ROS 2 TSC Meeting Minutes: 2019-10-17

ROS 2 TSC Meeting Minutes: 2019-10-17

  • Attendees
    • Southwest Research Institute, representing CCDC GVSC - Jerry Towler
    • Samsung Research America - Steve Macenski
    • ADLINK - Joe Speed
    • Amazon - Adam Duncan, Thomas Moulard, Aaron Blasdel
    • eProsima - Jaime Martin Losa
    • Toyota Research Institute - Toffee Albina
    • Bosch - Karsten Knese
    • Open Robotics - Brian Gerkey, Dirk Thomas, Tully Foote
    • Tier IV - Geoff Biggs
    • Intel - Matt Hansen
    • LG Electronics - Brian Shin
    • Microsoft - Sean Yen
    • Apex.AI - Dejan Pangercic
  • Old business
    • [Hansen] Follow up on MoveIt2 - There is some good news that Picknik has secured some funding to begin working on the port again, but there is still help needed. We at Intel are committed to contributing to the port, but would like a call to action from other TSC members to also commit some resources to helping.
      • Plan to meet and discuss at ROSCon
      • Hansen to start a discussion on Discourse looking for help.
    • [Speed] Edge AI WG status
      • Steve, Adam, Geoff, Tully, Joe wrote proposal. Will post on discourse next week to get input & solicit interest
    • [Duncan] Tooling WG status
      • Discuss later in this meeting
    • [Duncan] Development/Release framework
      • PR to REP in progress: https://github.com/ros-infrastructure/rep/pull/209
      • TSC and everyone invited to review and offer feedback
      • Elevator pitch: if a previously released package is building and testing successfully, then no developer bloom-type action should be required to automatically include it in a new “rolling” distro.
    • [Gerkey] In-person TSC informal gathering at ROSCon
      • Set for Oct 30th @ 1715-1815, location TBD (bar/lounge nearby workshop location, Joe is buying a round)
        • Gerkey to send out location and calendar invite before then
  • New business
    • [Hansen] I posted this a few days ago regarding ROS2 SLAM: http://discourse.ros.org/t/supporting-maintaining-slam-in-ros2-input-requested
      • I would like to hear more input from OSRF and other TSC members, please
      • TSC members to comment on thread
      • Hansen to lead decision process within Navigation WG to pick one implementation to focus on for development and support
    • [Hansen] What’s the status of the google groups / working group calendar? I’d really like to move the Nav2 WG to be using the google groups and calendar instead of my own personal one. Also is there a google docs area for meeting notes?
    • [Duncan] Welcome Aaron Blasdel: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaronblasdel/
      • Aaron is new Amazon TSC rep
    • [Moulard / Duncan] Present proposal for more explicit WG operating rules. Heavily inspired by Kubernetes governance model (where Kubernetes SIG → ROS 2 WG).
      • Planning to try it out in the new Tooling WG and iterate there, bringing back feedback on the process to TSC periodically
      • Some questions open about how to manage ownership of repos across WGs.
    • [Duncan] AWS RoboMaker Now Supports ROS 2 - D:
    • [Toffee] T-TR1 ROS 2 robot for 2020 Olympic Games Toyota Olympic Robots announcement
    • [Gerkey] Discuss ROS trademark usage guidelines
      • Draft from Open Robotics legal counsel now under review by TSC.
      • Deadline for posting: Dec 1st.
  • Recurring business

For a upcoming ROS 2 distro (as well syncs for already released ROS 2 distros) there is a GitHub project board, e.g. for Eloquent: https://github.com/orgs/ros2/projects/7. Referencing that project from the ticket (or if the ticket is in another org unit adding a note with the URL of the ticket to the board) is the currently used process.

@gerkey just for completeness: “Apex.AI - Dejan Pangercic” was also present in the meeting.

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we’re buying drinks Oct 30th and throwing TSC dinner party Nov 1st. I’ll send details and calendar invite.

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Thanks; I updated the attendee list.