Great ideas. I encountered the same problems in the past.
On Nov 9, 2013 8:40 AM, "Jack O'Quin" <
jack.oquin@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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