Hello everyone,
Happy Valentine's day in arrears.
Just like last year, I'm once more thrilled to mentor students this year
with BRL-CAD or openCAx.
At Your Service,
Isaac Kamga.
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> 5. Spring Cleaning! (Christopher Sean Morrison)
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> Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2016 18:06:12 +0000
> From: Bob Anderson <bob.ander...@survice.com>
> Subject: Re: [brlcad-devel] rtg3 script
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> Thanks for the update. I will be waiting?anxiously?and patiently ;-)
>
> Bob
>
> From: Christopher Sean Morrison [mailto:brl...@mac.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2016 1:00 PM
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> Cc: LeAnne McKay; John Davis
> Subject: Re: [brlcad-devel] rtg3 script
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>
> On Feb 03, 2016, at 08:38 AM, Bob Anderson <bob.ander...@survice.com
> <mailto:bob.ander...@survice.com>> wrote:
> Well that?s good to know. I had no idea that there was a difference other
> than appearance which I just attributed to the font. He did get it running
> yesterday using the same command, but we had no idea why. Thanks for the
> help.
> On that note, I believe I fixed the underlying cause for that error last
> night. It needs to be tested, but you shouldn't need to specify the
> ray_data_file or stub an empty one now (i.e., in the next release). If
> you're set up to compile, I could use an independent set of eyes to confirm
> it's fixed.
>
> Any news on an update for BRL-CAD? It?s been a while.
> A special release was made a month or two back for ARL/DoD, version
> 7.24.4, but it was not posted publicly (only to the repo). The focus is
> now on 7.26.0, which I'm hoping reviews will be wrapped up this or next
> week.
>
> I'm still working through the massive backlog of work we acquired last
> year -- thousands of changes; an incredible amount of activity including
> changes to our core geometry analysis infrastructure. We don't release
> until every change has been reviewed by someone, regression tests all pass,
> and every user-visible change has been documented.
>
> The reviews are nearly complete and tests are all passing, but there is a
> lot of documenting still needed.
>
> Cheers!
> Sean
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> Date: Thu, 04 Feb 2016 01:31:30 -0500
> From: Christopher Sean Morrison <brl...@mac.com>
> Subject: [brlcad-devel] GSoC head count
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> Hi All,
>
> GCI is wrapping up now so it?s that time of year again ? GSoC again or
> take a break?
>
> If you?re interested in mentoring for GSoC again this year, please speak
> up. We need a quorum of interest. There?s still backlog to be worked, but
> there's clearly been some good progress in the past few months. I?ll may
> apply as a CAx umbrella regardless so we can continue to make collaborative
> progress, but there?s no pressure for us to participate. Send me a note
> public or private if you?re available and interested.
>
> Cheers!
> Sean
>
>
>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2016 14:17:45 +0100
> From: Daniel Ro?berg <danielmrossb...@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [brlcad-devel] rtg3 script
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> Does this mean that we have a feature freeze?
>
> Daniel
>
>
> 2016-02-03 19:00 GMT+01:00 Christopher Sean Morrison <brl...@mac.com>:
> ...
> > Any news on an update for BRL-CAD? It?s been a while.
> >
> > A special release was made a month or two back for ARL/DoD, version
> 7.24.4,
> > but it was not posted publicly (only to the repo). The focus is now on
> > 7.26.0, which I'm hoping reviews will be wrapped up this or next week.
> >
> > I'm still working through the massive backlog of work we acquired last
> year
> > -- thousands of changes; an incredible amount of activity including
> changes
> > to our core geometry analysis infrastructure. We don't release until
> every
> > change has been reviewed by someone, regression tests all pass, and every
> > user-visible change has been documented.
> >
> > The reviews are nearly complete and tests are all passing, but there is a
> > lot of documenting still needed.
> >
> > Cheers!
> > Sean
>
>
>
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> Message: 4
> Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2016 11:30:11 -0500
> From: Christopher Sean Morrison <brl...@mac.com>
> Subject: Re: [brlcad-devel] rtg3 script
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> On Feb 5, 2016, at 8:17 AM, Daniel Ro?berg <danielmrossb...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Does this mean that we have a feature freeze?
>
> Not doing anything too disruptive until there is a merge to the RELEASE
> branch would be nice, but there?s a lot of flexibility if folks are working
> on things and it?s definitely not strictly necessary. If something
> risky/untested/undocumented/disruptive comes in at the last minute, we?ll
> simply pull a revision earlier.
>
> As soon as I get through the remainder of commit reviews, I'll snap trunk
> to the RELEASE branch. That?s the real indication that release is imminent
> and what makes it to the branch is close to what will be in the release.
> The branch is in place specifically so we don?t have to freeze trunk.
>
> We?ve not had a release in so long that this one is going to be pretty
> darn major.
>
> Cheers!
> Sean
>
>
>
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> Message: 5
> Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2016 22:32:38 -0500
> From: Christopher Sean Morrison <brl...@mac.com>
> Subject: [brlcad-devel] Spring Cleaning!
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> Hello everyone!
>
> Unprecedented in BRL-CAD?s history, we?re looking to eliminate features,
> tools, and data from the package that are infrequently used. The reasons
> for this should be pretty obvious. Towards that end, we want to give
> people as much advance notice as possible though we hope these are all
> mostly unused features. First step is to run a preliminary list by
> developers, get your feedback on what to keep or what else to remove, and
> then run the final list by users.
>
> Here?s the initial list of some command-line utilities on the chopping
> block for consideration:
>
> Ray tracers:
>
> lgt (incorporating into nirt)
> rtcell
> rtfrac
> rtpp
> rtrad
> rtrange
> rtray (superseded by rtshot)
> rtregis
> rtsil
>
> Converters:
>
> bot-bldxf (superseded by bot_dump)
> bot_shell-vtk
> rt_bot_faces
> cy-g (dead format)
> euclid-g (dead format)
> euclid_format
> euclid_unformat
> g-euclid
> g-euclid1
> g-nmg (superseded by facetize)
> g-tankill (dead format)
> intaval-g.py (superseded by tgf-g)
> nmg-* (superseded by facetize)
> poly-bot (incorporated into dbupgrade)
> viewpoint-g (dead format)
> plot3* (superseded by plot, integrated into icv)
>
> Image utilities:
>
> Colormap support, *cmap* tools (obsolete hardware)
> All RLE tools from the Utah Raster Toolkit (keeping librle for icv)
> fbed (outside our domain)
> fbscanplot
> polar-fb
> pp-fb
> spm-fb
> pix-spm
> bw-imp
> morphedit.tcl
> pixinfo.sh
> pixmorph (outside domain)
> pixpaste (outside domain)
>
> Animation:
>
> anim_* (command-line animation scripting outside domain)
> orbit.sh
> rtwalk
> scriptsort
> script-tab
> tabinterp
> tabsup
> azel
> bary
>
> Signal analysis:
>
> a-*, *-a (incorporate into cv)
> d-*, *-d, f-*, *-f, i-*, *-i, u-*, *-u (superseded by cv)
> double-asc (incorporate into cv)
>
> Infrared and shapefactor tools:
>
> all_sf
> if-X
> irdisp
> pictx
> showtherm
> firpass
> secpass
> shapefact
> ssamp-bw
> ssampview
> ssampview.tcl
>
> Misc:
>
> fix_polysolids (obsolete primitive)
> remapid (superseded by reid+remat)
> terrain
> rawbot
> buffer (network/stream buffering tool)
> dbcp (superseded by scp)
> hex (superseded by hexdump)
>
> ---
>
> This represents about 180 command-line commands, roughly 45% of our
> installed command set. It?s a start. There?s also plans to consolidate
> most of the remaining image and geometry conversion tools into icv and gcv
> respectively. This should get us down to a goal of less than 100
> command-line utilities.
>
> Thoughts? Any others to remove? Are any of these in use? We?ll start
> scheduling most for deprecation over the next couple weeks unless
> objections are raised, except those getting refactored into other tools.
>
> Cheers!
> Sean
>
>
>
>
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> Message: 6
> Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 14:35:19 -0600
> From: Tom Browder <tom.brow...@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [brlcad-devel] Spring Cleaning!
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> On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 9:32 PM, Christopher Sean Morrison
> <brl...@mac.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hello everyone!
> >
> > Unprecedented in BRL-CAD?s history, we?re looking to eliminate features,
> tools, and data from the package that are infrequently used. The reasons
> for this should be pretty obvious. Towards that end, we want to give
> people as much advance notice as possible though we hope these are all
> mostly unused features. First step is to run a preliminary list by
> developers, get your feedback on what to keep or what else to remove, and
> then run the final list by users.
> >
> > Here?s the initial list of some command-line utilities on the chopping
> block for consideration:
> ... # LONG list follows...
>
> I say "Dump them all, full speed ahead!"
>
> Cheers!
>
> -Tom
>
>
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