[ros-users] Wiki documentation for twist_mux package

[G.A. vd. Hoorn - 3ME]

On 07/05/15 17:16, Jorge Santos Simón via ros-users wrote:
> Same happen again some days ago, with a new driver for DepthSense DS325 3D
> Camera.
>
> Maybe we need some short of index of packages organized by category... no
> idea if something like this exists

Isn't that what rosindex [1] is supposed to be? Provided pkgs add 
correct tags to their manifests [2]?

The issue with tagging / category systems is always: who curates / comes 
up with the tags / categories.

What is a 'logical' tag for me isn't necessarily obvious to others, and 
vice versa.


Gijs


[1] http://rosindex.github.io/
[2] http://rosindex.github.io/contribute/metadata/#metadata-elements

>
> 2015-04-06 14:56 GMT+02:00 Mike Purvis via ros-users <
> ros-users at lists.ros.org>:
>
>> Agree, but I think teleop and muxers in particular are a bit of a special
>> case. They're so easy to write, and are a decent learning opportunity, so a
>> lot of them get created by novices in the learning process, and then
>> unwittingly made available as "universal" or "generic".
>>
>> If you're integrating a robot and need either of these services, I
>> encourage you to check out the ros-teleop org on github
>> <https://github.com/ros-teleop>.
>>
>> Even within the org, there's slight repetition, but the basic idea is that
>> joy_teleop and key_teleop are python-implemented and very flexible, able to
>> publish *any* message based on configuration from a yaml file, whereas
>> teleop_twist_joy is specifically for publishing twist messages, and is C++
>> implemented, intended to be able to easily compile into a larger "base
>> robot" node.
>>
>> The twist_mux package does what it says on the tin, and is similarly easy
>> to embed into another process.
>>
>> M.
>>
>> On 5 April 2015 at 22:48, Daniel Stonier via ros-users <
>> ros-users at lists.ros.org> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Seems to be rather alot of parallelisation happening these days.
>>>
>>> I understand that it takes time to collaborate and that natural selection
>>> from multiple implementations are also a way of evolving the code available
>>> in our robotic community, but I do believe at least some preliminary
>>> discussion and collaboration on software that 90% fits can often get you
>>> that last 10% much faster than evolving it entirely yourself. It also
>>> rounds out an implementation to be more satisfactory for everyone. Another
>>> problem everpresent with ROS software is maintenance - n implementations
>>> are of no use long term if maintainers can't keep up with all that they try
>>> to maintain.
>>>
>>> I'd like to encourage people to first look to see what is there, see if
>>> something is a 90% fit, discuss and then iterate using the usual fork/pull
>>> request cycle where possible.
>>>
>>> Daniel.
>>>
>>> On 6 April 2015 at 09:27, Jihoon via ros-users <ros-users at lists.ros.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>   FYI,
>>>>
>>>> There has also been another twist mux.
>>>> http://wiki.ros.org/yocs_cmd_vel_mux
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Jihoon
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 2015년 04월 06일 09:19, Enrique Fernández Perdomo via ros-users wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hello everyone,
>>>>
>>>>   I've recently and finally added some documentation for the twist_mux
>>>> package; although it still can be improved. This package allows to
>>>> multiplex geometry_msgs::Twist messages.
>>>>
>>>>   http://wiki.ros.org/twist_mux
>>>>
>>>>   Please, don't hesitate to contact me for any doubt or suggestion.
>>>> Note that I've recently updated my e-mail as maintainer, and here I'm
>>>> using my personal one. Feel free to reach me which any of them.
>>>>
>>>>   Cheers,
>>>> Enrique
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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