Name Title Attendance
Chris Gill Professor, Computer Science & Engineering, Washington University St. Louis ✓
David (DJ) James Tech Director for Software, DRS Land Systems ✓
Andrew Job Founder and CEO, Plotlogic X
Adam Mitz OpenDDS Product Lead and Principal Software Engineer, Object Computing ✓
Matt Mueller Enterprise Operations Branch Head, United States Navy ✓
Marc Neeley Director of Architecture, Object Computing ✓
Jason Schindler Principal Software Engineer, Object Computing ✓
Johnny Willemsen CTO, Remedy IT ✓
Justin Wilson Principal Software Engineer, Object Computing ✓
Jen Wiese OSS Community Engagement Manager, Object Computing; Meeting Scribe ✓

The Meeting Was Led By Adam Mitz (AM)

Agenda

  • Welcome & Introductions
  • Updates Since Last Meeting
  • Project Mailing Lists
  • Foundation Sponsorships
  • Review of Roadmap from June Meeting
  • New Roadmap Detail
  • Open Discussion / Q & As
  • Agenda for Next Meeting

Welcome & Introductions (AM)

  • Welcome new member
    • Chris Gill - Professor, Computer Science & Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, MO

Updates Since Last Meeting (AM)

Project Mailing Lists (AM)

  • We are working on phasing out the mailing lists hosted on SourceForge
  • Options under consideration:
    • GitHub Discussions
    • 3rd-party hosted list (gaggle.email)
    • OCI-hosted list (investigating if this is possible)
    • Web-based chat such as Gittr (Slack-like)
  • TAB members: Which option would you prefer? Pros/cons?
    • GitHub Discussions initially sounds like it makes the most sense and a good plan
    • Could look also at ACM, IEEE, OMG

Foundation Sponsorships (JW)

Review of Roadmap from June Meeting (AM)

  • 3.x series - quarterly releases
    • Changes needed for projects
    • Performance and scalability
    • GitHub Actions CI, test coverage
    • Incremental XTypes/IDL4 enhancements
  • 4.0 - high-level
    • Make easier to develop and maintain (includes new developers)
    • Improve design, especially for test-ability
    • Dependencies "rebase" (OS/compiler/libs)
    • Removing some transport/discovery options, other features

New Roadmap Detail (AM)

  • In development
    • XTypes Dynamic Data
      • Participants that don't have IDL-generated code can receive data from any DataWriter.
      • Reflection-style API provided for dynamic access to data.
  • Features for consideration, regardless of 3.x/4.0 (in no particular order)
    • DDS-RPC
    • IDL4 extended structs
    • XTypes: @optional, @must_understand, @external, others?
    • RTPS Discovery: DCPSTopic Built-in Topic
    • RTPS 2.4/2.5 extensions (Gap Extended, Group Coherent)
  • Version 4.0 proposals
    • RTPS as core and default (but not only) Discovery and Transport
      • Provide options that are functionally equivalent to InfoRepo Discovery (RtpsRelay+), tcp transport (RTPS-over-tcp), shmem transport
    • Modern compiler required (perhaps GCC 5, VS 2017, Clang 3.4)
    • Revisit repository structure
      • Move Bench, Modeling SDK, others (TBD) to separate repos
    • Use the IDL-to-C++11 mapping only, including for the DCPS PSM/API
    • ACE version 7.x only, no TAO at runtime (only TAO_IDL_FE)
    • Monitoring library refresh
    • FACE Transport Services (2.1): drop or replace with a 3.x impl
    • CMake for configuration and build

Open Discussion / Q & As (all)

  • ROS2, DDS-RPC, real time embedded systems
  • XTypes Dynamic Data - excited to see this

Agenda for Next Meeting (all)

  • XRCE
  • Migrating to C++11
    • Potential challenge for user - cause them to stay on version 3
    • Default to have other mappings be available

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