Dev Call March 29, 2021

Development Team
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Issues & Pull Request















Plane

Copter

Rover

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UTC2300 - https://github.com/ArduPilot/ardupilot/pull/15550

  • Multiple inclusion group fences
  • Autotests are on Rover
  • Each fence gets a group number. You must be inside at least one group
    • All current fences are group 0
    • So you can create a group 1 - and then you can be inside all of the group1 fence
  • MissionPlanner allows for setup of these using the mission plan editor
  • File format for saving fences?
    • Standard QGC110 waypoint filesā€¦
  • Testing and review?
  • Looking for testers and reviewersā€¦
    • Canā€™t just review it on the call
  • Copterā€™s backup fence
  • Plane return point?
    • Do we need to remember which group youā€™re in to decide which return points to use
  • Crossing between overlapping fences?
    • Non-overlapping fence points?
  • Will this break QGC?
    • Probably not
  • Interface with scurves?
    • Particularly with SCurves
  • Conversion code worksā€¦.

UTC2323 - https://github.com/ArduPilot/ardupilot/pull/15607

  • Should this be bracketed on specific autopilot?
  • LED built into board
  • Navigator Linux board
    • NavigatorLED

UTC2327 - https://github.com/ArduPilot/ardupilot/pull/15896

  • SCurve PR
  • CPU load was checked and was fine
  • Check all boards building or not
    • Proximity was removed from a bunch of small boards
      • Three boards not building
      • 2 skyvipers and omnibusv5-bdshot
        • Unsurprising on the Journey, but surprising on the v2450
  • Sub was tested
    • Splines were removed
    • Yaw behaviour selection is a little odd
  • Tridge will test quadplane in SITL this week
  • Holdup for 4.1
    • Randy would like ot merge this this week
      • Start beta testing of Rover and Copter early next week
      • Before dev conference starts?
      • Maybe this week?
    • MdB has some patches for next Plane heā€™d like in
    • Tridge also has some extra onesā€¦
    • EKF3 38km issue
    • Guided mode changes for Copter
    • Bugfixing hats on!
    • Willian will talk to Jacob about getting Sub into the same release

UTC2335 - https://github.com/ArduPilot/ardupilot/pull/16449/

  • Scripting bindings for PWM GPIO and analoguein
  • Multiple threads allocating channels in analoguein bad
  • More changes to scripting generatorā€¦.
  • merged!

UTC2342 - https://github.com/ArduPilot/ardupilot/pull/16746

  • Scripting bindings for options
  • Can be merged once mavlink commit is removed and CI passed
    • And a quick rename

UTC2347 - https://github.com/ArduPilot/ardupilot/pull/16939

  • Quick refactoring
  • Merged!

UTC2349 - https://github.com/ArduPilot/ardupilot/pull/16968

  • Fix constructor so you can pass in a frame
  • Should we assume a default frame?
    • No
  • Will conflict with SCurvesā€¦ā€¦
  • Randy thinks heā€™s spotted a terrain-related problem and pointed out somewhere that needs testing
  • merged!

UTC2356 - https://github.com/ArduPilot/ardupilot/pull/16971

  • Merged
  • Conflict

UTC2358 - https://github.com/ArduPilot/ardupilot/pull/16984/files

  • Merged
  • Make Copter interfaces look like Plane and rover in APIs

UTC0001 - https://github.com/ArduPilot/ardupilot/pull/16988

  • Enum-class for EFI type

UTC0003 - https://github.com/ArduPilot/ardupilot/pull/17004

  • NDEBUG to avoid assert issues
  • Reproducible builds are good and these stopped that
  • Assert calls were left in the code
    • Bad bad bad
    • This removes them

UTC0004 - https://github.com/ArduPilot/ardupilot/pull/17008

  • Would be nice to remove G2
  • Can be merged after CI

UTC0013 - https://github.com/ArduPilot/ardupilot/pull/17009/files

  • Can be merged after comment and CI

UTC0014 - https://github.com/ArduPilot/ardupilot/pull/17020

  • More information on transition
  • Can be merged after Peter Hall is ready

UTC0017 - https://github.com/ArduPilot/ardupilot/pull/17024

  • Merged
  • Nullptr deref fix in battery at startup

UTC0017 - https://github.com/ArduPilot/ardupilot/pull/17035

  • Remove indirection on RGBLed
  • Merged!

UTC0018 - https://github.com/ArduPilot/ardupilot/issues/14460

  • Plane update
  • Many things built up for 4.0 point release
  • Once we start beta we have trouble doing more stable releases
  • Another 4.0 with small fixes?
  • Several things markedā€¦.
  • EKF compass failure handling
    • As in 4.0 doesnā€™t handle compass just disappearing
  • 32kB patch is probably worthwhile
  • H743 storage watchdog issueā€¦
  • Push out a stable release without a beta if we need to?
    • Can only do a single beta at a time
  • Randyā€™s not enthusiastic about a point releaseā€¦
    • It would be tridge and amilcarā€¦
  • Backup-compass patch is a good one to apply in your own stable branch if redundancy is important to you
  • Might be another Plane 4.0 given thereā€™s some significant Plane 4.1 features to do

UTC0030 - Copter and Rover updates

  • Beta isnā€™t a hard cutoff for features
  • Scurves for Rover?
    • Probably not for 4.1

UTC0032 - GSoC update

  • Waiting for applications to come in
  • Applications allowed today
    • No students have applied yet
  • If you want to mentor, poke tridge

UTC0035 - conference update

  • Good line-up of speakers
  • Discord channel for conference schedule organisation

UTC0041 - close

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