Arguably, ROS Crawl should be a fork of rosindex. However, key
features that I don't believe rosindex has are
1) Tracking the build farm status of the packages. Note that octomap
currently has 1.6.8 in public and 1.6.9 in shadow fixed[1] for indigo.
rosindex shows that it is version 1.6.8 but doesn't reflect the build
status (as far as I can see)[2]. ROS Crawl shows that octomap in
indigo is currently "waiting for re-release". One of the main (and
trickiest) features is parsing the pattern of boxes on the build farm
status page[1] and translating it into something short and
human-readable.

2) Introducing high level structure to the lists of packages based on
what repository its in, what organization owns that repository, and
who the maintainers are.

[1] http://www.ros.org/debbuild/indigo.html?q=octomap&s=2
[2] http://rosindex.github.io/p/octomap/github-OctoMap-octomap/#indigo
[3] http://www.metrorobots.com/ros_crawl/OctoMap.html

On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 1:40 AM, G.A. vd. Hoorn - 3ME via ros-release
<ros-release@lists.ros.org> wrote:
> On 15-1-2016 8:39, Austin Hendrix wrote:
>>
>> rosindex is also awesome, but credit for it actually goes to Jonathan
>> Bohren.
>
>
> You're right of course. Haven't had my morning coffee ..
>
> Sorry Jonathan.
>
>
> Gijs
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