PyXNAT

Background

PyXNAT has proven a valuable tool for XNAT, and the 0.x series is somewhat stable at this point.  Some sort of plan for the future is in order.

When/where

Friday, 1:00-?, Room 207.

Who

• Christian (lead)
• Rick (lead)
• Scott Burns (in absentia)
• Dave J (Mayo)
• Ben Wagner
• Miklos Espak
• Shree Unde

Outcomes

We need to decide the practical aspects of maintaining pyxnat, perhaps moving it to XNAT's bitbucket.  Being able to use XNAT's Jira for bugs (bugs to bugs@xnat.org can be shunted to pyxnat) will be helpful.  We need to coordinate this with Yannick.

A developer round table area will be set up for continued conversation.

Christian will draft and circulate a road map for (at least short-term) continued development.

Specific issues:

• Better documentation is needed.
• Better debugging/logging messages are needed.
• Some performance issues need to be addressed (Ben).
• Versioning should be thought through: it would be helpful if pyxnat versions somehow indicated the supported XNAT version.
• The ability to freeze and commit at once local changes would be useful.
• SPDY might help with speed.