[ros-users] Jade Beta

Tully Foote tfoote at osrfoundation.org
Wed Jun 3 08:08:30 UTC 2015


On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 5:54 PM, Daniel Stonier via ros-users <
ros-users at lists.ros.org> wrote:

>
>
> On 7 May 2015 at 05:55, William Woodall via ros-users <
> ros-users at lists.ros.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> For everyone out there that has been working on the documentation for
>> Jade, first of all thanks! Second of all, I just wanted to let everyone
>> know I just updated the ROS distro versioned blocks on the wiki to accept
>> the `_and_newer` and the `_and_older` suffixes. This should make it easier
>> to have sections of your wiki pages that stay up to date version to
>> version, and should be generally more flexible. Please have a look at the
>> updated documentation:
>>
>>
>> http://wiki.ros.org/WikiMacrohttps://github.com/ros-infrastructure/roswiki/issuess#Version
>> <http://wiki.ros.org/WikiMacros#Version>
>>
>
> Something that would be very useful for us would be to lock down the
> default landing page to a particular version. We've got quite a few
> packages we only have the resources to support/upgrade for the long term
> releases (e.g. indigo) and it's rather repetitive always having to click
> back from the latest release page (where we usually put a message saying
> it's not supported in this release) back to the indigo page.
>

That sounds like a great idea. If you could flesh it out a little more it
would be a great enhancement ticket to track for adding to the wiki. [1] It
might be an extension to the PackageHeader macro with an optional argument
for declaring it's LTS only or something like that.

Tully


[1] https://github.com/ros-infrastructure/roswiki/issues


>
> Daniel.
>
>
>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 6:03 PM, William Woodall <
>> william at osrfoundation.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi guys,
>>>
>>> tl;dr: Jade beta is out!
>>>
>>> ----
>>>
>>> I'm happy to announce we're now in the Jade Beta! We're a few days
>>> behind schedule, but thanks to the hard work of all our contributors we've
>>> now got all of desktop-full released into Jade and available on
>>> packages.ros.org.
>>>
>>> Even though we're a bit behind schedule, we would like to try and keep
>>> the original release date of May 23rd (also world turtle day [1] :D). That
>>> gives us just under 23 days until the release. We'll keep that date unless
>>> we run into a show stopper within desktop-full.
>>>
>>> So between now and then I would encourage everyone who is able to:
>>>
>>>    - Install `ros-jade-desktop-full` on Ubuntu and test out packages
>>>    you regularly use.
>>>    - Testing on other platforms is also appreciated!
>>>    - Try out any documentation that you can, including tutorials,
>>>    package wiki pages, and generated code docs.
>>>    - Continue releasing packages and fill out the gaps between Jade and
>>>    Indigo where possible.
>>>
>>> If you find any issues while testing, please locate the issue tracker
>>> (usually on the corresponding wiki page for the package, e.g.
>>> wiki.ros.org/rviz) and report the issue there.
>>>
>>> Auditing documentation is more challenging just because there is so much
>>> of it and searching on the wiki does not always make it easy to find pages
>>> with distribution specific content. So to help with this, I've done some
>>> special searches locally on the wiki's web server and compiled a list of
>>> pages which _may_ need to be updated for Jade:
>>>
>>> https://github.com/ros/rosdistro/issues/8284
>>>
>>> So if you have time, please look at that list, and do a spot check on
>>> any pages that you use or have used in the past. Many of the core
>>> documentation pages are absent from that list because I've compiled them
>>> separately in a GitHub issue here:
>>>
>>> https://github.com/ros/rosdistro/issues/6878
>>>
>>> Finally, if you are trying to release a package for Jade and the
>>> dependencies are not there yet, please contact the maintainers or ask for
>>> help on ros-release at lists.ros.org.
>>>
>>> Thanks again to everyone who helped get the Jade beta out (mostly) on
>>> time.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> P.S. Only ros-jade-desktop is available on armhf right now, we're
>>> waiting on an updated set of gazebo5 debs and then we'll have desktop-full
>>> on armhf as well. Also, armhf is Trusty only right now.
>>>
>>> P.S.S. If you are testing gazebo-ros integration, we are aware of an
>>> issue with the launch files and are tracking it here:
>>>
>>> https://github.com/ros-simulation/gazebo_ros_pkgs/issues/323
>>>
>>> A work around is to install `libgazebo5-dev` manually. We hope to have a
>>> proper fix out soon.
>>>
>>> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Turtle_Day
>>>
>>> --
>>> William Woodall
>>> ROS Development Team
>>> william at osrfoundation.org
>>> http://wjwwood.io/
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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>> william at osrfoundation.org
>> http://wjwwood.io/
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