From 877157a0d91788a7700221d87232d412cb3c1ef4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Katherine Scott Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2024 11:05:32 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Add note for ROS users. (#1941) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit * update rules_boost to latest version (#1898) Signed-off-by: Xùdōng Yáng Signed-off-by: kscottz * Add note for ROS users. Signed-off-by: kscottz * spelling errors. Signed-off-by: kscottz --------- Signed-off-by: Xùdōng Yáng Signed-off-by: kscottz Co-authored-by: Xùdōng Yáng --- README.rst | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst index 2bdf8aa00..a1f8b9c94 100644 --- a/README.rst +++ b/README.rst @@ -30,6 +30,23 @@ configurations. .. _Cartographer: https://github.com/cartographer-project/cartographer .. _SLAM: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simultaneous_localization_and_mapping +A Note for ROS Users +==================== + +**Cartographer is no longer actively maintained.** +On rare occasions critical pull requests may be merged, but no new development is currently taking place, including issue response. +If you are installing Cartographer in ROS 1 / ROS 2 using a binary package that package is a fork of this repository. +The ROS fork of Cartographer is only maintained in a limited capacity. +No new development takes place on this fork, but pull requests may be merged at the maintainers' discretion. + +The ROS fork of Cartographer, and the ROS wrapper library, can be found at these locations: + +- `Cartographer Fork `_ +- `Cartographer ROS `_ + +Additional discussion can be found in `this ROS Discourse thread`_. + + Getting started ===============