2025.10.07 Weekly Meeting

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

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.

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

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.

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.