**Topics:** * Branching for ROS Melodic * New website and tutorials effort * Task planner * Cartesian path planning in MoveIt! * Moving to Discourse * C++11 auto et. al. in MoveIt * Future of indigo-devel * Python interface changes * ROS 2.0 (as always) * GSoC **Attendees:** * Michael v4hn Grner * Robert Haschke * Isaac IY Saito * Jorge Nicho * Dave Coleman * Ian McMahon * Bence Magyar * Jonathan Binney * Gijs Vanderhoorn * Mike Lautman * Andy McEvoy **Summary:** Branching for ROS Melodic - see [issue](https://github.com/ros-planning/moveit/issues/806) * Dave will fork for branches and setup CI * Jorge will run plugin migration scripts * Ian will work on tf2 migration * Python2 will be EOL mid-life of Melodic New website and tutorials effort - feedback: * Currently its a loose collection of individual points (needs a storyline) * Consistency * Planning for more advanced use cases (more complicated scenarios) * Additional sensors (kinetic) * Needs move_group interface API summary MoveIt! Task Planner * Heavy development, about to change API again * Execution module still missing Cartesian path planning in MoveIt! * Break messages sooner for new functionality * Discussed different planning methods - we need a plugin interface Moving to Discourse * everyone is +1 * Rename current MoveIt! Developers Discourse topic to MoveIt! users C++11 auto et. al. in MoveIt * Gorner will update style guidelines for auto usage * Namespace brackets can be around whole file instead of for each function Future of indigo-devel * Lots of PRs not backported into indigo at the moment * Its a lot of effort to backport everything * One more indigo release then stop making changes * PR2 is almost ready for Kinetic, lots of progress made Python interface changes * Most of functionality doesnt really work in python * Python interface diverging from C++ interface * Bence will try to keep slowly adding tests * moveit_python (Ferguson), does not wrap C++ but is native ROS 2.0 * PickNik trying to find sponsors for this effort * We will do some of the initial migration in ROS Melodic (tf, python) GSoC * Several students are currently applying via OSRF and JSK WMD Potential Dates * ROSCon: Sept 29-30th * IROS: Oct 1 * WMD: Oct 23 or 24 or 25? * NIPS: Dec 3 --- [Visit Topic](https://discourse.ros.org/t/maintainer-meeting-recap-march-20th/4255/1) or reply to this email to respond. If you do not want to receive messages from ros-users please use the unsubscribe link below. If you use the one above, you will stop all of ros-users from receiving updates. ______________________________________________________________________________ ros-users mailing list ros-users@lists.ros.org http://lists.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users Unsubscribe: