Regarding the deprecation of lidar_centerpoint_tvm

[knzo25]

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I would like to add the community if there are any active members using the lidar_centerpoint_tvm package.
Here in TIER IV we only use the cuda version of centerpoint and are migrating toward new models. For these new models, there are no plans to make tvm development, and we currently lack maintainers for this packate.

For that reason I would like to propose a "deprecated" state period, after which said package is deleted. Of course, depending on what the community at large things about this

[knzo25]

@kminoda @scepter914

[scepter914]

I agree that lidar_centerpoint_tvm is deprecated state for now.
If some developers want to continue to use, then we can ask them to be maintainers.

[kminoda]

Agreed. Thank you for the proposal.

[kminoda]

Regarding the process, how about something like this?

• Bring this up in the next S/P WG
• Wait until 6/28 for disagreements, and if no objection arises, we move on to the deprecation of the packages

[kminoda]

@xmfcx @mitsudome-r Hi, would you briefly check this proposal? We are not quite sure if those packages are valuable enough to continuously maintain for now.

[xmfcx]

@kminoda @knzo25

I've never heard of anyone using this package. We can remove it.
If anyone complains, we can revert the commit and bring it back.

But please create issues to track these tasks, don't link this discussion from those PRs.

Issues should be linked from PRs and the Issue can link to this discussion.

https://autowarefoundation.github.io/autoware-documentation/main/support/support-guidelines/#github-discussions

[kminoda]

I would also like to make lidar_apollo_segmentation_tvm deprecated as well.

[kminoda]

Let us delete this package as well

[xmfcx]

Please create issues to track these tasks, don't link this discussion from those PRs.

Issues should be linked from PRs and the Issue can link to this discussion.

https://autowarefoundation.github.io/autoware-documentation/main/support/support-guidelines/#github-discussions

[xmfcx]

You have created PRs to remove the packages and in those PRs, you added links to this discussion.

But because discussions were not designed for issue management and tracking, they don't have backlinks to the PRs.

So we cannot navigate from this discussion to the PRs unless you add the links manually.

Instead, please create an issue to track and add the link to the issue here.

[kminoda]

Sorry I missed this. Let me create an issue now

[xmfcx]

• Deprecation of lidar_apollo_instance_segmentation_tvm autoware.universe#8175