[ros-users] [Discourse.ros.org] [MoveIt!] MoveIt! Maintainer Meeting Recap - May 29th, 2018

[Dave Coleman]

**Topics:**

- Progress releasing ROS Melodic

- GSoC - we got three students!

- Cartesian path planning in MoveIt!

- Python interfaces

- Adding/updating maintainer list

- Google C++ style 

- World MoveIt! Day



**Attendees:**



* Michael v4hn Grner

* Robert Haschke

* Isaac IY Saito

* Jorge Nicho

* Dave Coleman

* Ian McMahon

* Bence Magyar

* Gijs Vanderhoorn

* Mike Lautman

* Levi H. Armstrong

* Akiyoshi Ochiai 



**Summary**



Progress releasing ROS Melodic

* May 23rd first official release (v0.10.1), but its still in beta

* Two warnings remain

* Melodic is not stable

* OMPL has changed its version number and we need to adapt to it

* Still need to release Kinetic again, as well as Indigo and Lunar

* Need to announce in blog posts



Extending MoveIt! messages

* Update MotionPlanRequest with new constraints

* Joint trajectories

* Cartesian trajectories

* Will debate this further in a PR proposal



GSoC - we have three students!

* Quick updates on their status

* Overall going well



Cartesian path planning in MoveIt!

* Move Cartesian capabilities out of RobotState

* Perhaps convert to its own planning plugin

* Descartes integration - a MoveGroup capability - coming online

* Another new Cartesian plugin is being developed by an undisclosed team



Python interfaces

* Use boost:python to cleanup code

* Move python wrappers to each coresponding folder

* Change folder structure to follow best pratices of python



Adding/updating maintainer list

* Add Mike Lautman (PickNik)



Google C++ style 

* Continue using clang-tidy to modernize codebase

* When ROS style guideline does not address it, default to Google style



World MoveIt! Day

* Offical date is October 25th!

* Need to create blog post











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