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Official ROS Driver for DepthAI Sensors.
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[Feature-Request] Rolling release? #457

Open MatthijsBurgh opened 7 months ago

MatthijsBurgh commented 7 months ago

Start with the why:

I am running ROS2 rolling. I need moveit_py, which is not on Humble. So therefore I need rolling, as I want to use U22. U23 is not desired as it isn't LTS.

Move to the what:

A release on rolling

Move to the how:

Release on rolling 😉

Serafadam commented 7 months ago

Hi @MatthijsBurgh , at this moment we only support latest stable releases (Humble, Iron, Noetic). We could create a separate branch for rolling, but for now it would have to be community-supported.

MatthijsBurgh commented 7 months ago

I don't see a reason to not release the current main branch, which you release to Iron, to release it to rolling. As that is kind of the idea of the rolling distro.

ruffsl commented 1 month ago

We could create a separate branch for rolling, but for now it would have to be community-supported.

@Serafadam , I would think there'd be a financial incentive to officially support rolling as well, given how it'd help users keep up to date with the latest supported LTS. The ROS 2 Jazzy release is open for public testing, yet I could not find this package available through the public build farm. It's rather painful when folks are held back from critical security platform upgrades and ROS bug fixes because a component of the stack has not been maintained for the latest LTS. If rolling was actively maintained, then binary package releases for latest LTS releases would be an automated by product, unblocking many of end users and business partners.

at this moment we only support latest stable releases (Humble, Iron, Noetic)

Speaking of LTS releases, hows support for Jazzy coming along? I got this repo to compile locally, but not after patching a large number of (deprecated?) OpenCV header paths, and fixing undeclared Cmake depacies for ament_index_cpp. Any ETA for Jazzy given it's release is almost upon us? I could open some drive by PRs, but this repo has no CONTRIBUTING file as a guide. Thanks!

G-Levine commented 1 month ago

@ruffsl Do you have your changes documented anywhere? I'm currently trying to get it to build on rolling, and it'd be incredibly helpful to see how you did it.

ruffsl commented 1 month ago

@G-Levine , I didn't notice at first that there was an Iron branch here at first, given the number of branches here and the default branch still being pinned to Humble. So the changes for building are even fewer:

Haven't tested my Jazzy build of this just yet, as I'm still just getting my CI rolled over to Ubuntu Noble.