ROS 2 TSC Meeting Minutes: 2019-03-21

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ROS TSC Meeting Notes March 21st, 2019

• Attendees:
  • Dirk, Brian G., Louise (Open Robotics)
  • Allison (TRI)
  • Brian S. (LGE)
  • Dejan (Apex.AI)
  • Karsten (Bosch)
  • Matt H. (Intel)
  • Rutvik, Adam (Amazon)
  • Victor (Acutronic)
  • Pyo (ROBOTIS)
• Old business:
  • [2 mins] [Brian G.] ROS trademark update
    • Specimen collection in progress
    • Waiting for a specific list from the lawyers
    • After that the TSC will come up with a usage policy
  • [2 min] [Dirk] DCO bot update
    • Now enabled for more repos
      • Starting to enforce Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO) for (some) ROS 2 repos
  • [10 min] [Brian G.] Elevator pitch
    • Draft from Brian G. based on prior TSC discussion circulated for comment
    • Slightly edited version received from Victor
    • Other comments? None during the meeting, please provide feedback by the end of next week
    • Next step: blending the feedback into a single document
    • Plan to send to designer for brochure layout by end of March
    • Proposed license: CC-BY-SA
  • [10 min] [Brian G.] New member vote recap and decision
    • Result: yes. Brian G. to contact newly admitted member and make announcement.
    • Side note: Follow up with a rule how many votes are required for a quorum
• New business:
  • [2 min] [Brian G.] TSC content in ROS 2 docs
    • https://github.com/ros2/ros2_documentation/pull/144
    • Please comment with any feedback on the PR
    • Proposal: adding company logos to the list of members
• Standing updates:
  • [15 min] Release planning - Dashing update:
    • Open Robotics:
      • Feature ticket: https://github.com/ros2/ros2/issues/607
        • Please add your commitments here!
      • Timeline: https://index.ros.org/doc/ros2/Releases/Release-Dashing-Diademata/
    • Acutronic
      • The first bullet item “Basic hardware models” is being finished
        • Some tooling available already, still early stage. More updates soon.
        • Community input is welcome.
      • https://github.com/AcutronicRobotics/HRIM
      • Working with PickNik on motion planning
        • Latest progress at http://github.com/acutronicrobotics/moveit2
    • Apex
      • Integration testing framework, currently integrating into ros2 org unit and splitting up the repository
    • Amazon
      • Pull requests for additional QoS policies, eProsima implementing them in FastRTPS
      • Pull requests for nightly sanitizer jobs
      • Work towards enhancing the performance test suite
      • Pull request with a design article for a threat model
    • LGE
      • Ongoing progress to generate the recipes using superflora
        • A proposal for a Superflore OE Recipe Generation Scheme
    • Bosch
      • First round of pull requests for diagnostics
      • Next task: ability to rosbag record service requests and responses
    • Consider a way to present the progress in a more condensed form.
  • Working groups:
    • [5 min] [Matt H] Navigation
      • Switching to lifecycle nodes
      • Navigation2 roadmap meta-ticket https://github.com/ros-planning/navigation2/issues/592
      • Lifecycle core changes - https://github.com/ros-planning/navigation2/issues/608
    • [5 min] [Rutvik] Security
      • PR for thread model article is out https://github.com/ros2/design/pull/218
      • Working on setting up the next working group meeting once it is merged to discuss with the rest of the group in more detail
    • [5 min] [Dejan] Real-time and safety
      • Not much progress to report
      • https://gitlab.com/AutowareAuto/AutowareAuto/issues/65
      • Migrated Velodyne driver to ROS 2 https://gitlab.com/AutowareAuto/AutowareAuto/issues/65#note_153106018
      • Proposal for first real-time meeting upcoming
    • [5 min] [Karsten] Embedded
      • Targeting to run rclcpp on a microcontroller
      • First reference implementation on Turtlebot2: https://github.com/microROS/micro-ROS_kobuki_demo
    • [2 min] [Víctor] Interest in a Machine Learning WG?
      • Machine learning algorithms with ROS 2 https://github.com/ros2/ros2/issues/607#issuecomment-474429616
      • Consensus: don’t start a WG on this topic yet.
    • [2 min] [Rutvik] It would be nice to have a central place listing all WGs and primary members
      • Create a page on https://index.ros.org/doc/ros2/ with the information
      • The page should provide links to additional information like meeting notes
      • Maybe group the information of TSC-based WGs in a Google Drive folder or some other place?
  • Other items:
    • [Dejan] Will waffle.io shutdown affect ROS 2 development?
      • We use a Waffle board, so we’ll need to pick something else. Decision pending.
    • [Dejan] ROS 2 Customer Stories takeaways?
      • Discussion ongoing via Discourse: ROS 2 Customer Stories Report
      • Talk about specific proposals in the next TSC meeting?