On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 11:24 AM, Daniel Stonier via ros-release <
ros-release@lists.ros.org> wrote:

>
> It has been a while since I've built open source debs, but this is above
> and beyond the effort required to prerelease for me though. It used to be
> such a fundamental part of the process - what is the current thinking?
> Given that its been out for at least three months, are most people just
> guessing, rebuilding on the farm, guessing again? Is there a planned remedy
> on the horizon?
>

Basically, yes.

Presently, the pre-release tests take more effort than just hoping for the
best and then fixing things that break.


> My 2 cents - I'd really love to see this working again ;) ;) ;) ;)
>
> Saves alot of time for me not having to ping pong back and forth trying to
> get my dependencies right and I'm sure it makes the job easier on the other
> end avoiding having so many red blips on the radar so often.
>

+1 I would find it helpful, too. I much prefer running the tests.

The pre-docker web interface was very convenient. I think this could be,
too, although it's annoying that the Trusty version of docker is too old to
use.
-- 
 joq