Re: New versions and rodmap

On Nov 5, 2013, at 18:44 , Herman Bruyninckx <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, 6 Nov 2013, Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
> 
>> do you have some plan to release a orocos 2.7 soon? And kdl? 
>> 
>> in another mail Ruben commented about stable branch of kdl..
>>> AFAIK there is none currently. We probable could create a stable
>>> branch from the latest release tag.
>> 
>> do you know when?
>> 
> 
> This is not a direct answer to your question, but a related remark: I think
> it is time to organize a one-day face-to-face meeting with a handful of
> "experts" and discuss the Orocos and KDL roadmaps... Especially since there
> are two new kids on the block (or rather, they are almost there...) Markus'
> microblocs and Azamat's new hybrid dynammics solver (which will _not_ be a
> traditional Class library, but rather a microblocs application). In
> addition, there is the "model-driven engineering" evolution that should be
> consolidated, that is, with a minimum of the integration of not-so-new
> formal models for:
> - geometry: frames and kinematic chains
> - physical units
> 
> In my view, all of the above can (should!) be done in a way that does not
> compromise the ongoing Orocos RTT and KDL evolutions: they are
> _complements_, not replacements. But I do expect them to have an influence
> on how developers should _use_ RTT and KDL...
> 
> I can offer some travel support to participants with "to good to miss"
> contirbutions to such a developers meeting :-)

If it is possible to organize this meeting so that international developers could call/Skype in, then that would be very beneficial.

Cheers
S
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