<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 10:43 PM, Ankur Sinha <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sanjay.ankur@gmail.com" target="_blank">sanjay.ankur@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hi folks,<br>
<br>
I'm Ankur. I've been around the Fedora community for a few years now.<br>
I'm a package maintainer and an ambassador, and well, a general<br>
community monkey. I've just begun a masters by research course which is<br>
based around mobile robot navigation in a dynamic environment. I've been<br>
working with IMUs, the NAO and a few other things currently.<br>
<br>
I intend to continue with robotics after masters (a PhD) and think I<br>
could therefore help with the robotics SIG. I've seen that ROS is being<br>
packaged for Fedora[1]. Since I'm already a package maintainer, I can<br>
help with packaging and reviewing. Are there any packages that require<br>
attention at the moment, a road plan maybe?<br>
<br>
I haven't any experience with ROS (yet).<br>
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[1] <a href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ROS_Fuerte" target="_blank">https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ROS_Fuerte</a><br>
[2] <a href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Robotics/ROS_Packaging" target="_blank">https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Robotics/ROS_Packaging</a><br>
<br></blockquote><div><br>Hi,<br><br>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.<br>
<br>Rich<br><br>[1] <a href="http://www.ros.org/wiki/groovy/Planning" target="_blank">http://www.ros.org/wiki/groovy/Planning</a><br>
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