I’m pleased to announce that the ROS 2 Rust Working Group is getting back into doing regular meetings! These will be held on the second Monday of every month, at 15:00 CEST time. You can see the schedule on the Open Source Robotics Foundation Community Events calendar.
We apologize, but we are having techincal difficulties with the room. As such, we have moved the room to https://meet.google.com/gmc-wodv-tqz for today.
Very sorry about that! Future meeting notices will have that feature!
A brief rundown on what was discussed:
Introduction to who the team leads are
Current state of the client library
Missing a few features before we are comfortable saying that everything can be written in Rust:
Actions
Parameters
Lifecycle Nodes
Timers
Logging integration with ROS 2
A reiteration that any and all contributions are welcome to the project!
Use cases are especially useful for us to know - at the moment we pick and choose what to work on by guesswork: “I think people are going to need XYZ at the moment”. If we get community feedback about features that are needed/wanted, and what sort of problems they are trying to solve, that helps guide us in what to tackle first.
The community is more than welcome to open issues about this. Additionally, if anyone sees any opportunities to improve the client library, feel free to open up a pull request!
The more people that we have working together on this, the faster the client library can get to a 100% usable state!
The next meeting will be on: 2023-05-08T13:00:00Z
Our current plan is to continue holding these meetings on the second Monday of every month. And everyone is welcome! Whether you are a Rust/ROS 2 expert or a beginner in both, we would love to see you!
Additionally, we have a room on Element/Matrix chat that people are welcome to join / chat on. That’s a good spot to hop on and say hello - I’ll try to respond when I see someone asking questions as soon as I can!