[ros-release] ROS Groovy EOL Planning

[Tully Foote]

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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>>>>> ROS Development Team
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