Releasing your ROS package

After creating a ROS package in GitHub, we can officially release our package. ROS provides detailed steps to release the ROS package using a tool called bloom (http://ros-infrastructure.github.io/bloom/). Bloom is a release automation tool, designed to make platform-specific releases from the source projects. Bloom is designed to work best with the catkin project.

The prerequisites for releasing the package are as follows:

• Install the Bloom tool
• Create a Git repository for the current package
• Create an empty Git repository for the release

The following command will install bloom in Ubuntu:

$ sudo apt-get install python-bloom  

Create a Git repository for the current package. The repository that has the package is called the upstream repository. Here, we already created a repository at https://github.com/jocacace/mastering_ros_demo_pkg.

Create an empty...