I created a wiki page for the SIG and added the ideas from this thread: <a href="http://www.ros.org/wiki/hydromedusa/Planning/roslaunch">http://www.ros.org/wiki/hydromedusa/Planning/roslaunch</a><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 12:05 PM, Jonathan Bohren <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jonathan.bohren@gmail.com" target="_blank">jonathan.bohren@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div><div><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 6:14 PM, Lorenzo Riano <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lorenzo.riano@berkeley.edu" target="_blank">lorenzo.riano@berkeley.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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I would have a long list of suggestions. Is anybody setting up a SIG?<br><br>Lorenzo<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 4:14 AM, Weißhardt, Florian <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Florian.Weisshardt@ipa.fraunhofer.de" target="_blank">Florian.Weisshardt@ipa.fraunhofer.de</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Gesendet: Dienstag, 14. August 2012 04:20<br>
An: User discussions<br>
Betreff: Re: [ros-users] Extending roslaunch<br>
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I'd like to suggest adding the 'machine' attribute to the 'include'<br>
and 'group' tags.<br>
Brice<br>
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On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 10:52 PM, Dan Lazewatsky <<a href="mailto:lazewatskyd@cse.wustl.edu" target="_blank">lazewatskyd@cse.wustl.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
> I think there are a lot of potential changes that could make roslaunch<br>
> easier to user. Maybe we should setup a SIG to discuss these things,<br>
> even if it is too late to do so for Groovy.<br>
><br>
> -Dan<br>
><br>
><br>
> On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 7:55 AM, Cedric Pradalier<br>
> <<a href="mailto:cedric.pradalier@gmail.com" target="_blank">cedric.pradalier@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> Hi,<br>
>><br>
>> If we discuss roslaunch extension, one very important thing would be<br>
>> to add dependencies, i.e. launch prog X once Y is running...<br>
>> I know this raises all kind of complicated issues especially when<br>
>> respawning but it would avoid developing the corresponding logic in<br>
>> each node.<br>
>><br>
>> Regards<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 2:01 PM, Bill Morris<br>
>> <<a href="mailto:bill@iheartengineering.com" target="_blank">bill@iheartengineering.com</a>><br>
>> wrote:<br>
>>><br>
>>> Does anyone have any opinions on extending the roslaunch and its XML<br>
>>> format?<br>
>>><br>
>>> I would like to propose modifications to the <launch> tag by adding<br>
>>> a 'name' and 'description' attributes or elements. Icon information<br>
>>> might also be nice as well, but isn't really as important. These<br>
>>> will help make it easier to figure out what your launch files do in<br>
>>> a way that is machine readable for other applications.<br>
>>><br>
>>> For example, one idea is to be able to double click on a launch file<br>
>>> have it start without a terminal, then it could call libnotify with<br>
>>> the name and description of the launch file that was started.<br>
>>><br>
>>> This would provide helpful feedback to the user as some launch files<br>
>>> take a while to actually start.<br>
>>><br>
>>> One issue I see is that libnotify/dbus seem designed to work on the<br>
>>> local machine and multi master will probably fail. One fix for this<br>
>>> might be to have roslaunch broadcast the Name and Description of<br>
>>> each launch file it starts on a topic. Another node could then<br>
>>> bridge this topic to libnotify.<br>
>>><br>
>>> tl;dr<br>
>>> launch file as a desktop icon, click it, too long to start.<br>
>>> What is the easiest way to fix?<br>
>>><br>
>>> --<br>
>>> Bill Morris <<a href="mailto:bill@iheartengineering.com" target="_blank">bill@iheartengineering.com</a>> I Heart Engineering<br>
>>> <a href="http://www.iheartengineering.com" target="_blank">http://www.iheartengineering.com</a><br>
>>> <3<br>
>>><br>
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>><br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> --<br>
>> Cedric Pradalier<br></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></blockquote></div><br clear="all"></div></div><div>Well the primary Groovy SIG feature freeze is tomorrow, but you can definitely start planning one for Hydromedusa.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div>
<br></div><div>-j<br></div></font></span></div>
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