20230705 Dev Meeting

General:

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

Needed James (absent) to move some of these along. Went through them briefly but few actions.

Agenda

• Drop support for Python 2 and low 3

  • Python 2 Tridge and PeterB in favour, where drop" is defined as at link.
  • Python 3.5,6,7 - what do we think? I'd like "Drop lowest version that is EOL unless it is hard to upgrade on our active deployment platform". Note that this is not the case - the only one in contention right now is Python 3.6 on Ubuntu 18.04, and that is easy to upgrade.

• common: Add new attitude target typmask touse YawRate, Pitch and Roll - #2013

• Common - Opaque IDs for detecting plan changes #2012

  • FYI

• RADIO_LINK_STATS message #1920

  • Dronecan co-ordination - https://github.com/dronecan/DSDL/pull/33
  • Next steps? Propose sit on it.

• Fix Wireshark dissector and add snapshot tests #817

  • Can we add this to review?

• Add Payload and Autonomy Microservice Support from Marine Dialect #1998

  • As a dialect it can be added, but will need ranges, less generic name than marine, and clear docs to indicate that it is a dialect
  • Seb didn't turn up to discuss. But we quite like aspects of the proposal.
  • AO Hamish to ping. - Done https://github.com/mavlink/mavlink/pull/1998#issuecomment-1601907570

• XSD - can we get these merged?

  • mavschema.xsd - max, min, increment on field #811

  • mavschema.xsd: add superseded tag #809 #809

  • XSD Schema - there can be at most 7 params #814

  • #821 XSD: MAV_CMD missionOnly attribute

  • Add altitudeOnly attribute #824 (part of MAV_CMD_DO_GO_AROUND - isAltitude attribute discussion #1994

  • AO on James again.

• autodiscover packages in setup.py #835

  • Need a better way to call python generator - from Pymavlink - FIXES that. Needs review

Attendees: Hamish, JulianO - appologies JamesP