[ros-users] Ros Roadmap Information

[Daniel Stonier]

On 9 November 2013 19:07, Willy Lambert <lambert.willy at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> The wiki should be publicly editable. So I think you can do this change
> yourself if you have an account on the wiki. Take care about what you do
> there anyway.
>
> As they are the main structure of the wiki it would be better you wait a
> bit some feedback before running into the edition.
>
>
Yes, that's why I'm canvassing here for opinions first.



> As the Roadmap page is not linked anywhere I'd suggest you also add a link
> to http://wiki.ros.org/ if you do the changes.
>
>

> 2013/11/9 Daniel Stonier <d.stonier at gmail.com>
>
>>
>> I've always struggled to locate the following information every time I go
>> searching:
>>
>>
>>    - When are the next rosdistro releases due?
>>    - What platforms are they going to be running on?
>>    - What underlying dependency shifts are looming (e.g. python3)?
>>
>>
>> The first thing I do is google 'ros roadmap'. I just watched a colleague
>> go looking for the same information and also googled those exact same
>> keywords. Probably others do also.
>>
>> What they get you at #1 is http://wiki.ros.org/ROS/Roadmap which doesn't
>> provide recent or new information, but is now information about a legacy
>> process that is not marked as legacy - confusing. And then you have to
>> really start digging to answer the questions above.
>>
>> The information can be found from the ros main page (http://wiki.ros.org/)
>> under 'Distributions' which isn't entirely obvious. Important pages being:
>>
>>
>>    - http://wiki.ros.org/Distributions
>>    - http://wiki.ros.org/Distributions/Timeline
>>    - http://www.ros.org/reps/rep-0003.html (which could do with an
>>    update for indigo/j-turtle)
>>
>>
>> To make it more visible, can we:
>>
>>
>>    - Forward wiki.ros.org/ROS/Roadmap -> wiki.ros.org/Roadmap
>>    - Add links for the above to that page?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Daniel/Yujin.
>>
>
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