Should we have parallel planning only in MoveIt? (can’t use cartesian interpolator currently)
We don’t want to have code and feature redundancy, so can’t we just enable parallel planning in MTC level?
Joe: Add MTC as part of MoveIt? - Possibly not really an option right now, but should be discussed in the future
Henning: How about moving MTC’s solver interface into MoveIt only. We are lacking a consistent interface anyway (example: Cartesian Interpolator) and the solver is not really specific to MTC at all. The only concern is supporting MTC’s planner properties which should be solvable.
Extending MoveGroupInterface to specify controllers (Henning)
Have seen plenty of AI-assisted contributions lately, mostly low quality and broken
Some contributor’s accounts have already been deleted on GitHub
Discussion: Do we need to extend our Community Guidelines or Contribution Policy?
Require to mention AI-assisted content in PRs
Labeling suspicious contributions, and make it easier to reject or block users in case of spamming
Some users may be motivated to somehow game their way into the GSoC program, so hopefully this is only a temporary problem
Another concern is that AI-generated content may have copyright implications
This has been discussed in the TSC meetings as well, so maybe there will be a ROS-wide solution in the future
Conclusion: Raise awareness - MoveIt maintainers should keep an eye on this and discuss if we need to take action in follow-up meetings
GSoC 2023 (Henning)
proposal ranking deadline is today (Apr 27)
19 proposals
Two candidates ranked, primary mentors: Sebastian Castro and Andy Zelenak
Received plenty of very low-effort or unqualified proposals. We should try to engage candidates even more for online contributions, and make sure they follow Google’s proposal guide.
World MoveIt Day 2023 (Henning)
Date: June 8th
Main Theme: Python support
Competition with prize (PickNik is seeking sponsoring from hardware vendors)
Intention: open MoveIt up to Python and Machine Learning community
Brief Discussions:
Reach out to university labs directly and also advertise for GSoC 2024