I started a thread at ros-infrastructure/roswiki#134 to get things rolling - please add your thoughts there. Daniel. On 3 June 2015 at 17:08, Tully Foote wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 5:54 PM, Daniel Stonier via ros-users < > ros-users@lists.ros.org> wrote: > >> >> >> 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/WikiMacrohttps://github.com/ros-infrastructure/roswiki/issuess#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. >> > > That sounds like a great idea. If you could flesh it out a little more it > would be a great enhancement ticket to track for adding to the wiki. [1] It > might be an extension to the PackageHeader macro with an optional argument > for declaring it's LTS only or something like that. > > Tully > > > [1] https://github.com/ros-infrastructure/roswiki/issues > > >> >> Daniel. >> >> >> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 6:03 PM, William Woodall < >>> william@osrfoundation.org> 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/ >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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/