Current status of FreeRTPS?

Next Generation ROS
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I’m evaluating the availability of communication between FreeRTPS and ROS2 beta1.

I tried to make the native-posix version of FreeRTPS communicate with the ROS2 on FastRTPS. But it seems that the native-posix sample(e.g. talker_no_rosidl) won’t be able to communicate with the ROS2(e.g. listener_best_effort).

Is there anyone who can make FreeRTPS communicate with ROS2 or knows which features to be developed?
It seems that the talker_no_rosidl is able to add its messages to the internal history of FastRTPS. But the upper layers won’t retrieve the messages.

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Greetings! Thanks for your interest in the project. Development of FreeRTPS has been paused for a while. Current development efforts are using FastRTPS and RTI Connext.

At some point it would be to resume development of a microcontroller-friendly middleware option, but at the moment we (OSRF) are not spending time on it. Of course, this is all open-source, so if you have time and energy to spend on FreeRTPS, it’s certainly there for the taking. It would need a significant amount of effort, though. Cheers!