Dear ACE developers,<br><br>For your information, YARP is a communication infrastructure that uses ACE. If you are interested in supporting it, please, feel free to contact me. YARP stands for <b>Yet Another Robot Platform</b>. This description is quite modest, there is no other robot platform that I know off. Its upstream developers are very friendly and eager to apply patches. I hope it's not rude to send this email. There are not a lot of roboticists who are also DDs. :-)<br>
<br>I would like to make use of the opportunity to thank you for your software and packaging efforts.<br><br>Kind regards,<br><br>Anne<br><br>PS: This is the email I sent to debian-mentors.<br><pre><br>I am looking for a sponsor for my package "yarp".<br>
<br>* Package name : yarp<br> Version : 2.3.0-1<br> Upstream Author : Paul Fitzpatrick <<a href="mailto:paulfitz@alum.mit.edu">paulfitz@alum.mit.edu</a>><br>* URL : <a href="http://eris.liralab.it/yarp/" target="_blank">http://eris.liralab.it/yarp/</a><br>
* License : GNU LGPLv2.1 (unless otherwise stated)<br> Section : net<br><br>It builds these binary packages:<br>libyarp - Library support for YARP network of ports and devices<br>libyarp-dev - Header files for YARP library<br>
<br>libyarp-dev0 - YARP network of devices<br>libyarp-init0 - YARP network initialisation<br>libyarp-os0 - YARP network of ports<br>libyarp-sig0 - YARP image processing interfaces<br>yarp-bin - CLI to YARP network of ports and devices<br>
<br>yarp-doc - Documentation for YARP library<br>yarp-view - Graphical viewer for data on the YARP network<br><br>The package appears to be lintian clean. Upstream is eager to apply patches.<br><br>My motivation for maintaining this package is: YARP (Yet Another Robot Platform) is unique<br>
<br> in its kind. It provides a general interface to allow for TCP, UDP, shared memory, and <br> multicast communication. We intend to use it in Robot3D, a simulator for modular robots,<br> at <a href="https://launchpad.net/robot3d" target="_blank">https://launchpad.net/robot3d</a>. Screenshots can be seen at <a href="http://www.robotcognition.eu/" target="_blank">http://www.robotcognition.eu/</a><br>
<br> Robot3D builds on Delta3D (<a href="http://www.delta3d.org/" target="_blank">http://www.delta3d.org</a>, also in need for sponsoring). Using <br> YARP Robot3D can be a real competitor for Player/Stage with respect to pluggability.<br>
<br><br>The package can be found on <a href="http://mentors.debian.net/" target="_blank">mentors.debian.net</a>:<br>- URL: <a href="http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/y/yarp" target="_blank">http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/y/yarp</a><br>
- Source repository: deb-src <a href="http://mentors.debian.net/debian" target="_blank">http://mentors.debian.net/debian</a> unstable main contrib non-free<br><br>- dget <a href="http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/y/yarp/yarp_2.3.0-1.dsc" target="_blank">http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/y/yarp/yarp_2.3.0-1.dsc</a><br>
<br>I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me.<br><br><br>Kind regards<br> Anne van Rossum</pre><br>