后续版本

本指南介绍如何发布之前已发布的 ROS 包的新版本。

成为发布团队的一员

如果您不属于对发布存储库具有写权限的发布团队,请按照 加入发布团队 操作。

安装依赖项

Install tools that you will use in the upcoming steps according to your platform:

sudo apt install python3-bloom python3-catkin-pkg

Make sure you have rosdep initialized:

sudo rosdep init
rosdep update

Note that the rosdep init command may fail if it has already been initialized in the past; this can safely be ignored.

设置个人访问令牌

Warning

If the file ~/.config/bloom exists on your computer, it is likely that you have done this before so you should skip this section.

During the release process, multiple HTTPS Git operations will be performed that require password authentication. To avoid being repeatedly asked for a password, a Personal Access Token (PAT) will be set up. If you have multi-factor authentication setup on your GitHub account, you must setup a Personal Access Token.

Create a Personal Access Token by:

  1. Log in to GitHub and go to Personal access tokens.

  2. Click the Generate new token button.

  3. In the dropdown, select Generate new token (classic)

  4. Set Note to something like Bloom token.

  5. Set Expiration to No expiration.

  6. Tick the public_repo and workflow checkboxes.

  7. Click the Generate token button.

After you have created the token, you will end up back at the Personal access tokens page. Copy the alphanumeric token that is highlighted in green.

Save your GitHub username and PAT to a new file called ~/.config/bloom, with the format below:

{
   "github_user": "<your-github-username>",
   "oauth_token": "<token-you-created-for-bloom>"
}

确保存储库是最新的

Make sure that:

  • Your repository is hosted on a remote such as GitHub.

  • You have a clone of the repository on your computer and are on the right branch.

  • Both the remote repository and your clone are up-to-date.

更新变更日志

对于您的用户和开发人员,请保持变更日志简洁且最新。

catkin_generate_changelog

Open all CHANGELOG.rst files in an editor. You will see that catkin_generate_changelog has auto-generated a forthcoming section with notes from commit messages:

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Changelog for package your_package
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Forthcoming
-----------
* you can modify this commit message
* and this

Clean up the list of commit messages to concisely convey the notable changes that have been made to the packages since the last release, and commit all the CHANGELOG.rst files. Do not modify the Forthcoming header.

升级软件包版本

Every release of the package must have a unique version number higher than the previous release. Run:

catkin_prepare_release

which performs the following:

  1. increases the package version in package.xml

  2. replaces the heading Forthcoming with version (date) (eg. 0.0.1 (2022-01-08)) in CHANGELOG.rst

  3. commits those changes

  4. creates a tag (eg. 0.0.1)

  5. pushes the changes and the tag to your remote repository

Note

By default the patch version of the package is incremented, such as from 0.0.0 to 0.0.1. To increment the minor or major version instead, run catkin_prepare_release --bump minor or catkin_prepare_release --bump major. For more details, see catkin_prepare_release --help.

Bloom Release

运行以下命令,将“my_repo”替换为包含软件包的存储库的名称:

bloom-release --rosdistro rolling my_repo

Bloom 将自动为您针对 rosdistro 创建拉取请求。

后续步骤

Once your pull request has been submitted, usually within one or two days, one of the maintainers of rosdistro will review and merge your Pull Request. If your package build is successful, in 24-48 hours your packages will become available in the ros-testing repository, where you can test your pre-release binaries.

Approximately every two to four weeks, the distribution’s release manager manually synchronizes the contents of ros-testing into the main ROS repository. This is when your packages actually become available to the rest of the ROS community. To get updates on when the next synchronization (sync) is coming, subscribe to the Packaging and Release Management Category on ROS Discourse.