The wiki page was simply pretty outdated.
I have updated the ROS/Roadmap wiki page with current information:
http://wiki.ros.org/ROS/Roadmap

Please feel free to discuss any further information which would be useful on that page.

- Dirk


On 08.11.2013 21:38, Daniel Stonier wrote:
>
> I've always struggled to locate the following information every time I go searching:
>
>   * When are the next rosdistro releases due?
>   * What platforms are they going to be running on?
>   * What underlying dependency shifts are looming (e.g. python3)?
>
>
> The first thing I do is google 'ros roadmap'. I just watched a colleague go looking for the same information and also googled those exact same keywords. Probably others do also.
>
> What they get you at #1 is http://wiki.ros.org/ROS/Roadmap which doesn't provide recent or new information, but is now information about a legacy process that is not marked as legacy - confusing. And
> then you have to really start digging to answer the questions above.
>
> The information can be found from the ros main page (http://wiki.ros.org/) under 'Distributions' which isn't entirely obvious. Important pages being:
>
>   * http://wiki.ros.org/Distributions
>   * http://wiki.ros.org/Distributions/Timeline
>   * http://www.ros.org/reps/rep-0003.html (which could do with an update for indigo/j-turtle)
>
>
> To make it more visible, can we:
>
>   * Forward wiki.ros.org/ROS/Roadmap <http://wiki.ros.org/ROS/Roadmap> -> wiki.ros.org/Roadmap <http://wiki.ros.org/Roadmap>
>   * Add links for the above to that page?
>
> Cheers,
> Daniel/Yujin.
>
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