On 7 May 2015 at 05:55, William Woodall via ros-users < ros-users@lists.ros.org> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > For everyone out there that has been working on the documentation for > Jade, first of all thanks! Second of all, I just wanted to let everyone > know I just updated the ROS distro versioned blocks on the wiki to accept > the `_and_newer` and the `_and_older` suffixes. This should make it easier > to have sections of your wiki pages that stay up to date version to > version, and should be generally more flexible. Please have a look at the > updated documentation: > > http://wiki.ros.org/WikiMacros#Version > Something that would be very useful for us would be to lock down the default landing page to a particular version. We've got quite a few packages we only have the resources to support/upgrade for the long term releases (e.g. indigo) and it's rather repetitive always having to click back from the latest release page (where we usually put a message saying it's not supported in this release) back to the indigo page. Daniel. > Thanks, > > On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 6:03 PM, William Woodall > wrote: > >> Hi guys, >> >> tl;dr: Jade beta is out! >> >> ---- >> >> I'm happy to announce we're now in the Jade Beta! We're a few days behind >> schedule, but thanks to the hard work of all our contributors we've now got >> all of desktop-full released into Jade and available on packages.ros.org. >> >> Even though we're a bit behind schedule, we would like to try and keep >> the original release date of May 23rd (also world turtle day [1] :D). That >> gives us just under 23 days until the release. We'll keep that date unless >> we run into a show stopper within desktop-full. >> >> So between now and then I would encourage everyone who is able to: >> >> - Install `ros-jade-desktop-full` on Ubuntu and test out packages you >> regularly use. >> - Testing on other platforms is also appreciated! >> - Try out any documentation that you can, including tutorials, >> package wiki pages, and generated code docs. >> - Continue releasing packages and fill out the gaps between Jade and >> Indigo where possible. >> >> If you find any issues while testing, please locate the issue tracker >> (usually on the corresponding wiki page for the package, e.g. >> wiki.ros.org/rviz) and report the issue there. >> >> Auditing documentation is more challenging just because there is so much >> of it and searching on the wiki does not always make it easy to find pages >> with distribution specific content. So to help with this, I've done some >> special searches locally on the wiki's web server and compiled a list of >> pages which _may_ need to be updated for Jade: >> >> https://github.com/ros/rosdistro/issues/8284 >> >> So if you have time, please look at that list, and do a spot check on any >> pages that you use or have used in the past. Many of the core documentation >> pages are absent from that list because I've compiled them separately in a >> GitHub issue here: >> >> https://github.com/ros/rosdistro/issues/6878 >> >> Finally, if you are trying to release a package for Jade and the >> dependencies are not there yet, please contact the maintainers or ask for >> help on ros-release@lists.ros.org. >> >> Thanks again to everyone who helped get the Jade beta out (mostly) on >> time. >> >> Cheers, >> >> P.S. Only ros-jade-desktop is available on armhf right now, we're waiting >> on an updated set of gazebo5 debs and then we'll have desktop-full on armhf >> as well. Also, armhf is Trusty only right now. >> >> P.S.S. If you are testing gazebo-ros integration, we are aware of an >> issue with the launch files and are tracking it here: >> >> https://github.com/ros-simulation/gazebo_ros_pkgs/issues/323 >> >> A work around is to install `libgazebo5-dev` manually. We hope to have a >> proper fix out soon. >> >> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Turtle_Day >> >> -- >> William Woodall >> ROS Development Team >> william@osrfoundation.org >> http://wjwwood.io/ >> > > > > -- > William Woodall > ROS Development Team > william@osrfoundation.org > http://wjwwood.io/ > > _______________________________________________ > ros-users mailing list > ros-users@lists.ros.org > http://lists.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users > > -- Phone : +82-10-5400-3296 (010-5400-3296) Home: http://snorriheim.dnsdojo.com/ Yujin Inno: http://inno.yujinrobot.com/