20201028 Dev Meeting

Agenda

General:

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

Notes

• MAVlink Governance Policy (discussion doc)

  • Lorenz has being trying to act more in spirit of the doc - tagging James, encouraging more complete solutions etc.
  • Action on Lorenz to clarify wording around generator tooling and industry engagement.
  • General agreement on concept of "experimental" xml (or xml folder) for co-development of proposed standards. Ideally granular so can be picked up by dialects and standard.xml when needed.
  • Action to evaluate current use of WIP in prep for moving to this.
    • AO Julian to verify what WIP is supported in MAVSDK and PX4.
    • AO JamesP to confirm no impact of WIP removal on ArduPilot.
  • Aim is to move forward with intent of governance.

• common: Add 'Inclusion Group' to fence for 'OR' fences #1510

  • General feeling that making all inclusion fences into OR is better, but need to evaluate risks.
  • DONE AO Hamish raise with devs

• common: add MAV_CMD to process custom actions on a waypoint #1516

  • Discussion around intent. In summary more work needs to be done to clarify how the system handles failure, notification, waiting vs fire and forget. Using process ids.
  • Nuno to revisit

• component_information: fix parameter.schema.json array type #1519

  • James has not really engaged yet. Was concerned it appeared out of nowhere. Hamish notes that yes it did, but it is still being evolved, and is starting off based on metadata from both ArduPilot and PX4.
  • DONE AO Hamish to let Michael have more context.

• Adding storage name to storage info message. #1520

  • Issues now addressed. Check and merge.

• add pseudo oblique function to 206 CAM_TRIGG_DIST - 1508

  • AO Hamish : Notify use new command.

Not discussed:

• NAV_CONTROLLER_OUTPUT: add airspeed setpoint field
• Introduce image groups to allow for correlating images with surveys #1500
• File-based protocols for params, missions, etc - Next steps Lorenz?
• common: minor cleanup regarding scaled param5/param6 #1446 - is there a compromise?
• Specific case - COMMAND_ACK extension fields WIP: https://mavlink.io/en/messages/common.html#COMMAND_ACK

Attendees: HamishW, JamesP, JulianO, LorenzM, Nuno Marques, Michael Oborne, Philip Rowse, Curious Alien