On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 12:09 PM, Tully Foote <tfoote@osrfoundation.org>wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> I'm happy to announce that with the upgrades to the ROS infrastructure,
> specifically REP 137, we can now provide a maintainer status for catkin
> based packages for Groovy [1] and Hydro [2].  If you browse these status
> pages you will see now not just the versions and build status, but also the
> maintainer and the maintenance status.
>

Will the maintenance status be shown on the wiki (stack/package
documentation) as well?


> This is part of our effort to make the development status of packages more
> easily discoverable to users.
>
> All packages are initialized to unknown and maintainers are asked to
> submit a pull request to state that they will maintain the package for this
> rosdistro.  Each successive rosdistro will request that maintainers
> resubmit pull requests to declare their intent to continue maintaining the
> package.  After most maintainers are filled in and the state of the system
> is determined we will put out a call for adoption for packages which do not
> have active maintainers.
>
> We have 4 supported maintenance levels:
> developed
> maintained
> unmaintained
> end-of-life
>
> More details the status definitions can be found in REP 137 [3]
>
> If you are a maintainer please submit a pull request to state the expected
> level of maintenance.  If you are not currently a maintainer please
> consider reviewing packages which you use or care about and consider
> volunteering to maintain them if there is a call for adoption.  Being a
> maintainer is not a large commitment to do significant development, it is
> simply to keep packages up to date and make the occasional release.
>
> To update maintainer status you need to submit a pull request to the
> rosdistro repo.  Some examples are included below.
>
> Tully
>
>
>
> [1] http://www.ros.org/debbuild/groovy.html
> [2] http://www.ros.org/debbuild/hydro.html
> [3] http://ros.org/reps/rep-0137.html
>
>
> Example Pull Requests:
> https://github.com/ros/rosdistro/pull/755
> https://github.com/ros/rosdistro/pull/753
> https://github.com/ros/rosdistro/pull/750
> https://github.com/ros/rosdistro/pull/744
>
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