20231221 Dev Meeting

General:

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

Notes

• #2062 Proposed addition/clarification of units for EPH, EPV, Azimuth
  • Hamish to create a PR against XSD for scaling. We'll see how it goes. Done in https://github.com/ArduPilot/pymavlink/pull/894.
  • James follow up on the other scaling PR against XSD.
• #2047 Add support for illuminators
  • James broadly OK. Julian chasing down outstanding issues.

Below here is last week's stuff may need to be revisited

• #2063 Add additional support for parachute
  • Julian pointed out most of these things are in existing messages.
• #2055 development: add setter/getters for torque and thrust setpoints
  • Chase up Silvan and Leonard again?
• #2050 common.xml: Allow FLIGHT_INFORMATION times to be either since epoch or boot
  • Suggestion by Peter is to just update behaviour to match PX4. Live with horrible names.
  • AO Hamish W to make this so. - #2067 FLIGHT_INFORMATION - description to match PX4

We'd still like action on these:

• #544 Fix up enum generation
  • ? James passing to PeterB - we need a clear direction for next steps.
• 1946 Convrnience function(s?) blindly copy 16bytes, - even when less are provided... resulting in somehow corrupt packets.
  • Legitimate problem, but we have put enough on PeterB this week.
• generate WIP warnings on the use of WIP messages in C code #240 - get it in as "default off WIP test". That is useful for Beat.
  • Fixed up but stalled again.
  • Legitimate problem, but we have put enough on PeterB this week.

FYI - These went in:

• #2012 Common - Opaque IDs for detecting plan changes
  • This went in.
  • AO Hamish to document how it works. Went over briefly in meeting.

Attendees: Hamish, JulianO, JamesP, Simon Hancock (near end)