Binary releases to the ROS buildfarm

[Timple]

Thank you for creating these drivers!

Would it be possible to distribute them to the ROS buildfarm? Using bloom for the current active ROS2 distributions?

[daniel4ohw]

Hello @Timple,
thank you very much for your feedback.
Of course it is the easiest for the users if the packages are built by the ROS buildfarm.
We are planning to realize this, but we still have issues that have a higher priority.
We will try to do it soon.
Greetings Daniel

[daniel4ohw]

Hello @Timple,
Good news. Today we created the pull request to include our packages in the ROS build farm.
Hopefully the review will be processed quickly.
PR rosdistro
Best regards
Daniel

[Timple]

Awesome!
Although we're using iron at the moment 🙂

[daniel4ohw]

@Timple which sensor are you using?

[Timple]

We're using the off_highway_radar package

[daniel4ohw]

Hi @Timple
we still have to wait with the build farm integration.
We are currently working on changes that will result in changes to the API/ABI....
Additionally as of now we will primarily support LTS distributions.

[Timple]

Well, in that case, we're already in the process of migrating towards Jazzy 😎

I believe the changes you desired are already performed?

[daniel4ohw]

Apologies for the delay in updating you.
I’m pleased to share that, as of the end of last week, our package is now available for testing.
https://repo.ros2.org/status_page/humble_default.html?q=off-highway

[daniel4ohw]

@Timple
We test our node from time to time with rolling. Unfortunately, we can currently only support one distribution.
Are you experiencing any issues with Jazzy?

[Timple]

It builds fine from source. So I don't see a reason to only support one distribution 🙂. As the codebase actually stays identical.

[daniel4ohw]

For us, it is mainly the testing effort. But we are working on improving it....

[Timple]

Fair enough. Shouldn't testing be done on the latest LTS? 😉

But I understand, we'll wait it out.

[Timple]

For what it's worth: since #9 this package is able to compile on the buildfarm. So the same humble-devel branch can be released on jazzy without maintaining a duplicate codebase.