A couple thoughts, as an outsider (slash interested student). [quote="gbiggs, post:5, topic:7782"] This is why I like the idea of having a regularly scheduled teleconference where we can ask about something and get a rapid, easily-clarified answer. [/quote] [quote="gbiggs, post:15, topic:7782"] Another idea is, when a new design pull request or major feature implementation pull request goes up, to schedule a day or two later a teleconference to talk about it as part of the review process. [/quote] Something like PX4's [weekly dev call](https://dev.px4.io/en/contribute/dev_call.html) would help outsiders like me keep up with development and slowly get involved. It would also make development more transparent and open to the community. There's already a couple WGs for specific areas (e.g. navigation), but there are none for core ROS2 stuff (AFAIK) other than the (closed-ish) TSC. [quote="cratliff, post:11, topic:7782"] I think it would be useful to examine what particular issue causes the IRC to be inactive. [/quote] Too many options just gets confusing, even if each one has its specific uses (discourse vs. answers vs. GitHub vs. IRC). --- [Visit Topic](https://discourse.ros.org/t/design-process-of-ros-2/7782/16) 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: