From 6939cb6184842a2d90b6f824aa0ec102e0da2c3c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: kscottz Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2023 11:27:08 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Add note for ROS users. --- README.rst | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst index 2bdf8aa00..d2be15621 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+A Note for ROS Users +==================== + +**Cartographer is no longer actively maintained.** +On rare occassions critical pull requests may be merged, but no new development is currently taking place, including issue response.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' disretion. + +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 ===============