# ROS 2 TSC Meeting Minutes: 2019-03-21

**URL:** <https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-2-tsc-meeting-minutes-2019-03-21/8494>\
**Category:** ROS General\
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**Created:** [March 27, 2019, 9:03pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-2-tsc-meeting-minutes-2019-03-21/8494 "2019-03-27T21:03:52Z")\
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# ROS TSC Meeting Notes March 21st, 2019

- **Attendees** :
  - Dirk, Brian G., Louise (Open Robotics)
  - Allison (TRI)
  - Brian S. (LGE)
  - Dejan (Apex.AI)
  - Karsten (Bosch)
  - Matt H. (Intel)
  - Rutvik, Adam (Amazon)
  - Victor (Acutronic)
  - Pyo (ROBOTIS)

- **Old business** :
  - [2 mins] [Brian G.] ROS trademark update
    - Specimen collection in progress
    - Waiting for a specific list from the lawyers
    - After that the TSC will come up with a usage policy

  - [2 min] [Dirk] DCO bot update
    - Now enabled for more repos
      - [Starting to enforce Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO) for (some) ROS 2 repos - #7 by dirk-thomas - ROS General - Open Robotics Discourse](http://discourse.ros.org/t/starting-to-enforce-developer-certificate-of-origin-dco-for-some-ros-2-repos/7420/7)

  - [10 min] [Brian G.] Elevator pitch
    - Draft from Brian G. based on prior TSC discussion circulated for comment
    - Slightly edited version received from Victor
    - Other comments? None during the meeting, please provide feedback by the end of next week
    - Next step: blending the feedback into a single document
    - Plan to send to designer for brochure layout by end of March
    - Proposed license: CC-BY-SA

  - [10 min] [Brian G.] New member vote recap and decision
    - Result: yes. Brian G. to contact newly admitted member and make announcement.
    - Side note: Follow up with a rule how many votes are required for a quorum

- **New business** :
  - [2 min] [Brian G.] TSC content in ROS 2 docs
    - [Add TSC section by gerkey · Pull Request #144 · ros2/ros2\_documentation · GitHub](https://github.com/ros2/ros2_documentation/pull/144)
    - Please comment with any feedback on the PR
    - Proposal: adding company logos to the list of members

- **Standing updates** :
  - [15 min] Release planning - Dashing update:
    - Open Robotics:
      - Feature ticket: [ROS 2 Dashing Diademata · Issue #607 · ros2/ros2 · GitHub](https://github.com/ros2/ros2/issues/607)
        - Please add your commitments here!

      - Timeline: [https://index.ros.org/doc/ros2/Releases/Release-Dashing-Diademata/](https://index.ros.org/doc/ros2/Releases/Release-Dashing-Diademata/)

    - Acutronic
      - The first bullet item “Basic hardware models” is being finished
        - Some tooling available already, still early stage. More updates soon.
        - Community input is welcome.

      - [GitHub - AcutronicRobotics/HRIM: An information model for robot hardware. Facilitates interoperability across modules from different robot manufacturers. Built around ROS 2.0](https://github.com/AcutronicRobotics/HRIM)
      - Working with PickNik on motion planning
        - Latest progress at [GitHub - AcutronicRobotics/moveit2: The MoveIt 2 Motion Planning Framework for ROS 2.0](http://github.com/acutronicrobotics/moveit2)

    - Apex
      - Integration testing framework, currently integrating into ros2 org unit and splitting up the repository

    - Amazon
      - Pull requests for additional QoS policies, eProsima implementing them in FastRTPS
      - Pull requests for nightly sanitizer jobs
      - Work towards enhancing the performance test suite
      - Pull request with a design article for a threat model

    - LGE
      - Ongoing progress to generate the recipes using superflora
        - [A proposal for a Superflore OE Recipe Generation Scheme - OpenEmbedded - Open Robotics Discourse](http://discourse.ros.org/t/a-proposal-for-a-superflore-oe-recipe-generation-scheme/8401)

    - Bosch
      - First round of pull requests for diagnostics
      - Next task: ability to rosbag record service requests and responses

    - Consider a way to present the progress in a more condensed form.

  - **Working groups** :
    - [5 min] [Matt H] Navigation
      - Switching to lifecycle nodes
      - Navigation2 roadmap meta-ticket [Eloquent Features · Issue #592 · ros-navigation/navigation2 · GitHub](https://github.com/ros-planning/navigation2/issues/592)
      - Lifecycle core changes - [Upstream lifecycle changes · Issue #608 · ros-navigation/navigation2 · GitHub](https://github.com/ros-planning/navigation2/issues/608)

    - [5 min] [Rutvik] Security
      - PR for thread model article is out [https://github.com/ros2/design/pull/218](https://github.com/ros2/design/pull/218)
      - Working on setting up the next working group meeting once it is merged to discuss with the rest of the group in more detail

    - [5 min] [Dejan] Real-time and safety
      - Not much progress to report
      - [https://gitlab.com/AutowareAuto/AutowareAuto/issues/65](https://gitlab.com/AutowareAuto/AutowareAuto/issues/65)
      - Migrated Velodyne driver to ROS 2 [https://gitlab.com/AutowareAuto/AutowareAuto/issues/65#note\_153106018](https://gitlab.com/AutowareAuto/AutowareAuto/issues/65#note_153106018)
      - Proposal for first real-time meeting upcoming

    - [5 min] [Karsten] Embedded
      - Targeting to run rclcpp on a microcontroller
      - First reference implementation on Turtlebot2: [GitHub - micro-ROS/micro-ROS\_kobuki\_demo: Provides a demo of micro-ROS based on a Kobuki and an Olimex STM32-E407 board.](https://github.com/microROS/micro-ROS_kobuki_demo)

    - [2 min] [Víctor] Interest in a Machine Learning WG?
      - Machine learning algorithms with ROS 2 [ROS 2 Dashing Diademata · Issue #607 · ros2/ros2 · GitHub](https://github.com/ros2/ros2/issues/607#issuecomment-474429616)
      - Consensus: don’t start a WG on this topic yet.

    - [2 min] [Rutvik] It would be nice to have a central place listing all WGs and primary members
      - Create a page on [https://index.ros.org/doc/ros2/](https://index.ros.org/doc/ros2) with the information
      - The page should provide links to additional information like meeting notes
      - Maybe group the information of TSC-based WGs in a Google Drive folder or some other place?

  - **Other items** :
    - [Dejan] Will [waffle.io](http://waffle.io) shutdown affect ROS 2 development?
      - We use a Waffle board, so we’ll need to pick something else. Decision pending.

    - [Dejan] ROS 2 Customer Stories takeaways?
      - Discussion ongoing via Discourse: [ROS 2 Customer Stories Report - ROS General - Open Robotics Discourse](http://discourse.ros.org/t/ros-2-customer-stories-report/8158)
      - Talk about specific proposals in the next TSC meeting?