I applaud you, the keepers of the code! Exciting times in the LinuxCNC world!
Ray --J. Ray Mitchell Jr. [email protected] (818)324-7573 "Normal people ... believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet." -- Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert comic strip On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 7:26 AM, Michael Haberler <[email protected]> wrote: > > We are pleased to announce the formation of the Machinekit project > [1][2][3]. > > Machinekit is an overhaul of the real-time and glue infrastructure which > supports LinuxCNC. Machinekit is intended to be broadly applicable to > real-time control applications. Non-CNC systems such as general automation > and robotics are potential target applications for Machinekit, as is more > traditional CNC machine control. Messaging API support to enable > distributed operation across a broad range of platforms including tablets, > traditional desktop machines, and embedded systems has progressed > considerably and shows first results [4][5][6]. > > Machinekit will be based on the unified-binary code from the start. The > intent is to adopt innovation at a rapid pace while remaining a stable > baseline, enable wider adoption by simplifying usage and the contribution > process, as well as providing the lowest cost realtime control application > supporting ubiquitous UI hardware. > > Active community involvement is a critical part of our vision for this > peer project so we are adopting the Collective Code Construction Contract > (C4) [7]. Our desire is to make it easy for anyone to contribute to the > project and to provide objective guidelines for the acceptance and merging > of changes. For an excellent discussion of the C4 contract rationale and > building a community around an open source project, see Chapter 6 of the > 0MQ guide [8]. > > Sincerely, > > The Machinekit team members: > > Michael Haberler > John Morris > Charles Steinkuehler > Kent Reed > Alexander Rössler > > Links: > > [1] Machinekit website: http://www.machinekit.io > [2] Machinekit blog: http://blog.machinekit.io > [3] Github repository: https://github.com/machinekit/machinekit > [4] Status update: > https://github.com/mhaberler/asciidoc-sandbox/wiki/statusupdate-032014 > [5] Android app and Gladevcp both controlling HAL remotely: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1z9Cw_1hqRg > [6] BeagleBone controlling 3D printer: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdMcdjUPyes > [7] Collective Code Construction Contract (C4): > http://rfc.zeromq.org/spec:22 > [8] The ØMQ Community: http://zguide.zeromq.org/page:chapter6 > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
