ROS Noetic Ninjemys Release

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Would it be possible in future releases to have a docker image available that’s like noetic-freeze

I think that type of temporary tag would have to be self hosted somewhere, as they wouldn’t be something we could push upstream into the official library.

For some repos, we either just failed to have CI during that period

This should get easier with the upcoming of the rolling release distro, as a nice middle ground between the volatility of nightly and the lag of the latest stable release. We are hoping to host the rolling release as a docker library tag as well.

ROS 2 Rolling distribution plans

As folks may recall from the earlier post. We are setting up a rolling ROS 2 distribution. We want to do this primarily to reduce the amount of labor required from package maintainers when bootstrapping a new ROS 2 release. ROS 2 Foxy is already in development and is being prepared in the same manner as the distributions before it: Repositories must be bloomed explicitly for Foxy once the dependencies for each package in the repository are available. Once Foxy is released, we will “roll” the …