20230301 Dev Meeting

General:

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

Agenda

Only HamishW attended.

• Allocate range for ras-a and indicate next free range #1957

• Indicate preference for COMMAND_INT #1955 and Positional NAV command - test wording of scaling recommendation #1956

• New landing target messages TARGET_ABSOLUTE/RELATIVE #1943

  • Who else can we ping? @rishabsingh3003 not commented.
  • Better than what we have is general consensus. Some concern about implementation not happening since it is "complicated".
  • When signed off by the experts we'll let it move into development, but doesn't move across to common without a proper tested implementation.

• mavlink_msg_xxx_decode by mavgen_c does not handle extensions of message properly #684 - pymavlink bug fix

  • AO JamesP to see if we can get review from PeterB.

• message_definitions: add all_with_development.xml #1924

  • AO: JamesP to talk to PeterB to get movement on https://github.com/ArduPilot/pymavlink/pull/240

• Prearm command - what's the risk

  • accidentally disarming. So the command definition should specifically be "can only do from disarmed".
  • In very first use, motor attached to servo.

• COMPONENT METADATA: translation - AO JamesP to outline concerns and reasonable steps Beat or others might take to address them.

Attendees: Hamish