[ros-release] ROS Groovy EOL Planning

Thu Oct 9 07:23:06 UTC 2014

Any news on EOL-ing Groovy or Saucy for Indigo ?
Also, when will Unicorn appear for Indigo ? I'd like to do the switch in
advance and I could help debugging a few issues if any (the default gcc has
been bumped). Thx.

On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 7:52 PM, Tully Foote <tfoote at osrfoundation.org>
wrote:

> We pushed the sync of groovy and hydro. The arm_navigation_experimental on
> quantal has not yet been merged but almost every other package was fixed.
>
> Thanks everyone for your releases. It's made a huge difference to the
> community.
>
> Tully
>
> On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 11:29 PM, Tully Foote <tfoote at osrfoundation.org>
> wrote:
>
>> We've successfully synced indigo. Next is to look at groovy.
>>
>> As a quick update. We have built up 174 updates to packages in the groovy
>> rosdistro preparing to sync. You can see the status I'm looking at here:
>> http://www.ros.org/debbuild/groovy.html?q=sync
>>
>> There are also 45 regressions. Many of these are localized to quantal due
>> to arm_experimental which has been discussed in this thread earlier. To see
>> the current status of regressions see here:
>> http://www.ros.org/debbuild/groovy.html?q=regression If there are
>> packages here which you care about please contact the maintainers.
>>
>> We'll also be looking to sync hydro soon too. There are a few regressions
>> here too: http://www.ros.org/debbuild/hydro.html?q=regression which are
>> blocking another large bunch of packages to sync:
>> http://www.ros.org/debbuild/hydro.html?q=sync
>>
>> Tully
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 11:25 PM, Tully Foote <tfoote at osrfoundation.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks for tracking that down Shaun and providing a pull-request.
>>> Hopefully, one of the maintainers can merge and make the release.
>>>
>>> The references will need to be updated here:
>>> https://code.google.com/p/ros-dry-releases/source/browse/trunk/distros/groovy.rosdistro
>>> before release. But after that it should release fine.
>>>
>>> Tully
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 6:25 AM, Shaun Edwards <shaun.edwards at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> All,
>>>>
>>>> I was able to recreate the problem with arm navigation experimental on
>>>> Quantal and solve it.  I've issue a PR, here:
>>>> https://github.com/willowgarage/arm_navigation_experimental/pull/2
>>>>
>>>> Rosdistro still points to kforge, so I'm not sure how this will get
>>>> merged in.
>>>>
>>>> Please let me know how else I can help,
>>>>
>>>> Shaun
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 10:17 PM, Shaun Edwards <
>>>> shaun.edwards at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I'm having some trouble recreating the issue (I'm tracking it here
>>>>> <https://github.com/willowgarage/arm_navigation_experimental/issues/1>).
>>>>> I've created a 64 bit Quantal VM, set the debian source to shadow-fixed,
>>>>> and installed arm_navigation (sudo apt-get install
>>>>> ros-groovy-arm-navigation).  I then check out arm_navigation_experimental
>>>>> from github (the wiki indicates that arm_navigation is still on kforge, not
>>>>> sure how this is still working).  move_arm_warehouse builds without any
>>>>> problems.
>>>>>
>>>>> The rebuild was triggered by changes to catkin here
>>>>> <http://jenkins.ros.org/job/ros-groovy-catkin_binarydeb_quantal_amd64/49/>.
>>>>> I'm simply using rosmake to build.  Is there a way to better mimic what is
>>>>> happening on the build server (something including the changes made to
>>>>> catkin?).
>>>>>
>>>>> Any help/thoughts are appreciated,
>>>>>
>>>>> Shaun
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 2:02 PM, William Woodall <
>>>>> william at osrfoundation.org> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> With just a brief glance, it sounds like this might be related:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://github.com/ros-visualization/rviz/pull/589
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Then again maybe not.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 9:12 AM, Shaun Edwards <
>>>>>> shaun.edwards at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> All,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> It looks like several packages(ROS-I, PR2, and others) are held on
>>>>>>> Quantal due to a failure in arm-navigation-experimental.  I'm working on
>>>>>>> tracking down the issue.  The build logs complain about a parser issue on
>>>>>>> BOOST:JOIN.  I found this helpful link:
>>>>>>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15455178/qt4-cgal-parse-error-at-boost-join.
>>>>>>> It appears to be a bug in QT, that has been fixed, but maybe not on
>>>>>>> Quantal?  I'm quickly getting out of my element, so I figured I'd see if
>>>>>>> anybody else already tackled this problem.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Shaun
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 7:04 PM, Tully Foote <
>>>>>>> tfoote at osrfoundation.org> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hi Everyone,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> With Indigo Igloo released, and as we prepare to setup the
>>>>>>>> infrastructure for Jade Turtle, Groovy Galapagos has now reached it’s
>>>>>>>> End-of-Life.  We are looking at turning the groovy jobs off on the
>>>>>>>> buildfarm in the near future, after which the groovy packages will still be
>>>>>>>> available, however we will no longer be able to build updated packages or
>>>>>>>> documentation.  As such I’d like to suggest that groovy maintainers take a
>>>>>>>> few minutes and verify that documentation and packages for groovy are
>>>>>>>> stable and if there’s anything outstanding which should be taken care of,
>>>>>>>> that the groovy maintainers do so now.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> There are almost 100 updated packages queued for release which we
>>>>>>>> would like to get out.  However there are several packages currently
>>>>>>>> regressing on the groovy debbuild status page. [1]
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>  We will plan to release groovy a week from Friday, September 3rd,
>>>>>>>> with as many update to packages as possible. After which we will freeze new
>>>>>>>> releases into groovy.  As with any releases there is a chance of
>>>>>>>> regression. So we will keep the buildfarm operational for the remainder of
>>>>>>>> September, but only accept regression patch fixes. After which all groovy
>>>>>>>> jobs will be turned off.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> If you have any feedback, questions, or suggestions please let us
>>>>>>>> know.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Tully
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> [1] http://www.ros.org/debbuild/groovy.html?q=regression
>>>>>>>>
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