Lasso)]

I’ve reviewed all issues that are scheduled for 4.13. Here is the result:

To be discussed

Should we fix?

• ModelMaker crash involving vtkITKArchetypeImageSeriesScalarReader Disable shared memory transfer
• Remove LEGACY Remote Modules Moved to Backlog
• Update Python version from 3.6.7 to 3.7 (or 3.8) Confirmed Keep in current milestone
• ENH: Set default VTK version to 9 Merged
• Relocate community page @pieper to follow up
• Force libarchive to not use homebrew libraries during packaging on macOS Fix in progress by @jcfr
• Include a “maintainer guide” in readthedocs Moved to Backlog
• Improve “release process” progress tracking Moved to Backlog
• Crash when attempting to show slice of RGBA volume in 3D view @Sam_Horvath will assign someone to it

Should we close?

• Investigate improving visibility of 3D Slicer in google search results keep and brainstorm more
• Markups Display Size investigate more
• Slicer fails to start on default Ubuntu 20.04 configuration
• Crash on Fedora 33 due to OpenSSL/Kerberos incompatibility Fix in progress by @jcfr
• Create new Linux archive for stable release including unstripped python libraries
• MacOS extensions missing for SlicerPreview @Sam_Horvath will close
• Slicer build error with VTK9 in debug mode due to SimpleITK Python configuration problem

Probably no need for discussion, but a quick review would be useful

Propose to move to backlog

• Update qt-easy-build to support building Qt5
• Rename Slicer_MAIN_PROJECT_* variable to Slicer_MAIN_APP_ : Moved
• Allow customization of Slicer_MAIN_PROJECT_VERSION_FULL suffix : Moved
• Slicer_VERSION set in the top CMakeLists do not update version in Slicer-build at Superbuild
• Ensure remote project source download always complete before inner build starts
• vtkMRMLSubjectHierarchyNode: Use of StartModify / EndModify leads to warnings
• DICOMReaders test report missing fixedCorners attribute
• Module without category can not be selected programatically if developer mode is disabled
• restoring scene views leads to subject hierarchy crash
• Replace dynamic lightbox views with static image generation
• Show icon and associate slicer with .mrb and .mrml files
• git core.autocrlf=true option causes erroneously modified source files and test failures
• Advise users which extensions to install to load special file or DICOM formats
• Apply linear transform with shear as non-linear transform
• Move legacy Editor module to separate extension
• Add test for vtkMRMLNode::HasCopyContent
• Add migration guide related to update of MRML Node copy API
• Improve SceneView to use sequences as storage backend and re-enable tests
• Remove legacy modules
• Add “Export as…” entry to Data context menu
• Calling vtkMRMLSliceViewInteractorStyle::SetActionEnabled systematically disable SetCursorPosition
• SlicerVMTK modules are hard to find
• Interactive slice intersections
• Some widgets not updating appropriately on style change
• Add widget action for placing a markup control point

Propose to fix

Various

• Document all Slicer core modules on readthedocs
• Windows Taskbar grouping
• Selection in node selector is lost if importing a scene
• Settings save on application exit does not work on macOS
• New Slicer logo rollout
• Instantiating a slicer.qSlicerWebWidget() breaks extensions manager
• Fix py_nomainwindow_SegmentationsModuleTest2 on Linux
• Update extensions for Slicer-4.13
• Slicer application cannot be uninstalled on Windows
• Create markups ROI
• Make plane markups widget more similar to ROI markups widget

Build and packaging

• QT Designer does not start on MacOS
• Update extensions for Slicer-4.13
• VTK9: Fix macOs packaging rules for extension with VTK remote dependency
• Tests for TorchIO extension are failing on Slicer CDash

Extensions server

• Cleanup datastore
• build version listed on slicer download page differs from the downloaded folder
• Show new Slicer Preview Release on download page when extension builds are completed
• Slicer 5.0 Extension Manager: Manage Extensions Tab icons
• Slicer 5.0 Extension Manager: Install Extensions Tab Proposed change here Fixed
• Add “Update Extension” option under Manage Extensions
• Add last modified date for extensions
• Cleanup references to midas3 and/or slicer.kitware.com
• DataStore module shows “Not Found” Proposed change here Fixed
• Unable to manually install extension with ExtensionsManager Fixed
• Re-home data organized in NA-MIC/Public/SampleData

Web infrastructure

• Rename CDash project from Slicer4 to SlicerStable
• Add disclaimer on top of Slicer3 related pages
• Slicer API documentation is not up-to-date