http://www.k-wave.org/forum/topic/contributing-to-the-k-wave-toolbox Support for the k-Wave MATLAB toolbox en-US Tue, 12 May 2026 23:07:36 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://www.k-wave.org/forum/search.php http://www.k-wave.org/forum/topic/contributing-to-the-k-wave-toolbox#post-552 Tue, 19 Jun 2012 00:18:33 +0000 Bradley Treeby 552@http://www.k-wave.org/forum/ <p>Hi jwjs,</p> <p>Thanks for your comments, it's definitely valuable to get your opinion. As you have noted, the k-Wave project so far has really been an in-house software development project, rather than a community software project. The new features are often closely tied to our scientific research (for example, nonlinearity was added in B.0.5), so often a manuscript gets submitted at the same time as a new release comes out. The codes are released under an open-source license to allow other users flexibility in what they do with the code. We currently have a number of academic staff, post-docs, and students working on and with the toolbox, so hopefully new releases should be a couple of times a year. We also receive a number of suggestions, code snippets, examples, and bug reports from external users, which is extremely useful. </p> <p>With this in mind, I completely agree that this release model makes it more difficult for external people to contribute directly to the code-base. So far, there hasn't been many people wanting to do this, so it hasn't really been a problem. I guess as the scientific functionality of the code stabilises (which it will), then an open repository is likely to be a better approach, particularly for the C++ codes. In the meantime, if there is something in particular you are interested in contributing, then please do let us know.</p> <p>We are planning to release our first version of the C++ code for shared memory NUMA architectures in the coming months (described <a href="http://www.k-wave.org/papers/2012-Treeby-JASA.pdf">here</a>). Other versions are under active development, and releases will follow as they are completed and tested.</p> <p>Kind regards,</p> <p>Brad. </p> http://www.k-wave.org/forum/topic/contributing-to-the-k-wave-toolbox#post-551 Mon, 18 Jun 2012 13:47:43 +0000 jwjs 551@http://www.k-wave.org/forum/ <p>Hi Ben,</p> <p>I've noticed that k-Wave is under a GPL license, meaning open-source. As jkiv has mentioned, a public repository for developers to have access would be very beneficial for the community using this software. I would be extremely interested in contributing (especially to a threaded/distributed version running in C/C++ for a lighter memory footprint) to k-Wave, but the current development model makes this... well less than desirable. Getting access to k-Wave via emails as progress moves along is great for end-users, but as someone who is interested in contributing-to/modifying k-Wave there is little incentive. Is there no code repository set-up for k-Wave to use? This would seem quite strange to me for a project of this size. And if there is, is it possible to get access? I would love to see k-Wave opened up to the community for further development. Maybe a possibility? </p> http://www.k-wave.org/forum/topic/contributing-to-the-k-wave-toolbox#post-69 Tue, 12 Oct 2010 23:08:14 +0000 bencox 69@http://www.k-wave.org/forum/ <p>Jon,<br /> Thanks for these tips, we'll look into them. Hopefully we will need something like this soon as more people are keen to contribute.<br /> Ben </p> http://www.k-wave.org/forum/topic/contributing-to-the-k-wave-toolbox#post-67 Tue, 12 Oct 2010 19:33:47 +0000 jkiv 67@http://www.k-wave.org/forum/ <p>+1 for <code>git</code> (if you haven't already considered something)</p> <p>Services like <code>gitorious</code> and <code>github</code> allow anyone to setup a <code>git</code> repository easily. I know with <code>github</code> at least, it is easy to fork a project and publish changes, and perhaps eventually merge back into the original project (though I've never done this.)</p> <p>There are also similar services for <code>Mercurial</code> like <code>BitBucket</code>.</p> <p>(Not to be spammy but if people are eager to contribute these are good tools to look at.) </p> http://www.k-wave.org/forum/topic/contributing-to-the-k-wave-toolbox#post-65 Tue, 12 Oct 2010 17:17:44 +0000 bencox 65@http://www.k-wave.org/forum/ <p>Hi Martin,</p> <p>Glad you're finding it useful. We're very keen for users to contribute to the project, but have no formal mechanism as such yet. For a short function the easiest thing might be to copy and paste it straight onto this forum. For longer functions you could email it to us at <a href="mailto:mail@k-wave.org">mail@k-wave.org</a>, or perhaps host it somewhere and post a link to it here on the forum. If the functions prove useful then we'll give them a polish (if they need it) and use them in future versions of k-Wave (with the author acknowledged, of course).</p> <p>If there are other things that you would like to see in k-Wave please let us know. We have a list of improvements that we're working our way through and we're always keen to add to it!</p> <p>Thanks,</p> <p>Ben </p> http://www.k-wave.org/forum/topic/contributing-to-the-k-wave-toolbox#post-64 Tue, 12 Oct 2010 14:29:39 +0000 Martin 64@http://www.k-wave.org/forum/ <p>Hello, I just started using k-Wave, and I find it incredibly useful. I'm a PhD student working on various ultrasound applications for nondestructive testing, and previously I've been working with Comsol Multiphysics, but k-Wave is both more lightweight and better suited to my simulations. </p> <p>I was just wondering if the creators of k-Wave would be interested in having their users contribute to the toolbox? I imagine that I will be making a few additional functions that are helpful for my applications - for example a "makeLine" function similar to the "makeCircle" function that already exists - and I'd be happy to share them with others.</p> <p>Kind regards,<br /> --<br /> Martin </p>