Indigo :: First Time Release

Links & Resources

• Ros Wiki - First Time Release

Preparation

The following uses the hypothetical repo foo.

• Create a new repository called foo-release.
• Initialise it with a README.
• Clone the release repository locally and configure it with bloom for indigo.

> git clone https://github.com/yujinrobot-release/foo-release

Configure

> cd foo-release
> bloom-release --rosdistro indigo --track indigo foo --edit

• First provide a link to the release repo to get it started:
• https://github.com/yujinrobot-release/foo-release.git
• Repository Name: foo
• Upstream Repository URI: url to your code repo
• e.g. https://github.com/stonier/foo.git
• Version: :{auto}
• Release Tag: :{version}
• Upstream Devel Branch: usually 'indigo'
• ROS Distro : indigo
• Patches Directory : None
• Release Repository Push URL: None (will use your supplied release URI by default)
• Releasing Complete, push? : yes
• Add Documentation? : yes if you have sphinx/doxygen organised, no otherwise.
• Add Source Information? : yes, lets you test pre-releases off the latest and adds repo links on the ros wiki page
• Add Maintenance Status? : yes, either 'maintained' or 'developed'.