[ros-users] [Discourse.ros.org] [MoveIt! Developers] Maintainer Meeting Recap - March 20th

[Dave Coleman]

**Topics:**
* Branching for ROS Melodic
* New website and tutorials effort
* Task planner
* Cartesian path planning in MoveIt!
* Moving to Discourse
* C++11 auto et. al. in MoveIt
* Future of indigo-devel
* Python interface changes
* ROS 2.0 (as always)
* GSoC

**Attendees:**

* Michael v4hn Grner
* Robert Haschke
* Isaac IY Saito
* Jorge Nicho
* Dave Coleman
* Ian McMahon
* Bence Magyar
* Jonathan Binney
* Gijs Vanderhoorn
* Mike Lautman
* Andy McEvoy

**Summary:**

Branching for ROS Melodic - see [issue](https://github.com/ros-planning/moveit/issues/806)

* Dave will fork for branches and setup CI
* Jorge will run plugin migration scripts
* Ian will work on tf2 migration
* Python2 will be EOL mid-life of Melodic

New website and tutorials effort - feedback:
* Currently its a loose collection of individual points (needs a storyline)
* Consistency 
* Planning for more advanced use cases (more complicated scenarios)
* Additional sensors (kinetic)
* Needs move_group interface API summary

MoveIt! Task Planner
* Heavy development, about to change API again
* Execution module still missing

Cartesian path planning in MoveIt!
* Break messages sooner for new functionality
* Discussed different planning methods - we need a plugin interface

Moving to Discourse
* everyone is +1
* Rename current MoveIt! Developers Discourse topic to MoveIt! users

C++11 auto et. al. in MoveIt
* Gorner will update style guidelines for auto usage
* Namespace brackets can be around whole file instead of for each function

Future of indigo-devel
* Lots of PRs not backported into indigo at the moment
* Its a lot of effort to backport everything
* One more indigo release then stop making changes
* PR2 is almost ready for Kinetic, lots of progress made

Python interface changes
* Most of functionality doesnt really work in python
* Python interface diverging from C++ interface
* Bence will try to keep slowly adding tests
* moveit_python (Ferguson), does not wrap C++ but is native

ROS 2.0
* PickNik trying to find sponsors for this effort
* We will do some of the initial migration in ROS Melodic (tf, python)

GSoC
* Several students are currently applying via OSRF and JSK

WMD Potential Dates
* ROSCon: Sept 29-30th
* IROS:  Oct 1
* WMD: Oct 23 or 24 or 25?
* NIPS: Dec 3





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