• Submitting a package for indexing

  • This is not specifically bloom related but is a related task to the first time release. Making the release below will prompt to add the package source to the index too.

• Releasing a package for the first time

  • Start with this tutorial if the packages you want to release have not been released previously.

• Releasing a new version of a catkin package

  • Start with this tutorial if the packages you want to release have been released before.

• Releasing a third party package

• Releasing for a new ROS distro

• Running a pre-release test

• Changing the default build flags for a package

If you have two factor authorization enabled on github, and you want bloom to be able to manually create pull requests for you:

• Manually authorizing bloom to create rosdistro PRs on github

Some helpful information to maintain a ROS package which are not directly related to bloom:

• Register a GitHub repository for pull request testing

Here are some unofficial notes and tutorials which can provided additional help if you are having trouble releasing:

• Full guide for releasing with catkin (by GaelEcorchard)