tf2 release needs

[Tully Foote]

Hi Everyone, 

Sorry that this sig has gone dormant for so long.  I think that the needs for tf2 have now grown enough that it's time to push tf2 out of experimental for hydro.  

I'd like to start out and get a sense of what nees to be done.  The Hydro cycle is kind of compressed, but there should be enough time to make this happen. 

Outstanding features of significant value:

- action based subscription to a set of transforms, minimally represented.  

  This has been a request of systems like the web interface.  

- tf tree republishing with data forwarding and rewriting

  This is super important for multi robot support.  

  

- convert tf to use tf2 under the hood.  

  This will provide by far the best backwards compatibility, and easiest system wide deployment.  

Beyond that I belive the core functionality of tf2 is basically there.  

Adam mentioned that he has put together a scene graph like interface for a broadcaster, that might be good to integrate.  

Does anyone have other things they would like to integrate. 

Tully

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[Julius Kammerl]

Hi all,

On 02/04/2013 05:53 PM, Tully Foote wrote:

Outstanding features of significant value:

- action based subscription to a set of transforms, minimally represented.  

  This has been a request of systems like the web interface.  

This feature has been already implemented as a separate node, but we should integrate this feature into tf2 I think.
https://github.com/RobotWebTools/tf2_web_republisher
 
Best,
Julius