Hi everybody,

Here is a tentative REP-137 draft, which gives a rationale and a specification for rosdistro files, with the intent of formalizing what was not.

These files are used by the release process as well as the buildfarm. The mid-term goal is to ease binary package builds, especially by custom buildfarms.

You can find this draft REP here:

https://github.com/po1/rep/blob/rep137/rep-0137.rst

And the pull request is here:

https://github.com/ros-infrastructure/rep/pull/27

Please note that the REP still lacks some tiny bits here and there. Any good will is more than welcome to contribute.

Thanks,

Paul Mathieu