I created a wiki page for the SIG and added the ideas from this thread:
http://www.ros.org/wiki/hydromedusa/Planning/roslaunch

On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 12:05 PM, Jonathan Bohren <jonathan.bohren@gmail.com
> wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 6:14 PM, Lorenzo Riano <lorenzo.riano@berkeley.edu
> > wrote:
>
>> I would have a long list of suggestions. Is anybody setting up a SIG?
>>
>> Lorenzo
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 4:14 AM, Weißhardt, Florian <
>> Florian.Weisshardt@ipa.fraunhofer.de> wrote:
>>
>>> +1
>>>
>>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>>> Von: ros-users-bounces@code.ros.org [mailto:
>>> ros-users-bounces@code.ros.org] Im Auftrag von Brice Rebsamen
>>> Gesendet: Dienstag, 14. August 2012 04:20
>>> An: User discussions
>>> Betreff: Re: [ros-users] Extending roslaunch
>>>
>>> I'd like to suggest adding the 'machine' attribute to the 'include'
>>> and 'group' tags.
>>> Brice
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 10:52 PM, Dan Lazewatsky <
>>> lazewatskyd@cse.wustl.edu> wrote:
>>> > I think there are a lot of potential changes that could make roslaunch
>>> > easier to user. Maybe we should setup a SIG to discuss these things,
>>> > even if it is too late to do so for Groovy.
>>> >
>>> > -Dan
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 7:55 AM, Cedric Pradalier
>>> > <cedric.pradalier@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> Hi,
>>> >>
>>> >> If we discuss roslaunch extension, one very important thing would be
>>> >> to add dependencies, i.e. launch prog X once Y is running...
>>> >> I know this raises all kind of complicated issues especially when
>>> >> respawning but it would avoid developing the corresponding logic in
>>> >> each node.
>>> >>
>>> >> Regards
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 2:01 PM, Bill Morris
>>> >> <bill@iheartengineering.com>
>>> >> wrote:
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Does anyone have any opinions on extending the roslaunch and its XML
>>> >>> format?
>>> >>>
>>> >>> I would like to propose modifications to the <launch> tag by adding
>>> >>> a 'name' and 'description' attributes or elements. Icon information
>>> >>> might also be nice as well, but isn't really as important. These
>>> >>> will help make it easier to figure out what your launch files do in
>>> >>> a way that is machine readable for other applications.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> For example, one idea is to be able to double click on a launch file
>>> >>> have it start without a terminal, then it could call libnotify with
>>> >>> the name and description of the launch file that was started.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> This would provide helpful feedback to the user as some launch files
>>> >>> take a while to actually start.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> One issue I see is that libnotify/dbus seem designed to work on the
>>> >>> local machine and multi master will probably fail. One fix for this
>>> >>> might be to have roslaunch broadcast the Name and Description of
>>> >>> each launch file it starts on a topic. Another node could then
>>> >>> bridge this topic to libnotify.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> tl;dr
>>> >>> launch file as a desktop icon, click it, too long to start.
>>> >>> What is the easiest way to fix?
>>> >>>
>>> >>> --
>>> >>> Bill Morris <bill@iheartengineering.com> I Heart Engineering
>>> >>> http://www.iheartengineering.com
>>> >>> <3
>>> >>>
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>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> --
>>> >> Cedric Pradalier
>>>
>>
> Well the primary Groovy SIG feature freeze is tomorrow, but you can
> definitely start planning one for Hydromedusa.
>
> -j
>
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