From: Jordi <mu...@gm...> - 2006-06-27 12:45:55
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Something I overlooked in the last email. Microsoft people talked a lot about how excited the robotics community was with their technology. Both Microsoft's project and P/S/G will be sucessful only if they are supported by robotics community. On this regard, there's something we have overlooked: the P/S/G webpage. I think that the webpage must be revamped. Or another page must be done elsewhere. See details below. Nowadays the webpage of the P/S/G is logically focused on this project. Luckyly there is a mention to "third parties applications" (Microsoft terminology) in http://playerstage.sourceforge.net/index.php?src=contrib Just one page for them. Also there is no "code developed for P/S/G" page. This page can be very interesting, "follow the black line problem" implementations for instance can go here. A lot of people using P/S/G have developed code for their own projects that is actually opensource but there's no place to contribute it. And a lot of people using P/S/G can work must faster using those previously developed examples. I see three main areas for a new revamped page: - P/S/G - Developer's additions that are not in the P/S/G CVS (but may go into it some day) I think that a CVS can be set up for these developers so all the code can be together and sincronized with P/S/G - Code developed using P/S/G I think that Microsoft will do or have already done something like this. And it's a intelligent step IMHO. -- Jordi Polo |
From: Mirko B. <mir...@ie...> - 2006-06-27 14:03:29
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Il giorno 27/giu/06, alle ore 14:45, Jordi ha scritto: > I see three main areas for a new revamped page: > > - P/S/G > - Developer's additions that are not in the P/S/G CVS (but may go > into it some day) I think that a CVS can be set up for these > developers so all the code can be together and sincronized with P/S/G > - Code developed using P/S/G I strongly agree, if the project has been so successful to gather a good number of users and developers around it, and to create an 'ecosystem' of extra libs and utils, these deserve to be pointed out and heavily publicized (as a mean to highlight how good is the p/s project itself) I admit that, after searching through the internet and asking friends, colleagues and professors about their preferred/most used/ recommended robotics toolkit, I ended up with p/s also because of the huge following; that is, not having the time/possibility/etc to field test all the tools, simulators, etc I found out during my search, surely the simple, clear yet powerful design of the suite was the winning point, but the fact that many important labs and serious robotics researchers used it as their platform of choice definitely convinced me to adopt it. And, as time goes on and I discover (thanks to the ML and 'third party add-ons' page) how marvellous projects/plugins/etc are built on top of it, I'm even more convinced that it was the best way to go; now, if these extras (additional sw and huge community) could be made even more evident, I think it could turn out as a nice plus on the long term. (I'm also speaking about stuff like ARDev, pv3d, live distros with p/ s built in, etc etc ...) maybe a revamped and refreshed list of labs and users currently adopting p/s could help, you know, it's not so immediate for people not browsing through the users mailing list to see that it's probably the no.1 robotics toolkit in the world ;-) Mirko Bordignon - University of Padova, Italy mirko[dot]bordignon[at]ieee[dot]org |
From: Brian G. <br...@ge...> - 2006-07-05 18:21:41
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A good idea. I added a feature request so that we don't forget about it: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php? func=detail&aid=1517697&group_id=42445&atid=433167 brian. On Jun 27, 2006, at 5:45 AM, Jordi wrote: > > Something I overlooked in the last email. > Microsoft people talked a lot about how excited the robotics > community was with their technology. > Both Microsoft's project and P/S/G will be sucessful only if > they are supported by robotics community. > > On this regard, there's something we have overlooked: the P/S/G > webpage. > > I think that the webpage must be revamped. Or another page must be > done elsewhere. See details below. > > Nowadays the webpage of the P/S/G is logically focused on this > project. > > Luckyly there is a mention to "third parties > applications" (Microsoft terminology) in http:// > playerstage.sourceforge.net/index.php?src=contrib > Just one page for them. > > Also there is no "code developed for P/S/G" page. > This page can be very interesting, "follow the black line problem" > implementations for instance can go here. > A lot of people using P/S/G have developed code for their own > projects that is actually opensource but there's no place to > contribute it. And a lot of people using P/S/G can work must faster > using those previously developed examples. > > > I see three main areas for a new revamped page: > > - P/S/G > - Developer's additions that are not in the P/S/G CVS (but may go > into it some day) I think that a CVS can be set up for these > developers so all the code can be together and sincronized with P/S/G > - Code developed using P/S/G > > I think that Microsoft will do or have already done something like > this. And it's a intelligent step IMHO. > > > -- > Jordi Polo > > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, > security? > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your > job easier > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache > Geronimo > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel? > cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642______________________________ > _________________ > Playerstage-users mailing list > Pla...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/playerstage-users |