# Status of actions in ROS2

**URL:** <https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/status-of-actions-in-ros2/5765>\
**Category:** ROS General\
**Tags:** ros2\
**Created:** [August 16, 2018, 10:23pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/status-of-actions-in-ros2/5765 "2018-08-16T22:23:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ryann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Ryann](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/Ryann)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2018, 10:23pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/status-of-actions-in-ros2/5765/1 "2018-08-16T22:23:42Z")

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I’m trying to migrate [turtlebot3\_example](https://github.com/ROBOTIS-GIT/turtlebot3/tree/ros2/turtlebot3_example) from ROS to ROS2. It lists actionlib as a dependency. From [this](https://github.com/ros2/design/pull/183) thread it looks like there has been some initial work on actions in ROS2. But it doesn’t look like a repo has been started.

Does anyone know what the status of actions are in ROS2?

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**Author:** ![gbiggs](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.openrobotics.org/gbiggs/32/30361_2.png) [@gbiggs](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/gbiggs)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2018, 2:51am UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/status-of-actions-in-ros2/5765/2 "2018-08-20T02:51:44Z")

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There are a few of us trying to get going on actions in ROS2. It’s blocking the new navstack work as well so we need to get it done. The design pages pull request is here:

[https://github.com/ros2/design/pull/183](https://github.com/ros2/design/pull/183)

Many of us are resource-constrained for implementation, though. If you have time to help out implementing prototypes, I think it would be very welcome.