Humble release thread

[sea-bass]

As @rr-tom-noble suggested, we can use this thread to continue discussing Humble releases of MoveIt 2.

As of #3012, a release 2.5.6 was cut.

However, there are already a few more backports/fixes on the Humble branch, and some more upcoming ones.

I would say as a first discussion, we should establish when all these desired changes are in good shape to kick off a 2.5.7. I'd roughly aim for end of 2024, so a month or so from now? Of course, depending on the actual changes needed and when that can be done.

[TSNoble]

Thanks for creating this thread, and end of December sounds good to me 👍

[sea-bass]

BTW (@TSNoble), seems like MoveIt 2.5.6 made it in for the Humble sync that will be released in a few days: https://discourse.ros.org/t/preparing-for-humble-sync-and-patch-release-2024-12-02/40922

[sea-bass]

Since #1821 fixes a bug, I'm inclined for us to get 2.5.7 in for the next Humble sync.

@TSNoble (or anyone else), do you have any more Humble PRs coming in in the next few days? Probably aiming to have the new release before ~Christmas (Dec 25).

[TSNoble]

None from me (planning to finish off my unit test PR, but on Christmas leave at the moment) 🙂

[sea-bass]

Ah, looks like I just missed it. There was another Humble sync on December 20. Will catch the next one in the new year.

[sea-bass]

2.5.7 is queued up in rosdistro: ros/rosdistro#44074

[sea-bass]

I think it's time for 2.5.8 to happen soon -- see https://github.com/orgs/moveit/discussions/3310#discussioncomment-12061924 for more details.

[sea-bass]

2.5.8 is queued up in rosdistro : ros/rosdistro#44410

[riv-tnoble]

@sea-bass Thank you for keeping this alive! Although I've been less active recently, it's been wonderful being able to receive more frequent updates 🙂

[sea-bass]

I just had to release Rolling and Jazzy for legitimate reasons, and simply didn't want to leave old Humble out.

2.5.9 is queued up: ros/rosdistro#45196