2025.10.07 Weekly Meeting

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

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

Agenda:

Please post to this thread to put a topic on the agenda! We will try to prioritize agenda items during the meeting.

Thanks
Sam and J-Christophe

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I have another meeting I need to attend at 10 tomorrow, but if people are still around at 11 I’d like to hear about where we are with the release and the Qt6 infrastructure.

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Changes are now being integrated in CTK & Slicer. Next to be merged are support for Python3 CMake module as well as automoc.

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Meeting Notes

Handling Build Issues Related to Dependencies

  • When facing errors related to dependencies, it’s generally more effective to perform a clean build.
  • If preserving existing source trees is desired, it’s acceptable to remove only the directories associated with dependencies to reset their build state.

Telemetry

Planned Improvements:

  • Display event names across all components simultaneously.
  • Introduce a tool to selectively delete statistics.
  • Add year labels to the time range selector, or provide explicit start and end date selection.
  • Follow up on official telemetry web service hosting – action item assigned to @jcfr.

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Support for Light Box

  • While reviewing PR-8773 – “ENH: Add vtkMRMLScriptedLightBoxRendererManagerProxy” – the team decided to remove support for Light Box in Slicer.

  • As described in Issue #4749 (“Replace dynamic lightbox views with static image generation”), the feature:

    • Is unreliable in many use cases.
    • Adds significant complexity to the rendering system.

  • Moving forward, static image generation will be favored over dynamic Light Box rendering.