API review

Proposer: John Hsu

Present at review:

• List reviewers

Question / concerns / comments

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Meeting agenda

• if possible mimic command line api from pr2_mechanism_control's mech.py

  • gazebo_model spawn robot_description [current options]
    gazebo_model kill pr2_model
    gazebo_model list (returns model names in gazebo)

  • spawning robots with non-unique name errors out with return value 1
  • move spawning/killing models functionalities into a gazebo plugin, advertise as a ros service call.
  • deal with spawning duplicate model names more gracefully.

  • remove dump-to-file option from service and make a separate binary urdf2gazebo since it's mostly used in debug mode.

  • document namespace usage better (artifically injecting namespaces in ros plugin handles)

Conclusion

Package status change mark change manifest)

• Action items that need to be taken.

• Major issues that need to be resolved