# 2021.09.14 Weekly Meeting
**URL:** https://discourse.slicer.org/t/2021-09-14-weekly-meeting/19651
**Category:** Weekly meetings
**Created:** [September 13, 2021, 7:55pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/2021-09-14-weekly-meeting/19651 "2021-09-13T19:55:45Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Sam\_Horvath](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/Sam_Horvath)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2021, 7:55pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/2021-09-14-weekly-meeting/19651/1 "2021-09-13T19:55:45Z")
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:
- Extension manager status
- Slicer 5 status
Feel free to post to this thread to request/suggest a topic!
Thanks
Sam and J-Christophe
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### Author:  [@pieper](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/pieper)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2021, 8:32pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/2021-09-14-weekly-meeting/19651/2 "2021-09-13T20:32:32Z")
I’d like to pick people’s brains about some ultrasound topics.
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### Author:  [@lassoan](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/lassoan)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2021, 4:46am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/2021-09-14-weekly-meeting/19651/3 "2021-09-14T04:46:35Z")
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](https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/issues/4893) ➡ **Disable shared memory transfer**
- [Remove LEGACY Remote Modules](https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/issues/4864) ➡ **Moved to Backlog**
- [Update Python version from 3.6.7 to 3.7 (or 3.8)](https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/issues/5014) ➡ **Confirmed** Keep in current milestone
- ~~[ENH: Set default VTK version to 9](https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/pull/5633)~~ ✅ **Merged**
- [Relocate community page](https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/issues/5283) ⌛ **@pieper to follow up**
- [Force libarchive to not use homebrew libraries during packaging on macOS](https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/issues/5415) ⌛ **Fix in progress by @jcfr**
- [Include a “maintainer guide” in readthedocs](https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/issues/5642) ➡ **Moved to Backlog**
- [Improve “release process” progress tracking](https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/issues/5641) ➡ **Moved to Backlog**
- [Crash when attempting to show slice of RGBA volume in 3D view](https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/issues/5753) ➡ **@Sam_Horvath will assign someone to it**
### Should we close?
- [Investigate improving visibility of 3D Slicer in google search results](https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/issues/3938) **keep and brainstorm more**
- [Markups Display Size](https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/issues/5180) ➡ **investigate more**
- [Slicer fails to start on default Ubuntu 20.04 configuration](https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/issues/5251)
- [Crash on Fedora 33 due to OpenSSL/Kerberos incompatibility](https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/issues/5663) ⌛ **Fix in progress by @jcfr**
- [Create new Linux archive for stable release including unstripped python libraries](https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/issues/5525)
- [MacOS extensions missing for SlicerPreview](https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/issues/5340) ➡ **@Sam_Horvath will close**
- [Slicer build error with VTK9 in debug mode due to SimpleITK Python configuration problem](https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/issues/5498)
## 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](https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/issues/4450)
- [Rename Slicer\_MAIN\_PROJECT\_\* variable to Slicer\_MAIN\_APP\_](https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/issues/4588) ➡: **Moved**
- [Allow customization of Slicer\_MAIN\_PROJECT\_VERSION\_FULL suffix](https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/issues/4657) ➡: **Moved**
- [Slicer\_VERSION set in the top CMakeLists do not update version in Slicer-build at Superbuild](https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/issues/4674)
- [Ensure remote project source download always complete before inner build starts](https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/issues/4774)
- [vtkMRMLSubjectHierarchyNode: Use of StartModify / EndModify leads to warnings](https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/issues/4650)
- [DICOMReaders test report missing fixedCorners attribute](https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/issues/4686)
- [Module without category can not be selected programatically if developer mode is disabled](https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/issues/4698)
- [restoring scene views leads to subject hierarchy crash](https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/issues/4581)
- [Replace dynamic lightbox views with static image generation](https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/issues/4749)
- [Show icon and associate slicer with .mrb and .mrml files](https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/issues/3167)
- [git core.autocrlf=true option causes erroneously modified source files and test failures](https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/issues/4212)
- [Advise users which extensions to install to load special file or DICOM formats](https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/issues/4753)
- [Apply linear transform with shear as non-linear transform](https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/issues/4499)
- [Move legacy Editor module to separate extension](https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/issues/4772)
- [Add test for vtkMRMLNode::HasCopyContent](https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/issues/4840)
- [Add migration guide related to update of MRML Node copy API](https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/issues/4842)
- [Improve SceneView to use sequences as storage backend and re-enable tests](https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/issues/4841)
- [Remove legacy modules](https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/pull/4904)
- [Add “Export as…” entry to Data context menu](https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/issues/4989)
- [Calling vtkMRMLSliceViewInteractorStyle::SetActionEnabled systematically disable SetCursorPosition](https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/issues/5175)
- [SlicerVMTK modules are hard to find](https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/issues/5187)
- [Interactive slice intersections](https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/issues/5544)
- [Some widgets not updating appropriately on style change](https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/issues/5135)
- [Add widget action for placing a markup control point](https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/issues/5247)
### Propose to fix
#### Various
- [Document all Slicer core modules on readthedocs](https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/issues/5664)
- [Windows Taskbar grouping](https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/issues/5616)
- [Selection in node selector is lost if importing a scene](https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/issues/4570)
- [Settings save on application exit does not work on macOS](https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/issues/4601)
- [New Slicer logo rollout](https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/issues/5367)
- [Instantiating a slicer.qSlicerWebWidget() breaks extensions manager](https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/issues/5632)
- [Fix py\_nomainwindow\_SegmentationsModuleTest2 on Linux](https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/issues/5427)
- [Update extensions for Slicer-4.13](https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/issues/5269)
- [Slicer application cannot be uninstalled on Windows](https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/issues/4933)
- [Create markups ROI](https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/issues/5061)
- [Make plane markups widget more similar to ROI markups widget](https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/issues/5519)
#### Build and packaging
- [QT Designer does not start on MacOS](https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/issues/4700)
- [Update extensions for Slicer-4.13](https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/issues/5269)
- [VTK9: Fix macOs packaging rules for extension with VTK remote dependency](https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/issues/5232)
- [Tests for TorchIO extension are failing on Slicer CDash](https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/issues/5036)
#### Extensions server
- [Cleanup datastore](https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/issues/4602)
- [build version listed on slicer download page differs from the downloaded folder](https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/issues/2706)
- [Show new Slicer Preview Release on download page when extension builds are completed](https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/issues/4976)
- [Slicer 5.0 Extension Manager: Manage Extensions Tab icons](https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/issues/4936)
- [Slicer 5.0 Extension Manager: Install Extensions Tab](https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/issues/4935)⌛ **~~Proposed change [here](https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/pull/5851)~~ ✅ Fixed**
- [Add “Update Extension” option under Manage Extensions](https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/issues/5470)
- [Add last modified date for extensions](https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/issues/5469)
- [Cleanup references to midas3 and/or slicer.kitware.com](https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/issues/5797)
- [DataStore module shows “Not Found”](https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/issues/5845) ⌛ **~~Proposed change [here](https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/issues/5845#ref-pullrequest-995674568)~~ ✅ Fixed**
- [Unable to manually install extension with ExtensionsManager](https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/issues/5840) ✅ **Fixed**
- [Re-home data organized in NA-MIC/Public/SampleData](https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/issues/5796)
#### Web infrastructure
- [Rename CDash project from Slicer4 to SlicerStable](https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/issues/4644)
- [Add disclaimer on top of Slicer3 related pages](https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/issues/3169)
- [Slicer API documentation is not up-to-date](https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/issues/4906)