[ros-users] [Discourse.ros.org] [MoveIt!] MoveIt! Maintainer Meeting Recap - Dec 18 2018

[Henning Kayser]

**Agenda**



* World MoveIt! Day and MoveItCon 2019

* Master branch and release versions

* Improving Code Reviews

* Pilzs Cartesian planner and MotionPlanRequest changes

* World MoveIt! Day China



**Attendees**



* Michael Grner

* Jorge Nicho

* Gijs van der Hoorn

* Robert Haschke

* Dave Coleman

* Harold Yang

* Adam Alami

* Andy McEvoy

* Isaac Salto

* Joachim Schleicher

* Jonathan Binney

* Mike Lautman

* Nathan Brooks

* Simon Schmeisser

* Will Baker

* Zak Kingston

* Henning Kayser

* Daniel Bakovic

* Ian McMannon



**Summary**



* World MoveIt! Day 2019

    - Possible dates: Nov 19 - Nov 21 

    - ROS-Industrial wants to support WMD

    - Not before IROS, since its good advertisement

* MoveItCon 2019

    - Maintainer meeting earlier?

    - Look into workshop at ICRA

* Master branch release

    - When melodic API is stable?

    - Possible release types

        1. Debian

        2. Build Farm

        3. Open Robotics

        4. Docker

        5. Tarball package

        6. Snap

* Improving Code Reviews

    - Not enough reviewers (lack of confidence an issue?)

    - Allow faster merging of pull requests

        1. Maintainers should commit small changes to pull requests branch

        2. Decrease number of required reviews?

    - Label pull requests for better assignment and workload distribution?

* Pilzs Cartesian Planner

    - Cartesian planning using the MoveIt! planning pipeline

    - Supports the full MotionPlanRequest specification

    - Adds changes the MotionPlanRequest message

* World MoveIt! Day China

    - Held by Intel

    - Attendees/support from industrial companies and government

    - Agenda:

        * Morning: Technical presentations and sharings

            1. Intel open source contributions to ROS2 and MoveIt!

            2. Intel platform technologies, partner companies and smart manufacturing

        * Afternoon: MoveIt! Workshop

            1. MoveIt! projects and hands on

            2. Code contributions and working on issues

            3. Review session

    - Intel funding for MoveIt! 2.0?

* IK Regression in Melodic and Ubuntu 18.04











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