[ros-release] What is the status of code.ros.org?

[Jack O'Quin]

On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 1:37 PM, Dirk Thomas <dthomas at osrfoundation.org>wrote:

> Tully has announced on ros-users that everybody should migrate
> repositories away from kforge.ros.org / code.ros.org (
> http://lists.ros.org/**pipermail/ros-users/2013-**September/067953.html<http://lists.ros.org/pipermail/ros-users/2013-September/067953.html>
> ).
> Simply because we have (nearly) no control over these servers anymore and
> they might go away anytime.
>

Doesn't OSRF control the ros.org DNS names? Would OSU host those repos?


> I am not aware of any package released into Hydro that still uses
> code.ros.org - so zero seems plausible for me.
> But other references e.g. in Groovy should be updated if the repos have
> alraedy been migrated.
>

The Groovy references are all in the doc.yaml. The fact that there are none
for Hydro may just mean that nobody is updating the documentation any
longer. Not necessarily a good sign.


> If the repos have not yet been migrated I can only advise every maintainer
> to grab their code and put it somewhere else or it might suddenly
> disappear...


When it does, a lot of Electric and Fuerte users are going to be very
unhappy. And, the ROS wiki will be badly broken.
-- 
 joq
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