This page has the roadmap for the evaluation and release process.

Evaluation release

What is needed for an evaluation release to the working group

• Complete metadata structures
  • Misc with author names, affiliations, paper reference, time of acquisition, country, ...
  • System description
  • Finish sequence and probe implementations
• Working code for save/load
• Example data sets
  • Field II PSFs
    • Linear array/plane wave
    • Phased array/converging wave
    • Convex array/diverging wave
    • Matrix array/MLT
• Establish process for resolving disagreements about the standard
  • One vote per working group member group
  • Tie-break?

Release process

• Draft release (t=0)
• Issues shall be raised in the Bitbucket issue tracker
• Issues are discussed in the issue tracker, the development team keeps track of discussion and counts votes when discussion has stopped, announces vote count not anonymously
• Development team decides which issues can be included in next release

Contributors outside the development team

• Everyone is welcome to contribute and make pull requests
• The development team has the overview of the strategy and has the power to include or reject the request

Changes in development team

• The development team has three members
  • Four members are possible only for a transition period when one member is about to leave the team
• At every IEEE IUS meeting the development team is up for renewal
  • Self-nomination process
  • Sitting members can rerun
  • Majority vote with one vote per working group member group
  • Tie-break?