[ros-users] ROS Packages Mantainer Statusvvvv

[Tully Foote]

On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 7:28 PM, Marcus Liebhardt <
marcus.liebhardt at yujinrobot.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 12:09 PM, Tully Foote <tfoote at osrfoundation.org>wrote:
>
>> Hi Everyone,
>>
>> I'm happy to announce that with the upgrades to the ROS infrastructure,
>> specifically REP 137, we can now provide a maintainer status for catkin
>> based packages for Groovy [1] and Hydro [2].  If you browse these status
>> pages you will see now not just the versions and build status, but also the
>> maintainer and the maintenance status.
>>
>
> Will the maintenance status be shown on the wiki (stack/package
> documentation) as well?
>

We plan to do that.  It's ticketed here:
https://github.com/ros-infrastructure/roswiki/issues/43 It's not our top
priority at the moment as there is at least visibility on the debbuild
dashboard now.

Tully


>
>
>>  This is part of our effort to make the development status of packages
>> more easily discoverable to users.
>>
>> All packages are initialized to unknown and maintainers are asked to
>> submit a pull request to state that they will maintain the package for this
>> rosdistro.  Each successive rosdistro will request that maintainers
>> resubmit pull requests to declare their intent to continue maintaining the
>> package.  After most maintainers are filled in and the state of the system
>> is determined we will put out a call for adoption for packages which do not
>> have active maintainers.
>>
>> We have 4 supported maintenance levels:
>> developed
>> maintained
>> unmaintained
>> end-of-life
>>
>> More details the status definitions can be found in REP 137 [3]
>>
>> If you are a maintainer please submit a pull request to state the
>> expected level of maintenance.  If you are not currently a maintainer
>> please consider reviewing packages which you use or care about and consider
>> volunteering to maintain them if there is a call for adoption.  Being a
>> maintainer is not a large commitment to do significant development, it is
>> simply to keep packages up to date and make the occasional release.
>>
>> To update maintainer status you need to submit a pull request to the
>> rosdistro repo.  Some examples are included below.
>>
>> Tully
>>
>>
>>
>> [1] http://www.ros.org/debbuild/groovy.html
>> [2] http://www.ros.org/debbuild/hydro.html
>> [3] http://ros.org/reps/rep-0137.html
>>
>>
>> Example Pull Requests:
>> https://github.com/ros/rosdistro/pull/755
>> https://github.com/ros/rosdistro/pull/753
>> https://github.com/ros/rosdistro/pull/750
>> https://github.com/ros/rosdistro/pull/744
>>
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>
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