A possible question might be what we use as the default distro (on wiki or possibly anywhere else): the latest available distro, or the latest LTS? +1 to "default: LTS". With Long-Term Support system from Indigo that had been very much wanted (at least I strongly feel so; LTS and its end-date is one of the most FAQs users/potential users from industry esp. in Japan ask), I thought some (/ many) package maintainers would lean more toward focusing on LTS distros. Isaac On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 5:54 PM, Daniel Stonier via ros-users wrote: > > > On 7 May 2015 at 05:55, William Woodall via ros-users > wrote: >> >> Hi everyone, >> >> For everyone out there that has been working on the documentation for >> Jade, first of all thanks! Second of all, I just wanted to let everyone know >> I just updated the ROS distro versioned blocks on the wiki to accept the >> `_and_newer` and the `_and_older` suffixes. This should make it easier to >> have sections of your wiki pages that stay up to date version to version, >> and should be generally more flexible. Please have a look at the updated >> documentation: >> >> http://wiki.ros.org/WikiMacros#Version > > > Something that would be very useful for us would be to lock down the default > landing page to a particular version. We've got quite a few packages we only > have the resources to support/upgrade for the long term releases (e.g. > indigo) and it's rather repetitive always having to click back from the > latest release page (where we usually put a message saying it's not > supported in this release) back to the indigo page. > > Daniel. > > >> >> Thanks, >> >> On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 6:03 PM, William Woodall >> wrote: >>> >>> Hi guys, >>> >>> tl;dr: Jade beta is out! >>> >>> ---- >>> >>> I'm happy to announce we're now in the Jade Beta! We're a few days behind >>> schedule, but thanks to the hard work of all our contributors we've now got >>> all of desktop-full released into Jade and available on packages.ros.org. >>> >>> Even though we're a bit behind schedule, we would like to try and keep >>> the original release date of May 23rd (also world turtle day [1] :D). That >>> gives us just under 23 days until the release. We'll keep that date unless >>> we run into a show stopper within desktop-full. >>> >>> So between now and then I would encourage everyone who is able to: >>> >>> Install `ros-jade-desktop-full` on Ubuntu and test out packages you >>> regularly use. >>> >>> Testing on other platforms is also appreciated! >>> >>> Try out any documentation that you can, including tutorials, package wiki >>> pages, and generated code docs. >>> Continue releasing packages and fill out the gaps between Jade and Indigo >>> where possible. >>> >>> If you find any issues while testing, please locate the issue tracker >>> (usually on the corresponding wiki page for the package, e.g. >>> wiki.ros.org/rviz) and report the issue there. >>> >>> Auditing documentation is more challenging just because there is so much >>> of it and searching on the wiki does not always make it easy to find pages >>> with distribution specific content. So to help with this, I've done some >>> special searches locally on the wiki's web server and compiled a list of >>> pages which _may_ need to be updated for Jade: >>> >>> https://github.com/ros/rosdistro/issues/8284 >>> >>> So if you have time, please look at that list, and do a spot check on any >>> pages that you use or have used in the past. Many of the core documentation >>> pages are absent from that list because I've compiled them separately in a >>> GitHub issue here: >>> >>> https://github.com/ros/rosdistro/issues/6878 >>> >>> Finally, if you are trying to release a package for Jade and the >>> dependencies are not there yet, please contact the maintainers or ask for >>> help on ros-release@lists.ros.org. >>> >>> Thanks again to everyone who helped get the Jade beta out (mostly) on >>> time. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> P.S. Only ros-jade-desktop is available on armhf right now, we're waiting >>> on an updated set of gazebo5 debs and then we'll have desktop-full on armhf >>> as well. Also, armhf is Trusty only right now. >>> >>> P.S.S. If you are testing gazebo-ros integration, we are aware of an >>> issue with the launch files and are tracking it here: >>> >>> https://github.com/ros-simulation/gazebo_ros_pkgs/issues/323 >>> >>> A work around is to install `libgazebo5-dev` manually. We hope to have a >>> proper fix out soon. >>> >>> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Turtle_Day >>> >>> -- >>> William Woodall >>> ROS Development Team >>> william@osrfoundation.org >>> http://wjwwood.io/ >> >> >> >> >> -- >> William Woodall >> ROS Development Team >> william@osrfoundation.org >> http://wjwwood.io/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> ros-users mailing list >> ros-users@lists.ros.org >> http://lists.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users >> > > > > -- > Phone : +82-10-5400-3296 (010-5400-3296) > Home: http://snorriheim.dnsdojo.com/ > Yujin Inno: http://inno.yujinrobot.com/ > > > _______________________________________________ > ros-users mailing list > ros-users@lists.ros.org > http://lists.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users > _______________________________________________ ros-users mailing list ros-users@lists.ros.org http://lists.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users