# ROS News for the week of August 7th, 2023

**URL:** <https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-news-for-the-week-of-august-7th-2023/32837>\
**Category:** Community News\
**Tags:** weekly-update\
**Created:** [August 11, 2023, 7:29pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-news-for-the-week-of-august-7th-2023/32837 "2023-08-11T19:29:14Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 17, 2023, 6:14am UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-news-for-the-week-of-august-7th-2023/32837/6 "2023-08-17T06:14:23Z")

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> [@gavanderhoorn](#):
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> And, minor, but due to the way the migration is performed, I’d have to basically start from scratch (wrt privileges and site access).

This actually turned out to be not entirely true. We were told a long time ago that reputation and so on would not carry across. Thus that is what we communicated to users of ROS Answers:

> [@IMPORTANT: Final ROS & Gazebo Answers Migration Schedule](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/important-final-ros-gazebo-answers-migration-schedule/32779/1):
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> You will not receive reputation for past votes, but questions and answers will be associated with your Robotics Stack Exchange account as well as future votes on the migrated questions.

However, we found out just a few days ago that when the import was performed by Stack Exchange, the system granted reputation points for all questions you had answered. Before last week, I had something like 10 reputation on Robotics Stack Exchange. [That’s not the case anymore](https://robotics.stackexchange.com/users/30985/geoff) (much to my surprise). Nor is it the case for you, it appears! Congratulations on being [the #1 ranked person on Robotics Stack Exchange](https://stackexchange.com/leagues/469/alltime/robotics/2012-10-23/34994#34994). 🎉

Having said that, “life” is a reason I can totally understand for having to step back from the huge time commitment that answering so many questions requires. Thank you for all your efforts over the years to help out ROS users.

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