[robocup-humanoid] GameController revision

[Daniel Seifert]

Dear Maike and teams,

I would suggest to simply switch back to the SPL GameController
(https://github.com/bhuman/GameController) as the first step in this
process, and then do any bugfixes / extensions on top of that. Ideally
coordinating with them.

"Our" GameController is actually just a copy of the 2014 "SPL"
GameController (with updated team names and logos and a few
cherry-picked commits from upstream). So we have not moved apart from
the SPL GameController so much as we are lagging behind. Thomas Röfer
and the other developers always put effort into having the software
compatible with both leagues. Any changes we made for the
GameController were merged back to
https://github.com/bhuman/GameController, and there was (and
apparently still is) a compatibility mode
(`Rules.league.compatibilityToVersion7`) for the version of the
communication protocol that we used. (Still, it may be worth checking
out the latest communication protocol version, including the
requirement that teams use a common message for team communication,
with tools available for logging and evaluation / visualization). So
updating to the latest "SPL" version likely will "just work", with the
benefit of getting a number of bugfixes and new features right away.

Best regards

Daniel


On Sun, Sep 4, 2016 at 10:07 AM, <8paetzel at informatik.uni-hamburg.de> wrote:
>
> Dear Humanoid Teams,
>
> since we will likely need to make some changes in the GameController for next year anyway to adapt it to the new rules, we are planning on making a more general revision and fix known issues with the GameController. Currently, we are planning to do the following changes (apart from adapting to the new rules):
>
> - Take a look at the changes in the SPL original GameController repository and cherry-pick changes which are merged in our GameController to avoid that the two branches move more and more apart.
> - During the championship in Leipzig we realized a discrepancy between GameController time and real time on some Computers. We want to investigate this issue and fix, if possible, for next year.
>
> If you encountered other issues than those mentioned above or have other suggestions for changes in the GameController, please let me know as soon as possible. We cannot promise to include all suggestions, but we will try to fix at least all known bugs.
>
> Cheers,
> Maike (for the Humanoid League TC)
>
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