Preparing for Kinetic Sync 2020-03-17

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We are due to sync today, but I plan to hold this sync to avoid extra buildfarm load for the Melodic rebuild ongoing here:

Preparing for Melodic sync 2020-03-20

I’m preparing to do another Melodic sync soon since there were two identified regressions in the last sync: dynamic_reconfigure and ros_comm. Both fixes have been merged, and the buildfarm is working on rebuilding everything. Therefore, I’m holding Melodic rosdistro PRs as of right now so we can do another sync early next week. The status of the build can be seen here: http://build.ros.org/view/Queue/ (basically any job that has an “M” in the front is a melodic job still waiting to be built o…

So I’ll execute the sync over the weekend once that has caught up.