Recap of the meeting from March 7th, 2017:
**Attendees**
* Michael 'v4hn' Grner
* Robert Haschke
* Isaac IY Saito
* Jorge Nicho
* Shaun Edwards
* G.A. vd. Hoorn
* Paul Hvass
* Christian Dornhege
* Dave Coleman
**Releasing ROS Lunar and branching policy**
* Keep development in kinetic-devel branch as long as possible
* If we have to branch for Lunar, we will also still develop out of Kinetic
* Drop support for Jade, just like the main ROS release will
* Only add bug fixes for indigo-devel branch
* Accept pull requests to kinetic-devel branch that allow for backward compatibility with ROS Indigo
**MoveIt! 1.0 roadmap**
* An exhaustive interface review of the current API is impractical
* Decouple the meaning of MoveIt!'s major version number from ROS 2.0
* Stop using minor versions to indicate ROS release
* Increment major versions more often to indicate API changes
**ROS 2.0 and nodelets roadmap**
* We desire to integrate ROS 2.0 with MoveIt!, but it is not highest priority
* This effort would require funding and a dedicated full-time developer
* MoveIt! would be a good poster child candidate for pushing the entire ROS community to adopt ROS 2.0
* Desired features include the DDS communication layer and switching our plugin based architecture to nodelets
* We would likely rename MoveIt! to MoveIt! 2.0
* There are still many dependencies we are waiting for, such as URDF 2.0
* Needs further discussion with OSRF team
**Merging Descartes back into MoveIt!**
* Everyone is very excited to proceed with this effort
* Best approach is likely to create a new MoveIt! capability that calls Descartes
* Need to define new ROS message types
**Required PR reviews enforced on Github**
* Decided against enabling this feature because it does not solve a current problem and only makes merging PRs more difficult
**Google Summer of Code**
* MoveIt! applied to the Google Summer of Code through the OSRF parent organization, which was not accepted
* We are still interested in doing some summer code sprints outside of Google
* Funding sources with high potential were discussed
**New Video Montage**
* Our previous montage is dated from 2013
* Paul Hvass will be leading the call for videos along with ROS-Industrial
Thanks to the maintainers who joined the call.
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