Kinetic Kick-off Checklist

[esteve]

This is a checklist of things to do for the Kinetic kick-off (pre development and development):

• Choose distribution name: Kinetic
• commission a logo @tfoote
• Add to REP3 with proposed platforms and minimum requirements @esteve Update to REP-0003 for ROS Kinetic Kame ros-infrastructure/rep#106
• List on ROS wiki with expected release date (http://wiki.ros.org/Distributions)
• EOL distribution N-3 (Hydro)
• Add W+X to bootstrap repository on repos.ros.org @tfoote W+X supported ros-infrastructure/reprepro-updater@9518120
• Add W+X to buildfarm_deployment_config @tfoote ros-infrastructure/buildfarm_deployment_config@9817752 (note that one is not the live one it's for reference only)
• Add W+X to ros_buildfarm/common.py add new ubuntu names ros-infrastructure/ros_buildfarm#223

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• Import third party packages
  • colladadom (@wjwwood pinged Rosen on Feb. 29th)

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• Add newly supported Ubuntu platforms to list of platforms for each Python package (in stdeb.cfg), in order of dependency (for ROS-L, do this as soon as debs for new Ubuntu are available, in pre-alpha!):
  • rospkg (uploaded, no need to rerelease): Added Ubuntu Wily (15.10) and Xenial (16.04) ros-infrastructure/rospkg#96
  • catkin_pkg (uploaded, no need to rerelease): Added Ubuntu Wily (15.10) and Xenial (16.04) ros-infrastructure/catkin_pkg#135
  • rosdistro (uploaded, no need to rerelease): Added Ubuntu Wily (15.10) and Xenial (16.04) ros-infrastructure/rosdistro#61
  • rosdep (uploaded, no need to rerelease): Added Ubuntu Wily (15.10) and Xenial (16.04) ros-infrastructure/rosdep#434
  • vcstools (uploaded, no need to rerelease): Added Ubuntu Wily (15.10) and Xenial (16.04) vcstools/vcstools#111
  • wstool (uploaded, no need to rerelease): Added Ubuntu Wily (15.10) and Xenial (16.04) vcstools/wstool#84
  • rosinstall (uploaded, no need to rerelease): Added Ubuntu Wily (15.10) and Xenial (16.04) vcstools/rosinstall#101
  • bloom (uploaded, no need to rerelease): Added Ubuntu Wily (15.10) and Xenial (16.04) ros-infrastructure/bloom#379
  • rosinstall_generator (uploaded, no need to rerelease): Added Ubuntu Wily (15.10) and Xenial (16.04) ros-infrastructure/rosinstall_generator#32
  • catkin_tools (uploaded, no need to rerelease): Added Ubuntu Wily (15.10) and Xenial (16.04) catkin/catkin_tools#289
  • vcstool: dirk-thomas/vcstool@cbf78fe
• Use ros_release_python to make the currently released versions available in the new distros. Use the --includedeb option

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• create Docker images for the new platforms for all targets: i386, armhf
  • @tfoote to do this for Wily

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• Create distribution files in ros/rosdistro Added Kinetic Kame #10443
• add ros_buildfarm_config kinetic entries Added Kinetic ros-infrastructure/ros_buildfarm_config#25
  • create new mailing list (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/ros-buildfarm-kinetic) with exactly the same settings as the existing ones
• Disable jobs from build farm for EOL'ed distribution (Hydro)
• generate new management jobs (see https://github.com/ros-infrastructure/ros_buildfarm/blob/master/doc/deploy_configuration.rst)

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• Remove old pre-release website link from pre-release website @jacquelinekay
• Add new column in prerelease website for the new distro with theme and placeholder image @jacquelinekay Add style and placeholder image for Kinetic ros-infrastructure/prerelease_website#24
  • Test prerelease process

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• Add Kinetic button to the wiki @jacquelinekay
  • Add kinetic to the list of indexed distros ros-infrastructure/roswiki#156
• Add distribution to ROS browse tabs @jacquelinekay
• Edit wiki pages to contain proper content for the Kinetic tag. @jacquelinekay
• Add standard distribution wiki pages (planning, migration, etc...) @jacquelinekay
  • http://wiki.ros.org/kinetic
  • http://wiki.ros.org/kinetic/Planning
  • http://wiki.ros.org/kinetic/Migration Stubbed out, need to fill in content (e.g. qt migration)
  • http://wiki.ros.org/kinetic/Planning/Maintenance
    • Page made, update periodically with metapackage_status.py as packages get released
  • http://wiki.ros.org/kinetic/Installation
    • only filling out Ubuntu and Ubuntu armhf right now, we can fill in other experimental platforms later

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• Release ros-base packages into Kinetic
  • catkin @dirk-thomas
  • genmsg @dirk-thomas
  • gencpp @dirk-thomas
  • geneus @k-okada geneus: 2.2.5-1 in 'kinetic/distribution.yaml' [bloom] #10726
  • genlisp @dirk-thomas
  • genpy @dirk-thomas
  • roscpp_core @dirk-thomas
  • message_generation @dirk-thomas
  • message_runtime @dirk-thomas
  • rosbag_migration_rule @dirk-thomas
  • std_msgs @dirk-thomas
  • ros_comm_msgs @dirk-thomas
  • cmake_modules @wjwwood
  • rospack @dirk-thomas
  • ros @dirk-thomas
  • roslisp @dirk-thomas
  • ros_comm @dirk-thomas
  • rosconsole_bridge @dirk-thomas
  • common_msgs @tfoote
  • ros_tutorials @dirk-thomas (waiting for turtlesim icon, conversion to Qt5)
  • actionlib @wjwwood and @mikaelarguedas
  • angles @tfoote
  • bond_core @wjwwood and @mikaelarguedas
  • dynamic_reconfigure @wjwwood and @mikaelarguedas
  • class_loader @wjwwood and @mikaelarguedas
  • pluginlib @wjwwood and @mikaelarguedas
  • nodelet_core @wjwwood and @mikaelarguedas
  • common_tutorials @wjwwood

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• Announce availability of the Kinetic build farm @jacquelinekay
• Update mirror documentation (see https://github.com/ros-infrastructure/mirror/commits/master for examples)
• Announce logo design and kick off t-shirt campaign @tfoote

[mikepurvis]

In advance of the full Kinetic debs being ready, it's unfortunate that the independent packages like python-rosdep, python-rosinstall-generator, etc are not available for Wily and Xenial, so that users can get ahead of the game with testing Indigo and Jade packages on the newer versions of system deps.

[esteve]

bloom: ros-infrastructure/bloom#379
catkin_pkg: ros-infrastructure/catkin_pkg#135
python-rosdep: ros-infrastructure/rosdep#434
rosinstall_generator: ros-infrastructure/rosinstall_generator#32
rospkg: ros-infrastructure/rospkg#96

@mikepurvis sorry for the delay. Is there any other package that needs to be updated? Thanks.

[dirk-thomas]

@esteve Please look at the checklist from the previous releases for additional Python packages: e.g. #6435.

[dirk-thomas]

I have released: catkin, genmsg, gencpp, genlisp, genpy, roscpp_core, message_runtime, rosbag_migration_rule, and rospack. Currently I need to wait for a geneus before I can proceed.

[jacquelinekay]

@k-okada, any chance you could make a Kinetic release of geneus so that we can proceed with Kinetic core package releases? Many thanks.

[jacquelinekay]

my bad, I wasn't watching rosdistro and just noticed that Kei has already released geneus...

[k-okada]

as for Collada, we put deb for wily at
https://launchpad.net/~openrave/+archive/ubuntu/release/+sourcepub/6188757/+listing-archive-extra
https://launchpad.net/~openrave/+archive/ubuntu/release/+sourcepub/6188756/+listing-archive-extra
please copy this to ros repository.

it seems collada becomes default ubuntu package from xenial, so I think
we'll use default(ubuntu) version of collada for xenial and launch pad
version (from ros repository) for wily, it seems tricky, but better than
install two version of collada.
http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/libcollada-dom2.4-dp-dev

see
#10673
for rosdep keys

◉ Kei Okada

On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 10:55 AM, Jackie Kay notifications@github.com
wrote:

my bad, I wasn't watching rosdistro and just noticed that Kei has already
released geneus...

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[wjwwood]

I contacted Rosen about updating the openrave ppa, but if you guys already did it then I'll open a or later tonight to add it to our import rules.

[k-okada]

I haven't talked to Rosen directly, but pretty sure that he's super busy
and updated the deb for him.
Did you have any response from Rosen? If not, please go ahead.

◉ Kei Okada

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I contacted Rosen about updating the openrave ppa, but if you guys already
did it then I'll open a or later tonight to add it to our import rules.

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[wjwwood]

No nothing yet. I'll set it up.

[wjwwood]

I started the pr that would import collada-dom for Wily: ros-infrastructure/reprepro-updater#25

[dirk-thomas]

I have released: message_generation, std_msgs, ros_comm_msgs, ros, roslisp, ros_comm, rosconsole_bridge, and common_msgs.

In order to release ros_tutorials we need the Kinetic turtlesim icon and I will convert turtlesim to Qt5. But that should not block the release of most other downstream packages.

Update: I have created a kinetic-devel branch for ros_tutorials which uses Qt5.