I think the question is more like "Should Berkely (or any other institution) have one repository for all the stacks it produces, even if there are inter-stack (or package) dependencies, or should it have one repository per stack?"

My suggestion (similar to the the answers.ros one) is to have one repository per stack, with possible sub-modules (if you're using git). In this case the ROS indexer should be able to crawl all the repositories that belong to an user, recognize which of them is a ROS stack, then update the software index accordingly.

On 16 August 2011 16:31, Jack O'Quin <jack.oquin@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 3:05 PM, Ibrahim Awwal
> Hi ROS users,
>
> We're considering/planning on switching to git/github for the Berkeley
> ROS package. What are the conventions on structure and such that people
> are using? With svn we have a url like this
> http://ros.berkeley.edu/svn/berkeley-ros-pkg/ with all our stuff, with
> git would it be preferrable to have one repo called berkeley-ros-pkg or
> separate repos for each stack and maybe link them together with
> submodules? What are other people doing that are using git? It seems
> like at least TUM is using separate repos per project on their git repo
> (which seems to be the much more sane route) but I was wondering if
> there was any requirement to have something called foo-ros-pkg
> somewhere. Thanks,

There is a Q&A on ROS answers about git:

 http://answers.ros.org/question/1278/can-a-single-git-repository-release-multiple-ros

Briefly, the answer was "one stack per git repo".

I don't know about any requirement for a foo-ros-pkg repo.
--
 joq
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