Hello ROS community, two exciting MoveIt! announcements:
# Merging MoveIt! Repos
In an effort to reduce the friction in maintaining and improving the MoveIt! code base, we are planning on consolidating
9 of our current Github repositories into one
master repo. The rational for this has been discussed on
Discourse. We are targeting this consolidation for
Friday August 5th. If you develop from source code in MoveIt!, please take a look at the
migration notes and the section
How You Can Help Us.
# World MoveIt! Day
Mark your calendars for our first ever "World MoveIt! Day" on Tuesday August 23rd - a day long international hackathon to improve the MoveIt! code base, documentation, and community. Following the heels of the repo merge, we hope to fix all broken links in the documentation, close as many longstanding pull requests and issues as possible, and have some fun with a newly released simulation of MoveIt! manipulation + Gazebo + Fetch for us to do integration tests with.
For those in the Bay Area in California, Fetch Robotics will be sponsoring an event with food, several robots to play with, and in house engineers to help with the hackathon.
For people who aren't in the Bay Area - you are encouraged to have your own event in your lab/organization/company and video conference in to all the other events. We would also like to mail your team or event some MoveIt! stickers to schwag out your robots with. Join the discussion for this event on
Discourse or subscribe to the
moveit mailing list for more updates.