# Rviz\_animated\_view\_controller orphaned - take over maintenance

**URL:** <https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/rviz-animated-view-controller-orphaned-take-over-maintenance/20986>\
**Category:** ROS General\
**Created:** [June 18, 2021, 4:02pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/rviz-animated-view-controller-orphaned-take-over-maintenance/20986 "2021-06-18T16:02:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![flynneva](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.openrobotics.org/flynneva/32/11173_2.png) [@flynneva](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/flynneva)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2021, 4:02pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/rviz-animated-view-controller-orphaned-take-over-maintenance/20986/1 "2021-06-18T16:02:55Z")

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[Already made a PR](https://github.com/ros-visualization/rviz_animated_view_controller/pull/8) but I wanted to draw some attention to it so someone with write access could merge it - I’d like to take over maintenance of the [rviz\_animated\_view\_controller package](https://github.com/ros-visualization/rviz_animated_view_controller) since it has been orphaned for 7 years to release it for Noetic one last time for ROS1 and then see if I can upgrade it for ROS2.

it provides a really nice plugin for animating the camera view of RVIZ which I think is very useful. I did a [really fast search](https://index.ros.org/p/rviz_animated_view_controller/github-ros-visualization-rviz_animated_view_controller/#indigo) for this sort of thing so please let me know if another package with a different name offers similar features.

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**Author:** ![Katherine\_Scott](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.openrobotics.org/katherine_scott/32/4434_2.png) [@Katherine\_Scott](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/Katherine_Scott)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2021, 8:13pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/rviz-animated-view-controller-orphaned-take-over-maintenance/20986/2 "2021-06-18T20:13:07Z")

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Generally we recomend that if you encounter an abandonned repo/package to make a “best effort” attempt to work with the current owner. If you e-mail them multiple times and there is no response let us know and we can work with you to fork it.

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**Author:** ![flynneva](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.openrobotics.org/flynneva/32/11173_2.png) [@flynneva](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/flynneva)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2021, 8:21pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/rviz-animated-view-controller-orphaned-take-over-maintenance/20986/3 "2021-06-18T20:21:00Z")

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great suggestion! just reached out to him via email/linkedin…lets see what happens 🙂

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**Author:** ![Katherine\_Scott](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.openrobotics.org/katherine_scott/32/4434_2.png) [@Katherine\_Scott](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/Katherine_Scott)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2021, 8:29pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/rviz-animated-view-controller-orphaned-take-over-maintenance/20986/4 "2021-06-18T20:29:05Z")

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The thing I neglected to say is that you should try a couple of times over a couple different mediums (i.e. a good faith effort). If nothing happens let us know.

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**Author:** ![flynneva](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.openrobotics.org/flynneva/32/11173_2.png) [@flynneva](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/flynneva)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2021, 10:14pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/rviz-animated-view-controller-orphaned-take-over-maintenance/20986/5 "2021-06-18T22:14:08Z")

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@Katherine_Scott was able to get ahold of the original maintainer and he OK’d and merged the PR.

Know of anyone who could help add me to the ros-visualization group so I could start reviewing/merging in PRs for it?

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**Author:** ![flynneva](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.openrobotics.org/flynneva/32/11173_2.png) [@flynneva](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/flynneva)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2021, 4:30pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/rviz-animated-view-controller-orphaned-take-over-maintenance/20986/6 "2021-07-02T16:30:15Z")

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@Katherine_Scott i’m gearing up to start some work on the `rviz_anmiated_view_controller` package - do you think you could help me get added to the `ros-visualization` group on github so I can maintain that package (and the `view_controller_msgs` package as well?)

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**Author:** ![flynneva](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.openrobotics.org/flynneva/32/11173_2.png) [@flynneva](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/flynneva)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2021, 7:05pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/rviz-animated-view-controller-orphaned-take-over-maintenance/20986/7 "2021-07-02T19:05:08Z")

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nevermind! just got access 🙂

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**Author:** ![Katherine\_Scott](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.openrobotics.org/katherine_scott/32/4434_2.png) [@Katherine\_Scott](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/Katherine_Scott)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2021, 2:08pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/rviz-animated-view-controller-orphaned-take-over-maintenance/20986/8 "2021-07-06T14:08:11Z")

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Well, that was easy!

Keep me posted as things progress. I can’t wait to see the results. We really appreciate you taking on this effort on the behalf of the community.