About publishing an extension with 3D Slicer

[Saima (saima safdar)]

Hi,
I submitted extension on github on Feb 13. Its BatchBrainMRTumorSegmentation. I do not know the status of it. And if it is merged I do not see it in extension manager. The issue is closed with the following status.
Successfully merging this pull request may close these issues.

Please help me publish the extension successfully.
Thank you

regards,
Saima

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

Thanks for your patience. Just so you know, there’s ongoing discussion and work on how to improve the extension process so that review of proposed extensions doesn’t become a bottleneck for progress. We want to set expectations correctly about how to make extensions available and what users can expect in terms of completeness and support while also simplifying the process for everyone.

You could refer to and perhaps participate in the discussion below to be sure your thoughts as an extension developer are reflected in the design.

Introduction of "tiers" for Slicer extensions

During our last Slicer developer hangout of March 13th 2024, we discussed the issue that review and approval of new extensions often takes very long time. We identified that the main difficulty was that extensions had to meet many requirements to be admitted to the Extensions Catalog. Reducing the requirements could make extensions approval easier but it could result in having lower quality extensions (harder to use, not well documented or tested, etc.). To address this problem, we propose orga…

Switch extension index entry format from "s4ext" to "json"