Claiming maintainership for geographic info in ROS2

smac · 2019-09-10T17:21:00.381Z

Per the instructions, I’ve tried to reach out to maintainers over the repo without response in trying to maintain / update for ROS2. I’d like to take over maintainership or be added to the https://github.com/ros-geographic-info organization so I can keep it moving forward for ROS2. This is now blocking important packages like robot_localization which more or less blocks all of navigation on hardware in ROS2.

tfoote · 2019-09-10T19:00:32.498Z

For reference can you point to your attempted communications with the maintainers. It’s also valuable to mention them in these communications if they have an account. I don’t think Jack has an account but @bmagyar does.

ruffsl · 2019-09-10T19:14:32.155Z

tfoote:

I don’t think Jack has an account

Jack O’Quin’s user handel is @joq , last posted about mar 2018.

smac · 2019-09-10T19:56:43.147Z

Communication has been here https://github.com/ros-geographic-info/geographic_info/pull/28

Thanks for the tagging!

bmagyar · 2019-09-11T06:00:02.985Z

Hey guys,
Thanks for the ping. Unfortunately I can’t dedicate time to ROS2 geographic info…
I’d also prefer to be made an owner, unfortunately I’m only a member so I can’t add new people to the org.

I’ve sent an email to Jack though

IanTheEngineer · 2019-09-11T22:50:00.441Z

thanks for the email to Jack!

clalancette · 2019-09-16T20:41:36.483Z

@smac I’ve now invited you as a member to the ros-geographic-info organization. Let me know if that works for you.

smac · 2019-09-16T22:48:30.101Z

@clalancette thanks! Adding to the org didn’t give me write access to the repos. Can you add me to at least geographic_info and its release repository so I can get ROS2 binaries out?

clalancette · 2019-09-17T12:14:52.030Z

That’s annoying, I thought it would. Anyway, I just added you to the “Developers” team under ros-geographic-info, and I think that should give you write access to all of the repositories. Again, please let me know if it doesn’t and I’ll click more buttons .

smac · 2019-09-17T17:54:18.872Z

Ah, it is now. Thanks for the assistance.

smac · 2019-09-17T21:08:19.000Z

May I also suggest an icon for the organization? I was bored over lunch and it doesn’t have one.

tfoote · 2019-09-18T00:00:59.629Z

An updated logo would be fun, but I might suggest that one might have a bit of a trademark collision, and would likely not make sense to a worldwide audience

When one’s picked it would be great to add it over here too: https://github.com/ros-infrastructure/artwork/tree/master/orgunits

ruffsl · 2019-09-18T00:30:07.769Z

tfoote:

a bit of a trademark collision

yea… Perhaps replacing the center circle with a globe or cartoon of blue marble would work.

smac · 2019-09-18T00:30:31.456Z

What’s life without a little trademark infringement?

@tfoote how about this? I made sure the base image was commercial/free/attributeless.

Edit: @ruffsl just beat me with your comment by seconds

smac · 2019-09-18T23:45:46.717Z

@clalancette do you mind updating the image on the org? Its been accepted into ros-infra/artwork.

I also don’t have permissions for that

clalancette · 2019-09-19T11:41:34.009Z

smac:

@clalancette do you mind updating the image on the org? Its been accepted into ros-infra/artwork.

I’ve set it as the “avatar” picture for the ros-geographic-info organization. Let me know if I need to do anything else.