Issues

debbuild

• measure improvement (size of debs)

• ../Variants

diamondback alpha

• upgrade rosdistro to support multiextends
• create rosdistro file
• update create.py script to allow multi-distro release
• create diamondback svn tags

looking forward

• 4-month instead of 6-month iteration cycles?

  • Argument: the base has largely stabilized, so there is less-and-less difference between releases there. It currently takes ~2 release cycles to really deploy a feature (e.g. PointCloud2) due to the lag of stable release -> integrate. There is also a lot of pressure to get more in each release because it will be six months until the next platform release.

  • Pro: get new stuff out more quickly, requires steadier effort instead of 6-month, last-minute crush
  • Con: more platforms, more for us to potentially maintain
  • Enablers: mega-hudson, more static stacks.