For the initial development of ROS 2 we used the forked repo ros2/rosdistro in order to keep it separate from ros/rosdistro. This enabled us to iterate quickly on standard / format changes without affecting the stability of ROS 1 distributions.
Since that initial phase a lot of the involved pieces have stabilized and also aligned with ROS 1. E.g. both repos use REP 153 now and package manifests are consistently parsed by catkin_pkg (even though that naming is a bit confusing in the context of ROS 2).
Therefore it is time to reintegrate the two repos. Please see #492 for more details. We will start with the transition soon.
For users this change should be transparent (if we didn’t miss anything). And maintainers of ROS 2 packages won’t need to set a custom ROSDISTRO_INDEX_URL anymore which will get rid of the only custom step for blooming ROS 2 packages.
If you notice any issues related to this change please let us know here or on the references ticket.
As the reference ticket is now on an archived repository, please report any issues here or open a