hi Tully, I would like to participate. Lorenzo On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 12:49 AM, Tully Foote wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > In reviewing the state of ROS one of the things that is commonly sought in > the community is better visibility into the status of packages. Whether > packages are stable released software designed to be built on top of, or if > the software is a one time release designed for a single experiment is > sometimes very hard to tell. Also as people consider deploying ROS > outside of research experiments reliability becomes much more important. > > To be able to make this happen we'd like to review/rewrite the ROS QA > process.[1] And also while doing this we'd like to setup > some verifiable tests to pass to achieve levels of certification, which can > then be made visible on the wiki and/or in indexers to allow people to be > able to have confidence in software that is downloaded. > > I'd like to kick off this process shortly after the groovy freeze, with a > goal of having a working draft of the process > and certification requirements by the end of October. The process will > likely include a couple workshops, virtual or in person depending on the > distribution of participants. > > To address this issue, I'd like to put out a call for participation in > this working group. If you'd like to participate please contact me. > > Tully > > [1] http://www.ros.org/wiki/QAProcess > > > _______________________________________________ > ros-users mailing list > ros-users@code.ros.org > https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users > > -- > Lorenzo Riano, PhD > Research Scientist > EECS > University of California Berkeley > Berkeley, CA > 94720 > > email: > lorenzo.riano@berkeley.edu > skype: lorenzo.riano > > > >