20230719 Dev Meeting

General:

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

NOtes

• Extend MAV_COLLISION_ACTION enum to add MAV_COLLISION_ACTION_BRAKE #2019

  • Makes sense but needs clear definitions.
  • Still not clear if associated ArduPilot PR will go in. James added note that we can wait for more review before progressing.

• Mission feasiblity message and command - discord and historical pr

  • This approach considered reasonable. AO for Hamish to PR.

• 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?
    • Validator fine on 3.8 as long as fails gracefully.
    • Most cases really don't need to build on 3.7. But possibly related to NVidia issues.
    • James going to have another chat to Peter.

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

  • Its a bit frustrating - poster has been blocked but no viable alternative offered to move forward.
  • James going to talk to Leonard.

• Common - Opaque IDs for detecting plan changes #2012

  • FYI only - looks good.

• RADIO_LINK_STATS message #1920

  • Dronecan co-ordination - https://github.com/dronecan/DSDL/pull/33
  • This is now co-ordinated (Ollie and DroneCan PR can represent same data).
  • Plan to sit on it until someone wants to do an implementation

• Fix Wireshark dissector and add snapshot tests #817

  • Can we add this to review?
  • AO James to ask Peter.

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  • mavschema.xsd: add superseded tag #809 #809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

Did not discuss:

• 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

Attendees: Hamish, JamesP