Create new repository to hold templates and helper scripts

[ipa-nhg]

It would be great if we have a central (non-ros code) repository to hold templates for generic documentation, scripts to generate this documentation, rosinstall files....

Some related discussions:

• Add links to contribution guidelines using Githubs infrastructure #26 (comment)
• Migrate the package.xml files to format 2 #56 (comment)
• Add links to contribution guidelines using Githubs infrastructure #26
• Add license information badges to readme files #57
• Create PR and issue templates #39
• Document the status of the software (maintenance, ci builds, distro support..) #55

Some name proposals:

• ros_industrial_basics
• ros_industrial_helper
• ros_industrial_helper_tools
• ros_industrial_recommender

[gavanderhoorn]

I would actually suggest to create multiple repositories, each with a name that clearly identifies what it stores.

That way we don't have to come up with a generic name ("helper") and it's obvious what goes where.

As to the specific issues linked:

• Add license information badges to readme files #57 is linked because of the "license crawler", correct? We could leverage WIP: Add license introspection feature. This handles Ubuntu system pkg ros-infrastructure/rospkg#143 for the actual crawling. Not sure how much more automation we want to create for adding the badges: it's rather dependent on the current content of the readme where it should all go. It would make sense perhaps though to write a short Python script that could generate the Markdown snippets.

• Create PR and issue templates #39: at first I thought it wouldn't make sense to store a copy of PR and issue templates, but seeing as we can probably use the GH API to automate configuring the various repositories, it actually would.

• Document the status of the software (maintenance, ci builds, distro support..) #55: this could potentially be added to industrial_metapackages.

• Migrate the package.xml files to format 2 #56: same (industrial_metapackages is already about 'variants').

• Add links to contribution guidelines using Githubs infrastructure #26: we could put this in the same repository as the one for Create PR and issue templates #39.

[Levi-Armstrong]

@gavanderhoorn I have modifying the moveit_ci to be a little more generic to support the ros-industrial repositories which uses travis-ci directly instead of industrial-ci. Would you recommend creating a repository for this. It currently only two files 1 2?

[gavanderhoorn]

@gavanderhoorn I have modifying the moveit_ci to be a little more generic to support the ros-industrial repositories which uses travis-ci directly instead of industrial-ci. Would you recommend creating a repository for this. It currently only two files 1 2?

Can you provide a little more background as to what your motivation was? Would it not have been possible to make changes to industrial_ci instead of creating yet another variant of industrial_ci (which moveit_ci sort-of is)?

We might want to avoid duplication of effort here, as this would be the third repository/set of scripts that would need to be maintained.

[gavanderhoorn]

Somewhat later: I've created ros-industrial/wrid_scripts to store the script(s) used during last WRID.

[cbw36]

I'd like to work on this for WRID20, can I be assigned to it?

Also, can I get some insight into what specific documentation, scripts, and rosinstall files you are referencing so I can get started?