Possibility to integrate with standard meta-ros

[tfoote]

Hi @robwoolley @bengelman,

This repository was noticed by the maintainers of meta-ros (cc @herb-kuta-lge) where we are generating recipes automatically from the rosdistro using a tool superflore following this approach: https://github.com/ros/meta-ros/wiki/Superflore-OE-Recipe-Generation-Scheme

Do you have any thoughts how your work might be integrated back into that pipeline so that we can make this more generic and available to more people? Hopefully we can extend our automatic generation and any specific work for the TurtleBot so that it will work for you based on the generated recipes and also that work will likely open up many more related packages for your use cases too instead of needing to manually maintain the recipes.

[rcwoolley]

Hi Tully,

I would love to make this more generic and available to more people. My intent was to keep the recipes separate from meta-ros purely because they provide things that aren't strictly ROS packages. However, I am open-minded to suggestions for other approaches.

At the moment some of the Turtlebot recipes are broken because the git repositories shifted.

I really like the work that was done in meta-ros to separate each release into a separate layer. I am currently reworking my instructions for building meta-ros and meta-robot on Wind River Linux LTS 19 (zeus). It has been on my to do list, but should only take a few hours to finish. I could probably get it done sometime next week.

What would be a good next step? Should we meet on Zoom or would you prefer to chat on in the ROS Community Discourse?

Regards,
Rob

[tfoote]

A phone call likely makes the most sense, though I think the meta-ros maintainers will be more important to be in the loop. If you email me (my emails in my profile) I can get a thread started for us to find a time to all talk.