New Kinetic Release

[DLu]

There are a handful of backports on the kinetic branch dating back to early 2019 that have not been released for kinetic.

It would be useful to cut a new release for these features.

[ros-discourse]

This issue has been mentioned on ROS Discourse. There might be relevant details there:

https://discourse.ros.org/t/preparing-for-kinetic-sync-2020-06-25/15074/2

[DLu]

Paging @dirk-thomas

[ros-discourse]

This issue has been mentioned on ROS Discourse. There might be relevant details there:

https://discourse.ros.org/t/preparing-for-kinetic-sync-2020-07-05/15250/2

[dirk-thomas]

I understand the desire to get a new Kinetic release of ros_comm out but in the light of #1496 and me being the only person at Open Robotics doing ROS 1 maintenance work on ROS core packages I unfortunately can't give an estimate when I will be able to catch up with Kinetic backports and a release. The little amount of time I can use towards maintenance is usually used by work for newer distros. I know this is not a satisfying answer but I just wanted to describe how it is and give a realistic expectation.

[DLu]

@dirk-thomas I think we both understand the burdens of maintaining core ROS software. However, I'm not asking for additional backports, but just release of the repo as-is. I do not have the permissions to make the release, otherwise I would do it myself. I believe not doing the release would be a disservice to past-Dirk who already worked hard reviewing and merging previous PRs

[DLu]

It appears as though I have been given permissions to make the release. Any objection to me doing that next week?

[dirk-thomas]

It appears as though I have been given permissions to make the release. Any objection to me doing that next week?

I don't know if anything has changed regarding permissions recently. Please do no make a release yourself without the maintainer of the repository. I will do a release when I find the time and will try to get to it within the next weeks.

[DLu]

[dirk-thomas]

See #2015 for a list of all considered and backported changes.

Waiting if #1284 gets an update to be included in the upcoming patch release.

[dirk-thomas]

And finally the new patch release is on the way: ros/rosdistro#26148.

[DLu]