Re: Looking for sponsor for ROS packages (robotic framework)
Hi Jochen and Leopold,
You both helped me a while ago with installing ROS and Gazebo.
I'm a bit stretched with my time, but I will be following your progress and try to at least test installing. I use Machinekit which runs on debian (others distros as well) and in the process of getting into ROS not having to have to switch to Ubuntu and back again would be a big plus (also for other users).
Regards
Bas
> On 09 Oct 2015, at 09:42, Jochen Sprickerhof <jochen@sprickerhof.de> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> we (me and Leopold Palomo) have done a lot of work to bring ROS (Robot
> Operating System; free robot middleware used in many universities and
> companies world wide, see [1]) to Debian. ROS contains a ton of software
> and there exists Ubuntu packages provided by upstream installing
> everything into /opt. We started creating new policy compliant packages
> here [2].
>
> * We are looking for DDs to sponsor the initial uploads. *
>
> If you want to help with the packages, try them or find a bug while
> reviewing them, please contact us. You can find the current state and
> more information in the wiki [3].
>
> ROS is a big project and it will take quite an effort to get it into
> Debian, but it's separated into many small packages, which makes it
> doable. We have talked to upstream already and they support us as well.
>
> Cheers
>
> Jochen and Leo
>
> [1] http://www.ros.org
> [2] https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/debian-science/packages/ros
> [3] https://wiki.debian.org/DebianScience/Robotics/ROS
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