# ROS 2 TSC Meeting Minutes: 2021-9-16

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# ROS 2 TSC Meeting Minutes: 2021-09-16

[ROS2TSCContributionReport2021-09-16.pdf](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/uploads/short-url/bPjd1EgBJORdan4rHTqDgOUhGUA.pdf) (163.2 KB)

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# Actions Items

- Note that the next TSC meeting is being moved to 2021-10-28T15:00:00Z to acomodate ROS World.
- Please join us at ROS World and submit a lightning talk video.
- [Add your Humble roadmap items to the master roadmap.](https://docs.ros.org/en/rolling/Roadmap.html)
- Community representative election: please recommend potential representatives, especially those from underrepresented groups.
- The October meeting does not have a speaker. Please make a recomendation.

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- Attendees
  - Andrei Kholodnyi, Wind River
  - Open Robotics – Kat Scott, Tully Foote, Audrow Nash, Louise Poubel, Chris Lalancette, Geoff Biggs
  - Samsung Research - Steve Macenski
  - Bosch - Ralph Lange
  - Apex.AI - Sumanth Nirmal
  - ADLINK - Joe Speed
  - AWS - Emerson Knapp, Aaron Blasdel
  - Canonical | Jeremie Deray (artivis)
  - Microsoft - Lou Amadio
  - LG Electronics - Herb Kuta, Hadi Tabatabaee
  - Tomoya Fujita - Sony
  - PickNik - Dave Coleman, Joe Schornak
  - Alberto Soragna - iRobot
  - Jaime Martin Losa - eProsima
  - Jerry Towler - SwRI, representing GVSC
  - Will Son - ROBOTIS

- Preliminaries
  - [Kat][1 min] Please remember to fill out your contribution report at the bottom of this document prior to the meeting.
  - [Kat|1min] Community Representative Election Starts 9/24
  - [Kat|1min] New BOSCH representative Ralph Lange replaces Karsten
  - [Kat|1min] RMW Report Update

- Old business
  - [Kat|1min] ROS Industrial Membership

- New business
  - [Kat][2min] October TSC meeting conflicts with ROS World.
    - Proposal: move meeting to 10/28 at the same time.
    - No objections

  - [Kat][1min] ROS World Update [ROS World 2021](https://roscon.ros.org/2021/)
    - Lightning Talk Call posted (only 2 weeks left)
    - Program announced and registration open

  - [Kat/Steve][3 min] Discuss: shorten WG updates to encourage longer / more discussion.
    - Trial – New business is 15 minutes longer for next meeting. [PASSED]

  - [Joe Speed][2 min] Join us at Indy Autonomous Challenge Oct 23rd
    - [indyautonomouschallenge.com](https://www.indyautonomouschallenge.com)

  - [Joe Speed][3 min] open source SOAFEE and development platform for automotive, robotics, industrial K
    - [soafee.io](https://soafee.io/)
    - [adlinktech.com/en/soafee](https://www.adlinktech.com/en/soafee) development platform for SOAFEE
    - [Computer Weekly - Volkswagen Signs Up To Arm Software Defined Car Standard](http://computerweekly.com/news/252506725/Volkswagen-signs-up-to-Arm-based-software-defined-car-standard)
    - [Electronics Weekly - SOAFEE Development for Automotive Functional Safety](http://electronicsweekly.com/news/design/arm-soafee-web-native-development-automotive-functional-safety-2021-09/)
    - [Venturebeat - Arm Launches Hardware Platforms for Software Defined Cars](http://venturebeat.com/2021/09/15/arm-launches-hardware-platforms-for-software-defined-cars/)
    - [Forbes - SOAFEE New Standard Software Framework For Automotive](http://forbes.com/sites/samabuelsamid/2021/09/15/arm-releases-soafee-new-standard-software-framework-for-automotive/)
    - [siliconangle - Architecture Will Bring Cloud Native Capabilities Automotive Apps](http://siliconangle.com/2021/09/15/arms-newest-reference-architecture-will-bring-cloud-native-capabilities-automotive-apps/)
    - [ZDnet - Arm Lays the Groundwork for the Software Defined Vehicle](http://zdnet.com/article/arm-lays-the-groundwork-for-the-software-defined-vehicle/)
    - [Tom’s Hardware - ADLINK Launches Miniature 80-core Platform](http://tomshardware.com/news/adlink-launches-miniature-80-core-platform)

  - [Kat][10 min] Metrics Report (DELAYED UNTIL TO OCTOBER)
  - [[Hadi T. (LG)][20 min] SVL Simulator + Nav 2 Presentation ](https://drive.google.com/file/d/13TXaxloyPWB5XQzOzZRMXs7r78OZxO6A/view?usp=sharing)
  - [Dave][3min+] PickNik Video
  - [Audrow][1 min] [www.sensethinkact.com](http://www.sensethinkact.com) podcast just put out the 2nd episode with Dave. Please watch, subscribe, and share. Feedback and suggestions are welcome.

- Recurring business
  - Next ROS 2 distro release
    - Humble Default DDS provider
      - [Default DDS provider template | TSC-RMW-Reports](https://osrf.github.io/TSC-RMW-Reports/humble/dds_provider_question_template.html)
      - Template provided to ADLINK and eProsima on August 31
      - First draft of response due back to Open Robotics on September 20
      - Final response due on October 4
      - Open Robotics will do editing, etc. and deliver report to TSC on October 12, for discussion at the October 21 TSC meeting

    - Humble Roadmap items
      - [Roadmap — ROS 2 Documentation: Rolling documentation](https://docs.ros.org/en/rolling/Roadmap.html)
        - System debug tool - In Progress
          - [GitHub - ros2/ros\_network\_viz](https://github.com/ros2/ros_network_viz/)

        - rosdoc2 Python API support - In Progress
          - [https://github.com/ros-infrastructure/rosdoc2/pull/28](https://github.com/ros-infrastructure/rosdoc2/pull/28)

        - rosdoc2 inter-package linking - Not started
        - Upload C++ API documentation - In progress
          - [https://github.com/ros2/rcl/pull/932](https://github.com/ros2/rcl/pull/932)
          - [Include rmw\_event\_t instead of forward declaring it by hidmic · Pull Request #933 · ros2/rcl · GitHub](https://github.com/ros2/rcl/pull/933)
          - [Fix up errors in doxygen documentation. by clalancette · Pull Request #311 · ros2/rmw · GitHub](https://github.com/ros2/rmw/pull/311)
          - [Fix up documentation build for rmw when using rosdoc2 by hidmic · Pull Request #313 · ros2/rmw · GitHub](https://github.com/ros2/rmw/pull/313)
          - [Fix up rmw\_dds\_common documentation when using rosdoc2 by hidmic · Pull Request #54 · ros2/rmw\_dds\_common · GitHub](https://github.com/ros2/rmw_dds_common/pull/54)
          - [Update the documentation to be more consistent. by clalancette · Pull Request #331 · ros2/rcutils · GitHub](https://github.com/ros2/rcutils/pull/331)
          - [Stop double-defining structs. by clalancette · Pull Request #333 · ros2/rcutils · GitHub](https://github.com/ros2/rcutils/pull/333)
          - [Fixing up documentation build when using rosdoc2 by wjwwood · Pull Request #344 · ros2/rcutils · GitHub](https://github.com/ros2/rcutils/pull/344)
          - [Include `rcppmath` utilities in docs/FEATURES.md by aprotyas · Pull Request #136 · ros2/rcpputils · GitHub](https://github.com/ros2/rcpputils/pull/136)
          - [Improve documentation of utilities in docs/FEATURES.md by aprotyas · Pull Request #137 · ros2/rcpputils · GitHub](https://github.com/ros2/rcpputils/pull/137)
          - [Improve `rcppmath` Doxygen documentation by aprotyas · Pull Request #138 · ros2/rcpputils · GitHub](https://github.com/ros2/rcpputils/pull/138)
          - [Fix API documentation for clean `rosdoc2` build by aprotyas · Pull Request #139 · ros2/rcpputils · GitHub](https://github.com/ros2/rcpputils/pull/139)
          - [Make thread safety macro C++ standards compliant by aprotyas · Pull Request #141 · ros2/rcpputils · GitHub](https://github.com/ros2/rcpputils/pull/141)
          - [`rcpputils::fs`: Fix doxygen parameter identifier by aprotyas · Pull Request #142 · ros2/rcpputils · GitHub](https://github.com/ros2/rcpputils/pull/142)
          - [Add Doxyfile to rcl\_logging\_interface package. by hidmic · Pull Request #80 · ros2/rcl\_logging · GitHub](https://github.com/ros2/rcl_logging/pull/80)

        - Improve service and action reliability - Not started
        - Improve RViz2 Stability - In Progress
          - [Removed some memory leaks in rviz\_rendering and rviz\_rendering\_tests by ahcorde · Pull Request #710 · ros2/rviz · GitHub](https://github.com/ros2/rviz/pull/710)
          - [Fix potencial leak / seg fault by ahcorde · Pull Request #726 · ros2/rviz · GitHub](https://github.com/ros2/rviz/pull/726)
          - [Fix missing "X" icon in panel close button by rebecca-butler · Pull Request #731 · ros2/rviz · GitHub](https://github.com/ros2/rviz/pull/731)
          - [Update window close icon by rebecca-butler · Pull Request #734 · ros2/rviz · GitHub](https://github.com/ros2/rviz/pull/734)
          - [Fix path message orientation error by rebecca-butler · Pull Request #736 · ros2/rviz · GitHub](https://github.com/ros2/rviz/pull/736)
          - [Fix memory leaks in dialog handling by ahcorde · Pull Request #742 · ros2/rviz · GitHub](https://github.com/ros2/rviz/pull/742)
          - [Efficiently handle 3-bytes pixel formats by ahcorde · Pull Request #743 · ros2/rviz · GitHub](https://github.com/ros2/rviz/pull/743)
          - [Robot: Report mesh loading issues by ahcorde · Pull Request #744 · ros2/rviz · GitHub](https://github.com/ros2/rviz/pull/744)
          - [Update displays\_panel.cpp by ahcorde · Pull Request #745 · ros2/rviz · GitHub](https://github.com/ros2/rviz/pull/745)

        - Default middleware selection - In Progress
        - Report on Zenoh as an RMW - Not started
          - Zenoh ROS 2 DDS bridge bloomed for Rolling

        - Overlay fixes - In Progress
        - Revamp Launch Testing - In Progress
          - [https://github.com/ros2/launch/pull/528](https://github.com/ros2/launch/pull/528)

  - Working groups [\<=5 mins each]
    - [Bence] Control

    - [Speed] Edge AI

    - [Martin Losa] Embedded

    - [Coleman] Manipulation

    - [Woodall] Middleware

    - [Macenski] Navigation

    - [Andrei Kholodnyi] Real-time

    - [Biggs] Rust

    - [Biggs] Safety

    - [Deray] Security

    - [Blasdel/Knapp] Tooling

    - [Knapp] WebTools

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