We are now less than three weeks from the release of ROS 2 Kilted Kaiju. As we traditionally announce the name of the following distribution when a new distribution is released, it’s time to start thinking about the next release after Kilted Kaiju.
Following tradition, the next ROS 2 release name will be an adjective starting with L followed by a turtle-related word or name, also starting with L.
Important to note that L-turtle will be an LTS release spanning 5 years.
Here are the existing ROS 2 names and code names.
Ardent Apalone - ardent
Bouncy Bolson - bouncy
Crystal Clemmys - crystal
Dashing Diademata - dashing
Eloquent Elusor - eloquent
Foxy Fitzroy - foxy
Galactic Geochelone - galactic
Humble Hawksbill - humble
Iron Irwini - iron
Jazzy Jalisco - jazzy
Kilted Kaiju - kilted
And here are the ROS 1 names and code names.
Boxturtle - boxturtle
C Turtle - cturtle
Diamondback - diamondback
Electric Emys - electric
Fuerte - fuerte
Groovy Galapagos - groovy
Hydro Medusa - hydro
Indigo Igloo - indigo
Jade Turtle - jade
Kinetic Kame - kinetic
Lunar Loggerhead - lunar
Melodic Morenia - melodic
Noetic Ninjemys - noetic
To get your namestorming going, here are some useful lists.
I don’t want to cramp people having fun, but I want to once again remind everyone that, for copyright reasons, producing an AI-generated image to show your suggestion makes it harder for us to choose that name. If our artist produces an image for the name that is similar enough, the OSRF could be accused of copyright infringement. Whether or not copyright infringement is legally provable, the risk of needing to spend money and resources on a copyright lawsuit is the problem.