[ros-users] [Discourse.ros.org] [MoveIt!] MoveIt! Maintainer Meeting Recap - Nov 20th 2018

[Dave Coleman]

**Agenda**

* World MoveIt! Day takeaways

* Switching to a master branch

* Making bigger changes to the codebase

* Our next release target - ROS Noetic?

* General release notes - Isaac

* C++14

* Adding new maintainers

* MoveIt! Task Constructor



**Attendees**

* Michael v4hn Grner

* Robert Haschke

* Jorge Nicho

* Zack Kingston

* Will Baker

* Simon Schmeier

* Jon Binnery

* Michael Ferguson

* Dave Coleman

* Mike Lautman

* Andy McEvoy

* Nathan Brooks

* Henning Kayser 



**Summary** 



* World MoveIt! Day takeaways

  * See [stats](https://github.com/ros-planning/moveit.ros.org/pull/231)

* Our next release target - ROS Noetic?

  * Release our own debians: setup Buildbot?

    * Would require to add another ubuntu repo to users' system

    * Must always keep version number newer than ROS buildfarm

    * Overlay OSRF packages

    * Michael could spin up an image

    * Downstream users can't build on top of that version

  * Option: Build them on the OSRF farm

    * Modify bloom to put out "unstable/dev" packages

  * master branch is extra work load in some regards

  * master branch: compile against what?

  * has to compile on the last 2 ROS systems

* Drop Lunar from Docker / CI

  * Decision: turn off Docker for lunar ([fixed](https://hub.docker.com/r/moveit/moveit/~/settings/automated-builds/))

* Switching to a master branch

   * Overall consensus is yes

   * Undiscussed: when to branch from melodic-devel to master

* Making bigger changes to the codebase

   * C++14

   * Seems everyone is in favor

* Adding new maintainers & Reviewing PRs

  * Make stats more public

  * Tool to watch activity

  * Most people just slightly touch moveit

  * Most of the PRs people don't know how to address it

  * Auto-assign based on modified files?

  * Use labels: filter on subject?

  * Git hook: add hash tag?

  * Outcome: do further research and report back next month

* MoveIt! Task Constructor

  * Replacing current pick-place pipeline: will happen in future but not yet

  * Structure different type of queries

  * Can't load all the Planners all at once

  * Need to add tutorials, screenshot on website



Thanks everyone for attending!











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