From 129b6522498f9396e9292359d7e4e81143043eea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tully Foote Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2016 00:07:07 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Update CONTRIBUTING.md with guidelines for rosdep submissions. (#11855) --- CONTRIBUTING.md | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md index 99d8e95dbb4c4..5e79b1f1134c2 100644 --- a/CONTRIBUTING.md +++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md @@ -30,6 +30,11 @@ There is a guide for submitting rosdep keys [here](http://docs.ros.org/independe Updates to rosdep rules require the review of two people. This will usually means that it needs a +1, and then it can be merged by a different person. +For convenience in reviewing please link to the web listings of packages such as on http://packages.ubuntu.com, http://packages.debian.org, and https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packages/ or if a pip package pypi.python.org. + +Please also briefly describe the package being added and what use case you want to use it for. +It's valuable to have a record of the packages as submitted and their intended purpose for clarity in the future so that if there's a conflict there's information to fall back on instead of speculation about the original use cases. + How to submit pull requests ---------------------------