camera_info_manager_py: 1.0.0-1 in 'jazzy/distribution.yaml' [bloom]

[civerachb-cpr]

Increasing version of package(s) in repository camera_info_manager_py to 1.0.0-1:

• upstream repository: https://github.com/clearpathrobotics/camera_info_manager_py.git
• release repository: https://github.com/clearpath-gbp/camera_info_manager_py-release.git
• distro file: jazzy/distribution.yaml
• bloom version: 0.12.0
• previous version for package: null

camera_info_manager_py

* Ros2 (#2 <https://github.com/clearpathrobotics/camera_info_manager_py/issues/2>)
  * Run magic converter
  * Ament_python package
  * Fix some imports
  * Remove references to cpp camera info manager.
  Disable tests
  * Linting
  * Fully Remove old tests
  * Add lint tests
  * Final tests
  * Remove pep257 from depends
* Contributors: Michael Hosmar

[marcoag]

It seems this is is being released from a fork of the original repo we have in other distros (under ros-perception org), is there any reason for that?

[civerachb-cpr]

The original ros-perception repo seems to have been abandoned? The last commit on that repo was in 2016, and it hasn't been bloomed for any recent ROS 1 nor ROS 2 distributions.

If the old ros-perception maintainers are still active and want to create the appropriate branches for us to open merge requests we'd be happy to do that. But given the lack of activity on that repo this seemed like the more expeditious route.

Specifically we're blooming this as it's a dependency of the axis_camera packages that have not been available as binaries for a very long time. We've updated those packages to support Humble and Jazzy, but need to get this dependency sorted out before we can bloom the camera driver.

[sloretz]

@jack-oquin FYI. Thoughts on this fork adding ROS 2 support to camera_info_manager_py?

[ahcorde]

@civerachb-cpr what's about adding this package to image_common ? camera_info_manager_py is a Python wrapper of camera_info_manager. I would say it is the better place to locate this package if the mantainer is not responding anymore. Do you mind to open a PR there ?

[civerachb-cpr]

@civerachb-cpr what's about adding this package to image_common ? camera_info_manager_py is a Python wrapper of camera_info_manager. I would say it is the better place to locate this package if the mantainer is not responding anymore. Do you mind to open a PR there ?

I've created an issue on image_common asking if they're willing to take ownership of the package and are open to your proposal: ros-perception/image_common#331

I'm hesitant to just assign it to them, since that implies they're become responsible for maintaining the Python package, which may not be something they're willing to do.