Preparing for Melodic sync 2020-07-01

Packaging and Release Management Melodic
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There are currently ten regressions and 121 packages ready to sync. The 10 regressions, though, probably all boil down to http://build.ros.org/view/Mbin_uB64/job/Mbin_uB64__pilz_testutils__ubuntu_bionic_amd64__binary/ failing to build. Except for fixes for those regressions, I plan to hold releases starting end of day today, July 1, with a sync in the middle of next week.

@agutenkunst @jschleicher The regression looks to be in pilz_testutils. There also looks to be a fix in the source repository already, so we just need a new release. Otherwise, I’ll revert the last update to pilz_robot to before the regression.

Please comment here if there are any other outstanding issues I should know about before performing the sync.

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@clalancette Yes, the build should be fixed in github already and we’ll release today or tomorrow.

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@clalancette https://github.com/ros/rosdistro/pull/25656 contains the fix for the Issue with pilz_testutils

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Excellent, it looks like this fixed it. Thanks for the update!

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The sync is out.

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@clalancette We wrote ROS tutorials on Japanese tech magazine, which will be published in Aug 7th (https://toragi.cqpub.co.jp/tabid/120/Default.aspx). It depends on latest rtmros_nextage (0.8.3-3) so It would be nice if we can get that in next sync.