[ros-users] Jade Beta

Fri Jun 5 00:53:23 UTC 2015

I started a thread at ros-infrastructure/roswiki#134
<https://github.com/ros-infrastructure/roswiki/issues/134> to get things
rolling - please add your thoughts there.

Daniel.

On 3 June 2015 at 17:08, Tully Foote <tfoote at osrfoundation.org> wrote:

>
>
> 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/
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> William Woodall
>>> ROS Development Team
>>> william at osrfoundation.org
>>> http://wjwwood.io/
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> ros-users mailing list
>>> ros-users at lists.ros.org
>>> http://lists.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Phone : +82-10-5400-3296 (010-5400-3296)
>> Home: http://snorriheim.dnsdojo.com/
>> Yujin Inno: http://inno.yujinrobot.com/
>> <http://rnd.yujinrobot.com/>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> ros-users mailing list
>> ros-users at lists.ros.org
>> http://lists.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users
>>
>>
>

-- 
Phone : +82-10-5400-3296 (010-5400-3296)
Home: http://snorriheim.dnsdojo.com/
Yujin Inno: http://inno.yujinrobot.com/
<http://rnd.yujinrobot.com/>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.ros.org/pipermail/ros-users/attachments/20150605/b2293044/attachment.html>