roslaunch - pass through command-line args to the xmlloader when using the API (kinetic)

[srsidd]

#1115 enables the user to pass command-line args to the xml loader from lunar and upwards. Going through some of the discussions it seems the design was made in such a way that the feature is fully backwards-compatible and minimal changes were made to add the new functionality.

Is there a plan to back port this to Kinetic?

[dirk-thomas]

In the PR #1115 you will find a referenced ticket #1323 in which all changes from lunar-devel for a specific time span were considered for backporting. For this patch the following is noted:

pass through command-line args to the xmlloader when using the API #1115

• new feature, not backported

[srsidd]

I see. Is there a process defined on how to back port a feature? I could look into it if it's cherry picking the specific commits from the lunar-dev into the kinetic-dev branch.

[dirk-thomas]

Is there a process defined on how to back port a feature?

If there is not strong reason to backport a feature (e.g. significantly ease of downstream package maintenance) feature are not being backported. One main goal of a released distribution is stability and therefore "unnecessary" changes are avoided as much as possible.