[Fedora Robotics] ROS Packaging Roadmap

[Rich Mattes]

On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 10:00 AM, Tom Callaway <tcallawa at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 09/17/2012 09:33 AM, Rich Mattes wrote:
> > In the meantime, I will submit rosinstall, rosdep, and rospkg for review
> > sometime this week since they're straightforward python packages which
> > are required by the upstream source installation directions (I've
> > already got vcstools reviewed and in Fedora).
>
> I agree with all of your points, let me know how I can help. (I got
> buried with other tasks too, but I kept meaning to get back to working
> on ROS.)
>
>
I should stop estimating timeframes for things, real life is way too
unpredictible.

I submitted rosdep, rospkg, rosinstall, and ros-release for review.  Ankur
has handled reviewing rosinstall and rospkg.  rosdep and ros-release are
still in progress.

My next step is going to be creating a python-catkin package, since it
looks like catkin is more or less a standalone python package that doesn't
really rely on ROS (just a folder from ros-release.)  From there, I'll
start fixing up and posting the ros-fuerte packages I am working on at [1].

Once some of the std_msgs and similar pacakges are in, I can patch PCL to
build against them and we'll have ended the PCL standalone nightmare by
growing a dependency on ROS.

My plan is to stick with Fuerte for f18 and put Groovy in f19 (maybe even
as a feature), but we can re-evaluate that as time goes on.

I also have a gazebo package for the latest release (1.2.5), I'll update
the review request[2] and submit packages for the new dependencies it's
grown since 1.0.1.  Unfortunately, Gazebo doesn't seem to render anything
properly on my machine using nouveau or nvidia drivers.  Still getting to
the bottom of that one I'm afraid...there's an upstream bug report[3].

Hopefully I can get some of this done tonight before this hurricane
destroys the world...

Rich

[1] http://rmattes.fedorapeople.org/rospackages/
[2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=825409
[3]
https://bitbucket.org/osrf/gazebo/issue/143/rendering-issues-blank-world-and-missing
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