[ros-users] New Groovy Packages Released

[Tully Foote]

On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 5:17 AM, Thibault Kruse <kruset at in.tum.de> wrote:

> Hi Jack,
>
>
> On 04.03.2013 14:52, Jack O'Quin wrote:
>
>> Converting additional packages to catkin should wait until Hydro. That is
>> much too disruptive a change for a bug-fix release of Groovy.
>>
>
> This was discussed in the platform group meeting on the 29th of January.
>
> From what i can remember and gather from the meeting notes, we agreed on
> something like not officially recommending to catkinize within a distro,
> but also not refusing that. I wrote that up as "Porting dry Groovy packages
> to catkin in groovy-devel branch is okay to do, but should only be done if
> users are aware and demanding. Else to do in hydro-devel".
> http://www.ros.org/wiki/**platform_group<http://www.ros.org/wiki/platform_group>
> But that was my formulation from memory, the actual meeting protocol is
> not very detailed on this point.
>
> Else in the meeting we said Tully would write up an announcement on
> ros-users, but that action item may have been forgotten due to other
> events, so that decision was not communicated well, I guess.
>


Our default is to not backport package catkinization into groovy.   The
xacro package has significant performance increases provided by
catkinization, and it was blocking development/release of new catkinized
packages at a higher level.  Unfortunately the release was one of the last
done during the build cycle leaving it with only a few days of soak time,
and that was over the weekend so it got minimal testing.  Overall in the
entire ecosystem we need to improve our test coverage to catch this earlier
and prevent it's release.

1.7.3 was released yesterday morning and the buildfarm has been running
continuously since then.
http://jenkins.willowgarage.com:8080/label/debbuild/load-statistics?type=min
There
was a glitch when we provisioned more machines last night to make it run
faster, but it's been fixed and now running with 30% more machines.

As soon as it finishes rebuilding we'll get a new release out.

Tully



> cheers,
>   Thibault
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