Todo

List of jobs that we need to work on (sequentially). This organises our issue list and adds other odd jobs.

Terminology

• Catkin : the new ros build environment (same as we were using for fuerte, just version 1.0).
• Upstream : the original repo where I want to send patches when I don't have permissions to commit directly.
• Overlay : a ros-catkin source/build workspace that uses an underlay (compiled sources in a folder somewhere).
• e.g.Underlay = SDK, Overlay Project Workspace

Links

• Github ros-windows organisation stores:
• win_ros : our official build tools, dep scripts etc for windows.
• All other stacks are forked with patches waiting to go upstream.
• Tracking Changes - tracks our patches, forks, etc.
• Unstable Sources List - the sources we use for development/testing the SDK.
• Stable Sources List - tagged versions of the sources for an official release of SDK (currently not yet done).
• Ros Wiki

Todo List

To get started:

• Test and correct instructions for SDK Compile
• Test and correct instructions for Overlays
• Test thoroughly all the win_roscpp_tutorials and sdk bin tools (e.g. rosmsg, rostopic etc).
• Add windows os detection
• Wtf! Fix ipv6 issues for roswtf
• Subscribe to all winros wiki pages so you can see user changes.
• Subscribe to ros answers with winros tags for email notifications.
• Profile->Subscriptions->Entire Forum (tag filtered)->instantly
• Home Page->Interesting Tags->winros & win_ros
• Learn how to install/uninstall/modify win_python_build_tools (instructions)
• Ros Wiki:Contributing - porting existing stacks - start them (declspecs)
• Our Software Ports
• Ecl Ports
• Kobuki Driver Port
• Update the visual studio (or express) tutorials
• Post install script for installing all the .pdb's in a release
• Add an install command to winros_make (win_python_build_tools/scripts/winros_make.py), this should just be calling out to nmake install
• In the same install command, add another function to copy across .pdb files to the install folder.
• Some winros_create_xxx_pkg tools
• Tool for rosrun (currently bash)
• Is in the ros stack (https://github.com/ros/ros/tree/groovy-devel/tools/rosbash/scripts)
• Check rostime bug
• Ros Wiki pages for:
• Msvc SDK installation
• Msvc Visual Project Tutorial
• Msvc Message Creation Tutorial
• Contributing - installer/pip framework
• Contributing - different compilers (2012, 64 bit)
• Create the msvc_groovy.rosinstall with tags for stable release
• Packaging our first SDK release, tools to help with that.

Longer Term:

Don't worry too much about these unless we have a use case for them. Better to get other users to start helping.

• Work out what we need to upgrade to 2012 compilers.
• RQT Gui Framework - we'll probably tackle this 2013:2.

Building A New Version of Win Python Build Tools

• Uninstall your current .msi version.
• Make some changes in winros/rosdeps/win_python_build_tools.
• Run make install
• When finished
• Run make uninstall
• Run make upload (you'll probably need windows ssh setup and password access to our file server)