[ros-users] Ros Roadmap Information

[Daniel Stonier]

On 12 November 2013 14:43, Dirk Thomas <dthomas at osrfoundation.org> wrote:

> On 11.11.2013 19:07, Daniel Stonier wrote:
>
>>
>> On 12 November 2013 06:41, Dirk Thomas <dthomas at osrfoundation.org<mailto:
>> dthomas at osrfoundation.org>> wrote:
>>
>>     The wiki page was simply pretty outdated.
>>     I have updated the ROS/Roadmap wiki page with current information:
>>     http://wiki.ros.org/ROS/__Roadmap <http://wiki.ros.org/ROS/Roadmap>
>>
>>
>>     Please feel free to discuss any further information which would be
>> useful on that page.
>>
>
>
Ok, perhaps some better wording is needed.


> I don't understand what that sentence is supposed to mean:
>     "Hydro and Indigo will be staggered across Quantal, Raring and Saucy"
> Can you please clarify, Daniel?
>

"Hydro and Indigo will be staggered across Quantal, Raring and Saucy" -
just a reflection of the graph above illustrating hydro/quantal,
hydro/raring, indigo/saucy.


> Regarding the "planning your development" section:
> if we do release Indigo as a kind of LTS version of ROS I would strongly
> disagree to first-time release any disruptive changes into that version and
> than aim for stabilizing them later...
>

Note: I didn't intend with the statement on the wiki page to infer a first
time release on Indigo/Trusty. First time release would be on Indigo/Saucy
as a beta release.

I thought I had heard Tully talking similar to what I outlined there. It
certainly is the way we are planning to move over the next year or so. If
it's not a general consensus, then certainly lets remove it. To clarify, we
need to look at targeting some fairly major release points with disruptive
changes. These disruptive changes have to go in somewhere, so for us, the
best approach would seem to be:

   - Develop on sources
   - Beta release debs on Indigo/Saucy - this is a short term release, so
   edge users only who are great for feedback.
   - Officially release debs on Indigo/LTS Trusty - we've acommodated many
   bugfixes hopefully and at this point we'd point our software on our more
   official platforms. This though, is where most new users would see the
   software.
   - Avoid any further disruptive changes on J-Turtle/LTS Trusty - gives
   the software and users time to enjoy and stabilise.

Catkin went through a fairly similar process - it was beta released in
fuerte (which would be like an early groovy with the longer timespans now),
officially released in groovy on precise, and then hydro saw it really
settle in. Having groovy/hydro on precise, gave a fairly constant
environment to see that through.

Of course, this isn't a must do, but is this a recommendation that folks
agree with and think would be useful?

Cheers,
Daniel


> - Dirk
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