ArduPilot EU Dev Call 2025-05-21

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UTC0706

Live ArduPilot 4.6.0 stable release tagging!
AP_Periph release maybe next week.


UTC0713

Merged!


UTC0714

Andrew, Peter On the one hand this dependency is more closely related to MAVProxy.

  • On the other, we prefer to have the MAVProxy dependencies very lean, to be installable in single-board computers.

George Could we have two install commands for MAVProxy, one for “lean” and one for “full”?


UTC0718

A Can we have DDS as a build option now?

  • Would be nice to have a separate function to check if the feature should be included.

Approved!


UTC0720

MergeOnCIPass!


UTC0722

A There’s danger of misusing the old parameter value.

  • We can leave the old parameter in place for reference and deprecate the bits that aren’t applicable anymore.

P Could we pre-arm check that the deprecated bits are set?


UTC0727

A Is it a sensor message? Or is the FC meant to emit it? It has a sensor ID.
P The author says it could be both.
A I don’t like MAVLink messages doubling both as FC messages to the GCS and as sensor messages to the FC.

  • Could we use a MAVLink extention instead?

P Old GCSs wouldn’t know that they are receiving different messages for different sources.

< Left comments >


P Should we start preventing people from updating from very old versions, where parameter conversion isn’t supported?

< Eh, not much urgency >

P Oh, and the parameters won’t be able to be reverted back to the odl version again.