On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 10:34 AM, Joe Romano <joeromano@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All -
> I have a patch I'd like to submit (attached) to the planning_environment
> package of the arm_navigation stack.
>
> Description below:
> -------------------
>
> It seems that no one bothered to copy over the normal and depth information
> of contact to the ROS collision message. ODE is already calculating this, so
> it is essentially free information being ignored. This seems especially
> important since the contact message already has normal and depth fields.
> These fields are not currently being set, and all result to 0.
>
> -------------------
>
> Hope that is useful. Perhaps I have missed something and this is being
> purposefully ignored. Feel free to respond if this is unclear.

Thanks for contributing to ROS development, Joe.

The best way to get maintainers' attention is to open a Trac
enhancement or defect ticket for the specific component with your
patch attached. E-mail messages are easy for busy people to overlook.
-- 
 joq