copper-project/copper-rs

Make a pass on standardizing messages

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#694 opened on Jan 21, 2026

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Description

It has been a while since we added new standard payloads and with the flight controller + external projects I think we can:

  1. Catalog "private" messages
  2. Select the ones that make sense to standardize (like pointclouds for lidars and co.)
  3. Discuss the formats with the community quickly to see if we don't miss something
  4. Move the task(s) to the new format and move the message to the payload subtree in the repo

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Research direction
Review the existing message definitions in the codebase, identify private messages, and propose which ones to standardize. Discuss with the community.
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rust
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backendapi
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