[Fedora Robotics] Self introduction: Ankur Sinha

[Rich Mattes]

On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 10:43 PM, Ankur Sinha <sanjay.ankur at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> I'm Ankur. I've been around the Fedora community for a few years now.
> I'm a package maintainer and an ambassador, and well, a general
> community monkey. I've just begun a masters by research course which is
> based around mobile robot navigation in a dynamic environment. I've been
> working with IMUs, the NAO and a few other things currently.
>
> I intend to continue with robotics after masters (a PhD) and think I
> could therefore help with the robotics SIG. I've seen that ROS is being
> packaged for Fedora[1]. Since I'm already a package maintainer, I can
> help with packaging and reviewing. Are there any packages that require
> attention at the moment, a road plan maybe?
>
> I haven't any experience with ROS (yet).
>
> [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ROS_Fuerte
> [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Robotics/ROS_Packaging
>
>
Hi,

Great to have you aboard!   The ROS packaging feature is currently a draft
that we'll probably have to update to re-target for f19.  We wanted to get
ROS Fuerte packaged for f18 as a feature, but didn't get enough work done
in time and missed the feature deadline.  ROS Groovy is also on its way (it
should be out in October[1]), which makes it a good target for a f19
feature.  I'll probably update the ROS feature page for ROS Groovy once
it's released.  I can start another email thread to discuss the packaging
roadmap and other issues.

Rich

[1] http://www.ros.org/wiki/groovy/Planning
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