Dissemination

[traversaro]

I'll open this issue to track some useful subtask that I think can be useful for proper dissemination of gazebo_yarp_plugins (just a :

• [ ] Documentation :
  • [ ] List of plugins in "main" documentation (for example in readme) with link to complete description in Doxygen
  • [ ] Doxygen documentation of the sdf & yarp .ini parameters loaded by the plugins. This will require also to properly document the used wrappers in YARP.
  • [ ] Tutorials:
  • [ ] Complete the tutorial on adding gazebo_yarp_plugins to an existing URDF/SDF model (initial stub: https://github.com/robotology/gazebo_yarp_plugins/wiki/Embed-gazebo_yarp_plugins-in-a-SDF-model ). We could use the double pendulum model.
  • [ ] Tutorial on using the YARP/Gazebo synchronization using gazebo_yarp_clock, possibly using also step-by-step synchronized simulation that is a cool feature.
  • [ ] Update the design document ( https://github.com/robotology/gazebo_yarp_plugins/wiki/Design ) possible using materials from MESAS paper.
• [ ] Packaging:
  • [ ] OS X : Both Gazebo and Yarp can be installed using brew. We could right a brew formula for gazebo_yarp_plugins .
  • [ ] Debian/Ubuntu : Both Gazebo and Yarp are available in the form of .deb packages (both are not in the actual Debian repository for now). We could prepare a deb package for gazebo_yarp_plugins.
• [ ] After we do a "release" :
  • [ ] Add a link on "Interoperability" section of http://wiki.icub.org/yarpdoc/
  • [ ] Suggest to add a link in Gazebo documentation of supported interfaces, for example in http://gazebosim.org/wiki/Interfaces
  • [ ] Spam on social media accounts (and websites) of the european projects that fund the development (CoDyCo, WalkMan).
  • [ ] Post an announcement on related mailing lists (rc-hackers, yarp0-devel, gazebo-list)
  • [ ] Contact people that could be interested in simulating yarp-based robots (for example: people that have a Coman and don't have a simulation platform, people using Yarp on the Nao https://github.com/cbm/NaoYARP ).

Just a list of idea that nobody will probably have the time to complete, but feel free to add other suggestions.

[traversaro]

cc @EnricoMingo on some nice thing we could do before release. I guess the only essential thing is documentation.

[traversaro]

cc @hu-yue we are doing some of this for iCubHeidelberg01 integration week.

[traversaro]

Closing as this is is a "nice-to-have" list, but it is not an actual problem if any of this is not done.