Would it be appropriate to also extend the SIG discussion to include
migration to other architectures? I for one am keen on seeing ROS deployed
on ARM SBC's. There is already some community support and at least one
existing implementation that I know of.

K

On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Willy Lambert <lambert.willy@gmail.com>wrote:

> I don't have a good experience of ROS, but I think that one of the big
> requirement for large enterprise scale use is to separate jobs and
> competencies. So that different people can work with different
> knowledge of the application details. Maybe ROS already allow that,
> but it is for sure a point of interest.
>
> 2012/4/12 Edwards, Shaun M. <sedwards@swri.org>:
> > All,
> >
> >
> >
> > We have been using ROS for some time now.  Projects that originally
> started
> > as research are now maturing to the point where they need to be deployed.
> > As we have started moving ROS from research applications to real world
> > applications  it is becoming very clear that stability, safety, and
> > reliability are of chief concerns to our customers.  For early adopters,
> we
> > can alleviate these issues by standing behind the software as a whole,
> > including ROS.  After all, sometimes it is easier to support an open
> > software solution than it is a closed solution, since not all closed
> source
> > software vendors live up to our customers expectations.
> >
> >
> >
> > I would like to gauge community interest in creating a group whose
> purpose
> > is to test, review, and certify robust, stable, and safe  Enterprise
> > versions of ROS.  This may be a group of volunteers, but I fully expect
> that
> > such a group would need significant funding, hopefully by commercial and
> > other large users.  It is also possible that a company could be create
> for
> > or step into this role, much like RedHat.
> >
> >
> >
> > Is anybody open to this idea?  Is this a good idea?  Has anybody else
> > seen/expressed this need?  Is ROS at the point where this makes sense?
> What
> > do you think?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Shaun Edwards
> >
> > Senior Research Engineer
> >
> > Manufacturing System Department
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > http://robotics.swri.org
> >
> > http://rosindustrial.swri.org/
> >
> > http://ros.swri.org
> >
> > Southwest Research Institute
> >
> > 210-522-3277
> >
> >
> >
> >
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