ROS 2 TSC Meeting Minutes: 2020-08-20

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ROS 2 TSC Meeting Agenda 2020-08-20

  • Attendees

    • Lyle Johnson, Apex.AI
    • Jaime Martin Losa, eProsima
    • Lokesh Kumar Goel, LG Electronics
    • Aaron Blasdel, AWS RoboMaker
    • Nick Fragale, Rover Robotics
    • Dave Coleman, PickNik
    • Brian Gerkey, Chris Lalancette, Dirk Thomas, Geoff Biggs, Louise Poubel, Tully Foote, Open Robotics
    • Kyle Fazzari, Canonical
    • Joe Speed, ADLINK
    • Harold Yang, Intel
    • Steve Macenski, Samsung Research
    • Sean Yen, Microsoft
    • Karsten Knese, Bosch
    • Will Son, ROBOTIS
    • Jerry Towler, SwRI, representing GVSC
    • Jilada Eccleston, Tier IV

  • Preliminaries

    • [Gerkey][2 mins] Introduce Jilada Eccleston, new rep from Tier IV

  • Old business

  • New business

    • [Gerkey][5 mins] Review and briefly discuss proposed code of conduct.
    • [Blasdel][5 mins] Brief announcement of open sourced github-contribution-report-generator in ros-tooling
      • Example yaml workflows that we use to generate some automatic emails to our oncall about the status of our RoboMaker contributions
      • How would it make the most sense for the TSC as a whole to leverage this script? (some options to discuss)
        • Have reports generated centrally at an OSRF owned location
          • Ensures that reports are apples to apples comparisons
          • Can have a single clickthrough link in these notes instead of a massive text dump
          • TSC members would need to keep their author list upto date.
        • Add a “text dump” option to the open sourced tool and keep selve serve and at the end of these meeting notes
        • (Current) TSC members can use but have to wrestle the html in to a bulleted list at the end of the meeting notes
      • Feedback:
        • The Discourse notifications onto github are annoying for developer flows. We can look at posting it in another location to keep the detailed content. Or hide it inside a pdf.
        • Autoware links it to a separate doc from the minutes.
    • [Geoff 2 mins] Announce Autoware Foundation decision to make cyclonedds the default RMW for ROS 2 within their consortium
    • The TSC would like to have a process for selecting a default middleware
      • We’d like to delegate to the Middleware Working Group
      • We’d like them to define a process for selecting a default rmw for the next release, including evaluation criteria, and deadlines.
      • Request to Middleware Working Group: Plan document end of September, executable process by end of October, find a decision by the end of November.
        • Brian to work with William
          • Also need to get MW WG reporting to the TSC

  • Recurring business

    • Next ROS 2 distro release
      • [Lalancette][5 mins] Updates on Rolling & Galactic
        • Due to the existing of Rolling Galactic is going to have a new timeline, from the other past releases.
        • A new roadmap is expected before the next meeting
    • Working groups [5 mins each]

TSC Member Contribution Reporting

ROS 2 TSC Contribution Self-Report 2020-08-20.pdf (106.4 KB)

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Just want to say thanks - the new Contribution Report is great for insight into what is going on in ROS2!

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