[ros-dev] Trunk. Development. Testing.

[James Tabor]

Thomas Weidenmueller wrote:
> art yerkes wrote:
> 
> 
>>We need a stable branch, or we need to branch dangerous edits.  There's
>>no other choice imo.  We can live with broken branches.  We can't live
>>with a 100% nonworking operating system in trunk.
>> 
>>
> 
> I can only second that. Recently I haven't had a lot of time for ROS, I
> have only a few hours I can use each week, but whenever I want to work
> something (yes, I'd like to test it on a running system) there's almost
> always only two scenarios:
> 
> 1. ROS doesn't build (ok, I use gcc4, my fault)
> 2. ROS doesn't boot
> 
> I've been fixing compiling issues because I'm one of the few people who
> use a more recent version of GCC. This sometimes requires quite some
> time, but I can live with it. But when I have to fix or debug broken
I know this is a big thing to ask,,, how hard is it to update to gcc 4.x?
So we can help.
> code first, most of my time is gone, or I don't even have the motivation
> to fix it in the first place because I'd not get to work on things I'd
> like to, and then next time I get a chance to work on my things I'd have
> to go through the same procedure again. I like my tree to be up to date,
> but it's been impossible to work on it recently. It's a bit better now
> than it used to be a couple of months ago, but I remember the days where
> trunk was generally in a rather stable state. Of course it's sometimes
> broken, but we need to make sure things actually compile and that
> changes are tested sufficiently (Yes, many of my recent changes haven't
> been tested in ROS because I haven't been able to most of the time). I'm
> not perfect myself, neither I blame just one person. We all need to work
> harder on keeping trunk a little bit more stable.
> 
> - Thomas
>