Here's the set of remaining packages for the milestone of releasing desktop-full in Kinetic, with status updates:

executive_smach

gazebo_ros_pkgs (blocked by ros_control, control_toolbox; Bence and co. are almost done)

perception_pcl (Paul is working on it)

rqt_common_plugins (Dirk is fixing Qt5 problems)

rqt_robot_plugins (needs rqt_common_plugins)

stage_ros (William committed to releasing it today)
urdf_tutorial

I set April 25th as the deadline for desktop-full, which is coming up on Monday. This goal is achievable but it will be close. So, let us know if you need a hand with whatever is needed for the release (e.g. debugging dependency issues in Xenial).

Thank you to all the maintainers who have made releases for Kinetic so far!

As a heads up to those affected by it, Tully is also pushing to get the Turtlebot stack released and building packages on ARM.

Cheers,

Jackie