Repository of package metadata

Some software packages don't provide their metadata in a machine readable format. To allow processing them in an automated fashion this repository makes these information available, e.g. for the command line tool colcon.

How to use the Information

To register this repository with colcon (using the identifier "default") invoke the following command:

colcon metadata add default https://raw.githubusercontent.com/colcon/colcon-metadata-repository/master/index.yaml

Afterwards as well as on a regular base fetch the latest content from the repository:

colcon metadata update default

How to contribute additional information

Initially fork this repository. For each contribution perform the following steps:

• Create or modify one or multiple files ending with .meta.

• Add any new files in alphabetical order to the index.yaml file.

• Run the lint.py script to ensure that the changes follow the recommended yaml style.

  • The script requires yamllint to be installed.

• Create a pull request with the changes.