20190515 Dev Meeting

Agenda

General:

• Update from relevant previous calls
• Tagged: issues, PR.

• Proposal to change Dronecode SDK to MAVLink SDK

Notes

Call 1

Discussed the following issues

• MAVLink SDK RFC
  • Approved by all present to rename and move into MAVLink. JonasV to proceed.
• 1134 Feature request: Mission changed broadcast + 1136 common: add mission changed broadcast
  • Makes sense. Approved for merging in as WIP
• 1133 Proposal for Improving User-fiendliness of Component Handling
  • Lots of discussion.
  • Agree in principle, but next step is to prototype.
  • Ollie and JulianO to take offline. May need work to do lightweight version of MAVLink FTP protocol.
  • Julian to chase Gus about repurposing camera messages or new messages.
• 1132 Geofence breach status
  • JamesP to verify what (if anything) ArduPilot doing re breaches and the imported enum.
• 1130 Deprecate DO_MOUNT_CONTROL_QUAT
  • Can be deprecated.
• 1135 Document signs for DO_MOUNT_CONTROL
  • Big discussion. Current signs are wrong/inconsistent across messages, but this message is already in use.
  • QGC does signs correct way and no special handling for this message. Julian to check what APM does.
  • Number of options raised - new message, new protocol etc. New message probably safest and most likely to be adopted. New protocol would be better architecture, but uptake time is slow.
  • Julian to do further evaluation.
  • Lorenz and JamesP to respond to following:
    • 1125 Add ISBD_LINK_STATUS in common
    • 1101 mavlink link status

AI:

See above!

Attendees

HamishW, JamesP, JonasV, JulianO, OlliW, Lorenz, Stone