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Re: ImageJ development involvement/contributions

Posted by Raymond Martin-2 on Dec 03, 2009; 1:14pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/ImageJ-development-involvement-contributions-tp3690030p3690088.html

Hi Volker,

Thanks for the information. I will certainly look into this further to see
where I can best contribute and what the pitfalls are.

Best regards,

Raymond

On December 3, 2009 05:26:54 am Volker Baecker wrote:

> Hello Raymond,
> welcome among the ImageJ users and developers and thank you for your
> intention to contribute to the project and share code.
>
> I'll try to explain how things are working here. Please note that this
> is my personal point of view and that I have no official authority to
> speak for anyone but myself.
>
> ImageJ itself is developed by Wayne Rasband. He is the only authority
> that decides what happens to it and which code will be integrated. The
> result of his work is in the public domain and used by many research
> groups around the world.
>
> If you want to get code into the ImageJ base there are basically two ways:
>
> - your code is so important that you propose it to Wayne directly (per
> email or via this list) and he decides to integrate it
>
> - You propose your code to the ImageJ community. If possible you make it
> available for download as an ImageJ plugin or if necessary as an
> alternative ImageJ version. You can put it on
> http://imagejdocu.tudor.lu/doku.php or somewhere else and announce it in
> this list. It can then be used this way for some time and prove its
> value. If there is an interest to have it in the base product Wayne
> might want to integrate it or use parts of it or rewrite the
> functionality in a different way sooner or later. I think there are
> quite some examples of code and ideas that started as plugins and became
> integrated into the code.
>
> There is a part of the ImageJ community that wants to make important
> changes  to the code base in order to allow ImageJ to be used as a
> library more easily and to have a better way to work with
> multi-dimensional images. If you want to participate in these
> discussions look at http://groups.google.com/group/imagejx
>
> Now what concerns swing. That was really bad look that you started with
> this ;-)
> It has been discussed many times here. There is an important part of the
> ImageJ community that is absolutely hostile against swing. I personally
> don't understand why (I think these are mainly mac users and that swing
> might have caused problems in older mac versions).
> On the other hand this is not so much of a problem since you can always
> use swing for your own plugins / or imagej based tools even if the
> ImageJ base windows are not using it.
>
> Best regards,
> Volker Bäcker