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Published inDec 2015
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Lentin Joseph
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Lentin Joseph is an author and robotics entrepreneur from India. He runs a robotics software company called Qbotics Labs in India. He has 7 years of experience in the robotics domain primarily in ROS, OpenCV, and PCL. He has authored four books in ROS, namely, Learning Robotics using Python, Mastering ROS for Robotics Programming, ROS Robotics Projects, and Robot Operating System for Absolute Beginners. He is currently pursuing his master's in Robotics from India and is also doing research at Robotics Institute, CMU, USA.
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Best practices in the ROS package


Following are the key points while creating and maintaining a package:

  • Version Control: ROS supports version control using Git, Mercurial, and Subversion. We can host our code in GitHub and Bit bucket. Most of the ROS packages are in GitHub.

  • Packaging: Inside a ROS catkin package, there will be a package.xml, and this file should contain the author name, description, and license. The following is an example of a package.xml:

    <?xml version="1.0"?>
    <package>
      <name>roscpp_tutorials</name>
    
      <version>0.6.1</version>
    
      <description>
        This package attempts to show the features of ROS step-by-step,
        including using messages, servers, parameters, etc.
      </description>
    
      <maintainer email="dthomas@osrfoundation.org">Dirk Thomas</maintainer>
    
      <license>BSD</license>
    
      <url type="website">http://www.ros.org/wiki/roscpp_tutorials</url>
      <url type="bugtracker">https...
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Lentin Joseph

Lentin Joseph is an author and robotics entrepreneur from India. He runs a robotics software company called Qbotics Labs in India. He has 7 years of experience in the robotics domain primarily in ROS, OpenCV, and PCL. He has authored four books in ROS, namely, Learning Robotics using Python, Mastering ROS for Robotics Programming, ROS Robotics Projects, and Robot Operating System for Absolute Beginners. He is currently pursuing his master's in Robotics from India and is also doing research at Robotics Institute, CMU, USA.
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