Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: "Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda" <l...@alaxarxa.net>

* Package name    : orocos-rtt
  Version         : 2.8.0
  Upstream Author : Orocos Developers <orocos-...@lists.mech.kuleuven.be>
* URL             : http://www.orocos.org/
* License         : GPL + runtime exception
  Programming Lang: C++
  Description     : Orocos Real-Time Toolkit

The Orocos Real-Time Toolkit (RTT) is not an application
in itself, but it provides the infrastructure and the
functionalities to build robotics applications in C++. The
emphasis is on real-time, online interactive and
component based applications.

- why is this package useful/relevant? 

It's an important package in the robotics world. It's a
useful framework to build robotics components.

- is it a dependency for another package? 

Another packages in the orocos toolbox. You cannot have the 
complete orocos toolbox if you don't have it.

- do you use it? 

Yes, we use it at the lab where I work.

- if there are other packages providing similar functionality, how does it 
compare?

ROS is another framework, and it's also in the todo list.

- how do you plan to maintain it? inside a packaging team?

Inside debian-science team. I have done a preliminary work in:

http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/debian-science/packages/orocos/rtt.git/

- are you looking for co-maintainers? do you need a sponsor?

Yes, both. Any help will be welcome. It's a complex package.


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