[ros-users] New Documentation Generation and Indexing for ros.org

Thu Nov 8 14:10:39 UTC 2012

Thanks Eitan,

I will try the instructions for Fuerte/Groovy.

--patrick

On 11/06/2012 07:23 AM, Eitan Marder-Eppstein wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> Sorry that's it's taken me a bit to chime in on things. It's been a 
> hectic start to the week
>
> Patrick, for your packages, if you submit a repository to the Fuerte 
> indexer, you'll get headers auto-generated for that distribution. The 
> same can be said for Groovy. So, you shouldn't have to manually add 
> headers. With electric, it's a bit trickier because that's still 
> running the old documentation indexer and running off the distro file 
> of released stacks. If there's a ton of demand to have headers 
> generated for electric, there might be a way for me to create a hybrid 
> system of the old and new indexers, but it's an item that hasn't been 
> high on my priority list. As Christain mentioned/quoted, documentation 
> for electric was actually never very complete, it's just that no one 
> noticed because distro-level browsing wasn't something that you could 
> really do on the wiki.
>
> As for the unstable builds that Mani mentions, there are still some 
> issues that I'm having with getting message generation to run properly 
> during documentation. I'm going to try to solve this problem this 
> week. So, for now, ignoring the fact that a build is unstable is OK. 
> Perhaps I should remove those messages from the wiki until I fix the 
> problem that is causing the majority of this instability  Once this 
> issue is fixed, however, the idea is that stack maintainers can see 
> why their builds are failing or unstable and make fixes to their 
> repositories as needed. This should all work properly soon, sorry for 
> the state of limbo that exists in the near-term.
>
> Hope this helps and that all is well,
>
> Eitan
>
> On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 7:36 PM, Patrick Goebel <patrick at pirobot.org 
> <mailto:patrick at pirobot.org>> wrote:
>
>     Thanks Christian,
>
>     So I guess I need to go back and add the header manually to each
>     wiki page for now.
>
>     --patrick
>
>
>     On 11/05/2012 01:59 AM, Christian Dornhege wrote:
>
>         On 03.11.2012 14:02, Patrick Goebel wrote:
>
>             Sorry to be so dense everyone, but can someone tell me if
>             packages that
>             have long existed in the indexer for ROS Electric (e.g.
>             pi_face_tracker)
>             need to be resubmitted to ros-users to have the correct
>             header created
>             on the Wiki page?  At the moment, all my old Wiki pages
>             have the
>             following message at the top even for Electric:
>
>             Cannot load information on*name: pi_face_tracker, distro:
>             electric*,
>             which means that it is not yet in our index. Please
>             seethis page
>             <http://www.ros.org/wiki/Get%20Involved#Indexing_Your_.2A-ros-pkg_Repository_for_Documentation_Generation>for
>
>             information on how to submit your repository to our index.
>
>             And it appears that it is not just my packages but others
>             (e.g.
>             face_recognition).  Or is the new requirement that the
>             package has to
>             exist as a Debian package?
>
>
>         It is the same for our packages. Let me quote Eitan's reply to
>         my question:
>
>         On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 5:57 AM, Christian Dornhege
>         <dornhege at informatik.uni-freiburg.de
>         <mailto:dornhege at informatik.uni-freiburg.de>> wrote:
>         > Was this behavior maybe changed at some time? I remember it
>         indexing our trunk/ URL. Now it seems that only the packages
>         are indexed that have been released as debs.
>
>         The behavior for electric documentation always worked this
>         way. However, there was a separate indexer that ran off of
>         rosinstall files documenting whatever was in them, but that is
>         no longer run in favor of the new system. It's possible that
>         this old indexer produced your headers and documentation, but
>         the docs for electric specifically were never generated. With
>         the old wiki, no one would have noticed this as per-distro
>         browsing wasn't something that was really possible to do. The
>         old indexer job was kind of weird to begin with since it could
>         allow for documentation to be mixed between distros... leading
>         to some weird effects.
>
>
>         Best,
>           Christian
>
>
>             Thanks!
>             patrick
>
>
>
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