On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 11:38 PM, Daniel Stonier <
d.stonier@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I've always struggled to locate the following information every time I go
> searching:
>
>
> - When are the next rosdistro releases due?
> - What platforms are they going to be running on?
> - What underlying dependency shifts are looming (e.g. python3)?
>
>
> The first thing I do is google 'ros roadmap'. I just watched a colleague
> go looking for the same information and also googled those exact same
> keywords. Probably others do also.
>
> What they get you at #1 is http://wiki.ros.org/ROS/Roadmap which doesn't
> provide recent or new information, but is now information about a legacy
> process that is not marked as legacy - confusing. And then you have to
> really start digging to answer the questions above.
>
> The information can be found from the ros main page (http://wiki.ros.org/)
> under 'Distributions' which isn't entirely obvious. Important pages being:
>
>
> - http://wiki.ros.org/Distributions
> - http://wiki.ros.org/Distributions/Timeline
> - http://www.ros.org/reps/rep-0003.html (which could do with an update
> for indigo/j-turtle)
>
>
> To make it more visible, can we:
>
>
> - Forward wiki.ros.org/ROS/Roadmap -> wiki.ros.org/Roadmap
> - Add links for the above to that page?
>
> +1
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joq
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