ROS 2 Meeting Minutes 2024-02-15

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ROS 2 TSC Contribution Report 2024-02-15 - Google Docs.pdf (107.4 KB)

ROS 2 TSC Meeting Minutes 2024-02-15

  • Attendees

    • TSC Members
      • OSRF / Geoff Biggs
      • Community / Francisco Martin Rico
      • Robotis / Will Son
      • Intrinsic.ai / Chris Lalancette
      • Intrinsic.ai / Katherine Scott
      • Canonical / Mirko Ferrati
      • Community / David Lu!!
      • Picknik / Henning Kayser
      • Foxglove / Adrian Macneil
      • eProsima / Jaime Martin Losa
      • iRobot / Alberto Soragna
      • Apex.AI / Lyle Johnson, Michael Orlovlov
      • Bosch / Christian Henkel
      • Bosch / Christian Henkel
      • Sony / Tomoya Fujita
      • Toyota Research Institute / Ian McMahon
      • ROS Industrial / Matt Robinson
      • Amazon / Matt Hansen
      • Devcom / Jerry Towler
      • Wind River / Andrei Kholodnyi
    • TSC Observers
      • Bence Magyar
    • Absent (Please move to TSC Members Line):
      • Intel / Harold Lang
      • Microsoft / Lou Amadio
      • Zettascale / Angelo Corsaro
      • Community / Steve Macenski

  • Preliminaries

    • You should only have comment access to this document.
    • [Kat ][1 min] Please remember to fill out your contribution report at the bottom of this document prior to the meeting.
    • ROSCon Diversity Scholarships out today. Sponsorship in the next few weeks.

  • Old business

  • New business

  • Confidential Business

    • [STOP] – ALL NON-TSC MEMBERS MUST LEAVE THE HANGOUT
      • [Geoff][20] Discussion
      • [Mirko][20min] Discussion

  • Recurring business

    • Next ROS 2 distro release
      • rmw_zenoh_cpp
      • Jazzy
        • Working on some changes to the way python is found
          • Should make ROS 2 builds with venvs work better
        • Transition to Ubuntu 24.04 is continuing
          • Last meeting said transition Feb 5
            • We didn’t do this because Python 3.12 default still hasn’t landed
          • Transition now dependent on when that lands, with drop-dead date of March 8
          • Working on two major problems
            • uncrustify - new version isn’t totally compatible with old version
              • Working on making them as compatible as possible
              • But some downstream code is likely to have to change
            • pycodestyle is incompatible with flake8
              • Seems to be a bug in Ubuntu 24.04
              • We’ll open a bug about this shortly
        • Reminder that RMW freeze date is April 8th, overall freeze is April 15
    • Working groups [<=5 mins each]

      • [Bence] Control

        • Latest Humble sync issues breaking webots compilation, fixed in latest release to Humble
        • New concept for gripper controllers using JointState message
        • All CI now hosted in a single place, ros2_control_ci as reusable workflows
        • Discussions on robot_description strategies for Humble vs Rolling
        • Lots and lots of Gazebo (& Gz Classic) bugfixes and improvements
        • set_hardware_component_state rolled out Humble to Rolling
        • Discussions on std::variant in ros2_control interface handles
        • Windows support PRs coming in, beware! (robostack community)
        • generate_parameter_library for all controllers also in Humble
        • RHEL(8,9) and Debian(11,12) CI on PRs

      • [Martin Losa] Embedded

        • Farhang Naderi, Co-Founder & Chief Tech Officer at Caretta Robotics, will presented two exciting projects. The first combines PX4 Autopilot, ROS2, Pixhawk 6X, and Micro XRCE-DDS for precise drone positioning. The second uses Pixhawk, Raspberry Pi CM4, ROS2, and Micro XRCE-DDS to enable drones to track and follow objects in real-time. These projects showcase significant advancements in drone operations and interactions with their environment.
        • EWG Video

      • [Kayser] Manipulation

        • Applying as GSoC 2024 org - Projects Page
        • Preparing for Jazzy migration
          • Starting to phase out Gazebo Classic in tutorials and resources

      • [Woodall] Middleware

      • [Macenski] Navigation

      • [Andrei] Real-Time

        • REP2017
        • Working on RPI5 PREEMPT_RT

      • [Biggs] Client libraries

      • [Mirko] Security

        • The group discussed the PR for PKCS#11, and gave input to resolve the most recent points brought up by the maintainers.

      • [Soragna] Production

      • [Orlov] Rosbag2 and Tooling

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Sorry for missing, I had internet and other issues that I didn’t get all sorted until the meeting was essentially over. They’re digging up stuff around my building recently and there’s been sporatic spats without power / internet :frowning:

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