Formerly, the rule was simple: introduce new features in a new distro, so existing users are not impacted. With Indigo LTS, I found myself wanting to support new hardware that was not available when Indigo was initially released. An example is the popular Velodyne VLP-16 LIDAR. Since I believe I can add that model with minimal disruption to existing users, I've decided to make an exception to the old rule, which made more sense when there was a new ROS distro every six months. --- [Visit Topic](http://discourse.ros.org/t/maintainer-best-practices-handling-changes-through-ros-releases/771/5) or reply to this email to respond. If you do not want to receive messages from ros-users please use the unsubscribe link below. If you use the one above, you will stop all of ros-users from receiving updates. ______________________________________________________________________________ ros-users mailing list ros-users@lists.ros.org http://lists.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users Unsubscribe: