[ros-release] ROS Groovy EOL Planning

[Steven Peters]

> From: Tully Foote <tfoote at osrfoundation.org>
> To: ROS-Release <ros-release at code.ros.org>
> Subject: Re: [ros-release] ROS Groovy EOL Planning
>
> Hi Vincent,
>
> The groovy EOL went into effect at the end of last month. You'll see that
> all the groovy jobs are disabled. It's on my to-do list to formally
> announce it to ros users.
>
> We probably won't disable saucy for a while as that knob has not been
> tested and I don't expect it to work without some testing and development.
>
> Related to that development, were working toward making the buildfarm
> deployable. So to that end we'll be looking to test it with the upcoming
> Jade beta when Ubuntu 15.04 goes into beta.
>
> Indigo is focused on long term stability. We're not planning to support
> Utopic officially on the build farm.
>
> http://www.ros.org/reps/rep-0003.html
>
> Though if you make patches I expect most maintainers will accept them. But
> for using Utopic you'll need to build indigo from source or wait for jade.
>

Note that there may be some complications with building Indigo from source
on 14.10 (utopic). For example, libccd will be a system package in utopic,
which may conflict with ros-indigo-libccd.

https://github.com/ros-gbp/libccd-release/issues/1

Steve
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