PX4 Dev Call: June 5th, 2019

Hi All,

Here is the Agenda for June 5th:

  • Reminder: Dev Summit: June 20-21, Zurich, Switzerland
  • Release v1.9 changelog
  • Releasev1.9.1 bugfixes
  • Next release: How to ship on time? How to reduce stalled PRs?
  • Ongoing refactoring work
  • Board deprecations before next release

More topics might be added based on the Devcall list on Github or by commenting here.

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Meeting notes:

  • Reminder: Dev Summit: June 20-21, Zurich, Switzerland
    • Schedule to be released this week
  • 1.9
  • 1.9.1
  • Test team
    • Deltaquad is crashed, convergence is the only VTOL
    • Need to close performance issues
    • Need to setup structure and automation
  • 1.10:
    • 1.9 was delayed 3 month from Jan roadmap webinar announcement
    • How to ship on time?
    • How to reduce stalled PRs?
    • We will keep half a year release cycle - okay - most users do upgrade once a year or once every two years
    • Current workload: 0.5 person working on integration, 20 ppl on features - need more bandwidth on integration/triage
    • Still shoot for 1.10 release in Sept
      • End of July, feature freeze
      • Core maintenance team block out Aug for integration
      • How to use GitHub tools (milestones?) to track - Ramon {@rroche}
    • Roadmap is general strategy/direction/priorities/focus, things get in ad-hoc
    • How to enforce feature lockdown?
      • Shall we branch off a release branch after feature freeze, then just do patches?
    • Master should always be in flying state
  • 2.0
    • When we have hardware in the market that is ethernet enabled
  • Ongoing refactoring work
    • Define workflow: squash or rebase
    • Requirements:
      • Need to be able to incrementally review.
      • Need to have every commit building and working for git bisecting.
      • Need to be able to have a history that explains the changes, gives context.
      • Downstream users need to be able to cherry-pick.
    • Possible solution by Daniel:
      • no rebasing and force pushing once reviewed
      • Review using incremental fixes
      • Once the changes are good and reviewed -> squash
    • Provide guidance to contributors?
    • Perhaps a spec for how to do a commit in master
      • Daniel create a wiki for basic process {@dagar}
    • Try out a couple of PRs and build a knowledge base around this
  • Board deprecations before next release
    • [Ran out of time to discuss - postpone to next dev-call]
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