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List:       ros-users
Subject:    [ros-users] SIG Mailing List Visibility
From:       marcus.liebhardt () yujinrobot ! com (Marcus Liebhardt)
Date:       2013-02-27 6:45:49
Message-ID: CAG32t-FHtk4hc3CENJutRP-wQfDaAHQisoJhmv2GpkS--aQp0Q () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 4:16 AM, Tully Foote <tfoote at willowgarage.com>wrote:

> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 5:02 PM, Marcus Liebhardt <
> marcus.liebhardt at yujinrobot.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 3:50 AM, Tully Foote <tfoote at willowgarage.com>wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi Everyone,
> > > 
> > > People have made requests to make our SIGs easier to find.
> > > 
> > > We've added a wiki macro to be able to embed views of the Google Groups
> > > used for SIG mailing lists into the Wiki.  Documentation of how to do so is
> > > posted on the WIkiMacros page [1] I have demoed it on the Embedded SIG page
> > > as well.
> > > 
> > 
> > Nice! Thanks Tully!
> > 
> > I would like to add a suggestion:
> > As far as I understood, SIGs have been introduced as planning groups
> > focusing on development in a certain area for a specific release. However,
> > some areas are not only important for one release, but also for continuous
> > development (e.g. manipulation: see fuerte/Planning/Manipulation,
> > groovy/Planning/MobileManipulation).
> > 
> > Hence, I'd like to propose to decouple the SIGs from the releases and
> > promote them as developer groups focusing on specific topics, e.g. drivers,
> > embedded, manipulation etc.
> > Each SIG could then decide, which newly developed features they want to
> > push into a specific release. Some SIGs are already working this way, e.g.
> > multimaster: http://www.ros.org/wiki<http://www.ros.org/wiki/sig/Multimaster>
> > /fuerte/Planning/Multimaster, \
> > http://www.ros.org/wiki<http://www.ros.org/wiki/sig/Multimaster>/groovy/Planning/Multimaster
> >  and http://www.ros.org/wiki/sig/Multimaster.
> > 
> > Actually, the new landing page can by understood in a way, which
> > implements my proposed change already. So, it might be only a matter of
> > adding a small overview section to describe the purpose of the SIGs.
> > 
> 
> Due to the repeating nature of the SIG's we have updated the
> recommendations already as you suggested to not scope the SIGs to just one
> development cycle.  If you could add that small overview section that would
> be very helpful.
> 

Done. Everybody, please feel free to add missing information and change the
wording, if dissatisfied.

@SIG coordinators and members: Please add your SIG to the active list [1],
if you find yours missing. Thank you!


Marcus

[1] http://www.ros.org/wiki/sig#Active_SIGs


> 
> 
> > 
> > And last, but not least, we should promote them better, e.g. highlight
> > them on http://www.ros.org/wiki/Get%20Involved (currently nested inside
> > here:
> > http://www.ros.org/wiki/Get%20Involved#Developer-related_Mailing_Lists).
> > 
> 
> That's a good idea.  I've also updated the Get Involved page to reference
> the SIGs by name and gave a link to the landing page.
> 
> Tully
> 
> 
> 
> > What does the community think about that?
> > 
> > 
> > Marcus
> > 
> > 
> > > 
> > > If you are active in a SIG please help by improving the sig landing page
> > > [2[ by making it more complete. It's now linked from the homepage.
> > > 
> > > Tully
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > [1] http://www.ros.org/wiki/WikiMacros#GoogleGroups
> > > [2] http://www.ros.org/wiki/sig
> > > 
> > > 
> > > --
> > > Tully Foote
> > > tfoote at willowgarage.com
> > > (650) 475-2827
> > > 
> > > _______________________________________________
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> > > ros-users at code.ros.org
> > > https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > --
> > Marcus Liebhardt
> > Control Engineer
> > Yujin Robot
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> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> --
> Tully Foote
> tfoote at willowgarage.com
> (650) 475-2827
> 
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