[Fedora Robotics] ROS Fuerte

[Rich Mattes]

On 06/02/2012 12:24 AM, Rich Mattes wrote:
> On 06/01/2012 01:28 PM, Tom Callaway wrote:
>> I'm making progress again now that I have the ROS fork of PCL packaged
>> up. My initial pass is to build all the deps necessary for the NXT stack
>> (as that is my first test platform).
>>
>> I'm hanging out in #fedora-robotics if you want to talk about stuff
>> there. :)
>>
>> ~tom
>
> I've been playing with packaging stacks based off of your example, and 
> I got three more or less done.  I've edited the wiki with which 
> packages are completed and posted thus far[1], we can add stacks to it 
> as we go so we don't duplicate effort.
>
> Rich
>
> [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Robotics/ROS_Packaging
>

I've been following up with a few of the problem stacks over the past 
week or so.  It looks like the next release of PCL will have the bits 
that the wg-pcl repository includes and the main source distribution 
doesn't[1].  According to the gazebo mailing list, the next release of 
gazebo should follow suit and the ROS stack should depend on the source 
distribution of gazebo and not a special patched version that is only 
available from rosinstall or the wg ubuntu repositories[2].

ROS groovy is due out around October[3], which is after the f18 feature 
freeze, but I think we should make ROS an f18 feature and shoot for 
getting fuerte included for the f18 release.  I'm willing to handle the 
feature page and contribute to package submission, patching, and 
reviewing this summer if everyone thinks this is a workable goal.

Rich

[1] http://dev.pointclouds.org/issues/699
[2] http://kforge.ros.org/pipermail/gazebo-list/2012-June/004011.html
[3] http://www.ros.org/wiki/groovy/Planning