[ros-users] SIG Mailing List Visibility

[Marcus Liebhardt]

On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 4:16 AM, Tully Foote <tfoote at willowgarage.com>wrote:

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> On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 5:02 PM, Marcus Liebhardt <
> marcus.liebhardt at yujinrobot.com> wrote:
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>> On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 3:50 AM, Tully Foote <tfoote at willowgarage.com>wrote:
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>>> 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.
>>>
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>> Nice! Thanks Tully!
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>> 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).
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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> Due to the repeating nature of the SIG's we have updated the
> recommendations already as you suggested to not scope the SIGs to just one
> development cycle.  If you could add that small overview section that would
> be very helpful.
>

Done. Everybody, please feel free to add missing information and change the
wording, if dissatisfied.

@SIG coordinators and members: Please add your SIG to the active list [1],
if you find yours missing. Thank you!


Marcus

[1] http://www.ros.org/wiki/sig#Active_SIGs


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>> 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).
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> That's a good idea.  I've also updated the Get Involved page to reference
> the SIGs by name and gave a link to the landing page.
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> Tully
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>> What does the community think about that?
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>>
>> Marcus
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>>>
>>> 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
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>>> [1] http://www.ros.org/wiki/WikiMacros#GoogleGroups
>>> [2] http://www.ros.org/wiki/sig
>>>
>>>
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>>> (650) 475-2827
>>>
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