Re: [ros-users] SIG Mailing List Visibility

On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 3:50 AM, Tully Foote <tfoote@willowgarage.com>wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> People have made requests to make our SIGs easier to find.
>
> We've added a wiki macro to be able to embed views of the Google Groups
> used for SIG mailing lists into the Wiki. Documentation of how to do so is
> posted on the WIkiMacros page [1] I have demoed it on the Embedded SIG page
> as well.
>

Nice! Thanks Tully!

I would like to add a suggestion:
As far as I understood, SIGs have been introduced as planning groups
focusing on development in a certain area for a specific release. However,
some areas are not only important for one release, but also for continuous
development (e.g. manipulation: see fuerte/Planning/Manipulation,
groovy/Planning/MobileManipulation).

Hence, I'd like to propose to decouple the SIGs from the releases and
promote them as developer groups focusing on specific topics, e.g. drivers,
embedded, manipulation etc.
Each SIG could then decide, which newly developed features they want to
push into a specific release. Some SIGs are already working this way, e.g.
multimaster: http://www.ros.org/wiki<http://www.ros.org/wiki/sig/Multimaster>
/fuerte/Planning/Multimaster,
http://www.ros.org/wiki<http://www.ros.org/wiki/sig/Multimaster>/groovy/Planning/Multimaster
and http://www.ros.org/wiki/sig/Multimaster.

Actually, the new landing page can by understood in a way, which implements
my proposed change already. So, it might be only a matter of adding a small
overview section to describe the purpose of the SIGs.

And last, but not least, we should promote them better, e.g. highlight them
on http://www.ros.org/wiki/Get%20Involved (currently nested inside here:
http://www.ros.org/wiki/Get%20Involved#Developer-related_Mailing_Lists).

What does the community think about that?


Marcus


>
> If you are active in a SIG please help by improving the sig landing page
> [2[ by making it more complete. It's now linked from the homepage.
>
> Tully
>
>
>
> [1] http://www.ros.org/wiki/WikiMacros#GoogleGroups
> [2] http://www.ros.org/wiki/sig
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