# 2021.11.02 Weekly Meeting

**URL:** <https://discourse.slicer.org/t/2021-11-02-weekly-meeting/20436>\
**Category:** Weekly meetings\
**Created:** [November 1, 2021, 8:59am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/2021-11-02-weekly-meeting/20436 "2021-11-01T08:59:14Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![rbumm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/rbumm/32/9404_2.png) [@rbumm](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/rbumm)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2021, 8:59am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/2021-11-02-weekly-meeting/20436/1 "2021-11-01T08:59:14Z")

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Hello, I am planning to attend tomorrow to discuss the topic of “Add intuitive volume presets” as referenced [here](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/intuitive-volume-presets/20227/6) which resulted in a PR [here](https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/pull/5964#discussion_r739892818).

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**Author:** ![Sam\_Horvath](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/sam_horvath/32/3092_2.png) [@Sam\_Horvath](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/Sam_Horvath)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2021, 8:12pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/2021-11-02-weekly-meeting/20436/2 "2021-11-01T20:12:26Z")

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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
- Intuitive volume presets
- Git protocol changes

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

Thanks  
Sam and J-Christophe

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**Author:** ![RafaelPalomar](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/rafaelpalomar/32/1436_2.png) [@RafaelPalomar](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/RafaelPalomar)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2021, 1:28pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/2021-11-02-weekly-meeting/20436/3 "2021-11-02T13:28:53Z")

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Github is dropping unauthenticated git protocol: [https://github.blog/2021-09-01-improving-git-protocol-security-github/](https://github.blog/2021-09-01-improving-git-protocol-security-github/) which is used in Slicer by default.

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**Author:** ![pieper](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/pieper/32/8_2.png) [@pieper](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/pieper)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2021, 1:36pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/2021-11-02-weekly-meeting/20436/4 "2021-11-02T13:36:35Z")

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I think that matters only if you try to authenticate with https. I think we only ever use the anonymous checkout so we should be okay.

The post says this:

> If your Git remotes start with https://, nothing in this post will affect you.

Happy to learn more if I’m mistaken (I stopped reading the rest of the post about key details).

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**Author:** ![pieper](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/pieper/32/8_2.png) [@pieper](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/pieper)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2021, 1:38pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/2021-11-02-weekly-meeting/20436/5 "2021-11-02T13:38:39Z")

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Sorry, I read again - we do have some instances of git:// in the Slicer code so we should switch to https://

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**Author:** ![RafaelPalomar](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/rafaelpalomar/32/1436_2.png) [@RafaelPalomar](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/RafaelPalomar)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2021, 1:45pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/2021-11-02-weekly-meeting/20436/6 "2021-11-02T13:45:37Z")

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Is changing the default GIT\_PROTOCOL to https an option?

> <https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/pull/5980>
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> Github has disabled the unauthenticatd \`git protocol by default
> (see https://gi…thub.blog/2021-09-01-improving-git-protocol-security-github). By
> default, the Slicer superbuild uses the git protocol for a number of
> repositories hosted in Github.
> 
> This makes the \`https\` protocol the default protocol so the default
> configuration will be able to clone external dependencies from Github.