HI Everyone,

We're approaching what we hope to mark as the ROS Hydro Medusa Beta.

Based on previous discussions on the mailing list we would like to plan to release ROS Hydro Medusa on July 29th. To do this we want to have 1 full month of staging meaning finalizing the Beta on June 29th the end of this week.

Thank you to everyone who has already released their packages into Hydro. We have almost 300 packages released into Hydro already. We would like to have coverage of desktop-full before the Beta is released at the end of this week.

My audit of the packages already released reveals 20 packages are left necessary to release into Hydro to complete desktop-full.

I'd like to call on the community to add their packages before the release so we can have as complete of an Beta as possible.

Of highest interest are the following packages which can be found inside the desktop-full groovy equivalents.

bullet

common_tutorials

compressed_depth_image_transport

compressed_image_transport

documentation

geometry_experimental (tf2*)

geometry_tutorials

laser_pipeline

navigation

navigation_tutorials

physics_ode

resource_retriever

robot_model_tutorials

robot_model_visualization

simulator_gazebo

slam_gmapping

srdf

stage

urdf_parser

visualization_tutorials

This list is pulled from diffing the groovy variants and the hydro packages so it is subject to some updating. Some of these packages may have reached EOL or have been functionally replaced. But if you're involved in any of these please try to get a release out this week.

If you'd like to discuss the release of a package, or if you are blocked on another package please start a discussion on the ros-release mailing list. ros-release@code.ros.org

Tully