[ros-users] package list on ROS Repository wiki page not getting updated

[Advait Jain]

Now that I know how things are set up, it makes sense to me and seems
perfectly reasonable. Thanks for the clarifications.


On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Ken Conley <kwc at willowgarage.com> wrote:
> Hi Advait,
>
> Your previous experience was probably because someone had already
> created the package wiki pages.
>
> It's a bit of a compromise -- the 'browse' tab will show you *every*
> known ROS package in the universe, the wiki only shows you ones where
> some effort in creating documentation has been expended. As it only
> takes 5 seconds to create a package page, this has been a low-effort,
> but useful filter. There's a lot of churn in the ROS package universe
> and this layer lets you 'curate' the packages you wish to present on
> the gt-ros-pkg page.
>
> Suggestions are always welcome as the growth of ROS packages and
> public repos has been staggering this year, and it's been a bit of
> race to keep up.
>
>  - Ken
>
> On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Advait Jain <advait at cc.gatech.edu> wrote:
>> Hi Ken,
>>
>> Some examples of packages in gt-ros-pkg that are not showing up are
>> hrl_segway_omni,  2010_icra_epc_pull, phantom_omni. None of these
>> packages has a wiki page on ros.org.
>>
>> My understanding was that the macro creates a link from the subversion
>> repository to a wiki page using the manifest.xml, we can then go in
>> and add more documentation. It seemed like that is what happened when
>> we first created our repository homepage on ros.org - all our existing
>> packages showed up with an wiki page that had the PackageHeader macro.
>>
>> I created a wiki page for 2010_icra_epc_pull and it is now showing up
>> in the list of packages.
>>
>> Advait
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Ken Conley <kwc at willowgarage.com> wrote:
>>> Hi Advait,
>>>
>>> The macro is wiki-based, so it will only list packages that have wiki
>>> pages on ROS.org. Specifically, it looks for wiki pages with
>>> '/gt-ros-pkg' in the text. Our infrastructure attempts to
>>> automatically insert this into the appropriate pages, but there are
>>> occasional issues that we can debug if you can provide examples of it
>>> not working.
>>>
>>> Hope this helps,
>>> Kne
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 12:16 PM, Advait Jain <advait at cc.gatech.edu> wrote:
>>>> It seems that the <<FullSearch("/gt-ros-pkg" CategoryPackage
>>>> -CategoryRepo)>> macro is not working for us. The new packages that we
>>>> have added to our ROS repository do not show up in the list. Is this
>>>> macro being used incorrectly?
>>>>
>>>> This is our repository homepage on ros.org:
>>>> http://www.ros.org/wiki/gt-ros-pkg
>>>>
>>>> Advait
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