[ros-users] ROS package git repository conventions?

[Lorenzo Riano]

Ok, a more practical example:

We at Ulster have a shared account on GitHub called
"uu-isrc-robotics<https://github.com/uu-isrc-robotics>".
We started with one repository, called
uu-isrc-robotics-pr2-pkgs<https://github.com/uu-isrc-robotics/uu-isrc-robotics-pr2-pkgs>that
contained one stack and some packages in the stack. When we released
the rubik's cube solver
code,<https://github.com/uu-isrc-robotics/pr2_rubiks_solver>I decided
to keep it separate from the other stacks (to avoid people having
to pull a lot of code they don't need). I guess this will become common
practice in the future, say Berkely stack becomes a collection of several
stacks hosted by the same user (but not in the same repository).

Now the problem is that every time we release a new stack, we'll have to
notify ros-users, get a confirmation, and wait for the the crawler to find
the new stack. So my idea would be to have a crawler that monitors a user
account (for example "uu-isrc-robotics <https://github.com/uu-isrc-robotics>")
and automatically finds and indexes which repositories contain stacks.

I hope it makes sense now

On 16 August 2011 16:52, Ken Conley <kwc at willowgarage.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 7:24 AM, Lorenzo Riano <lorenzo.riano at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I have received some emails of people who wanted to run the rubik's cube
> > stack, but they didn't want to pull the whole UU stack just because the
> > rubik's stack depends on a single package in UU (OK it's a bit
> > complicated...)
> >
> > Anyway, what I think would be interesting is to have the ROS indexer scan
> > the packages of a (for example) GitHub user and retrieve all the stacks.
> > This way Berkley, TUM, UU and so on will have an account on GitHub (or
> > google code or whatever) with several repositories, each of them being a
> > stack.
>
> What is the argument for this over, say, git submodules?  There are
> many issues on the implementation side of doing this, so I'm wondering
> what the advantage would be.
>
>  - Ken
>
> >
> > I hope this makes sense...
> >
> > Lorenzo
> >
> > On 15 August 2011 21:05, Ibrahim Awwal <ibrahim.awwal at berkeley.edu>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi ROS users,
> >>
> >> We're considering/planning on switching to git/github for the Berkeley
> >> ROS package. What are the conventions on structure and such that people
> >> are using? With svn we have a url like this
> >> http://ros.berkeley.edu/svn/berkeley-ros-pkg/ with all our stuff, with
> >> git would it be preferrable to have one repo called berkeley-ros-pkg or
> >> separate repos for each stack and maybe link them together with
> >> submodules? What are other people doing that are using git? It seems
> >> like at least TUM is using separate repos per project on their git repo
> >> (which seems to be the much more sane route) but I was wondering if
> >> there was any requirement to have something called foo-ros-pkg
> >> somewhere. Thanks,
> >>
> >> -Ibrahim
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> >
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Lorenzo Riano, PhD
Research Associate
Intelligent Systems Research Centre
University of Ulster
Magee campus
Londonderry
BT48 7JL

phone: +44 (0)28 71375187
email: l.riano at ulster.ac.uk, lorenzo.riano at gmail.com
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