[ros-users] Stack visibility

[Ken Conley]

Hi Steven,

I believe I have sent some details on this to Ruben, so you may wish
to consult with him.

The issue is that the URL we are currently indexing,

http://svn.mech.kuleuven.be/repos/orocos/trunk/kul-ros-pkg

has conflicting layouts. It has both straight packages, e.g.:

http://svn.mech.kuleuven.be/repos/orocos/trunk/kul-ros-pkg/iTaSC/

And it has a per-stack layout, e.g.

http://svn.mech.kuleuven.be/repos/orocos/trunk/kul-ros-pkg/stacks/orocos_toolchain_ros/trunk

Our indexer expects to be able to checkout a given URL, and have a
valid ROS setup in the resulting checkout. As ROS expects the stack
name and the directory name to be the same, this does not work for the
current kul-ros-pkg layout.

As a different example, you'll notice from our repositories (e.g.
wg-ros-pkg) that the 'trunk' and 'stacks' directories are separate
from one another:
code.ros.org/svn/wg-ros-pkg/trunk
code.ros.org/svn/wg-ros-pkg/stacks

The way that we manage the indexing for our repository is that setup
an SVN external:

https://code.ros.org/svn/wg-ros-pkg/externals/rosdoc/

that we autogenerate. If you wish to improve the kul-ros-pkg
repository, I recommend that:

1) You move the 'stacks' directory to be outside of the global 'trunk'
2) You setup an SVN external that points to the desired tag of each
stack you wish to index.

In the future we will allow other ways of controlling how your
repository is indexed, though the SVN external method provides just as
much control as those will.

HTH,
Ken


On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 12:03 AM, Steven Bellens
<steven.bellens at mech.kuleuven.be> wrote:
> Hi
>
> Our orocos_toolchain_ros stack is pretty hard to find at ros.org.
> It's currently listed at
> http://www.ros.org/browse/stack.php?name=cturtle, I assume because of
> the tags subfolders on top of the stack folder. The docs are at the
> right place already (http://www.ros.org/wiki/orocos_toolchain_ros).
> How can we get the stack to be found more easy, e.g. at
> http://www.ros.org/browse/stack.php?name=orocos_toolchain_ros
>
> regards,
>
> Steven
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