# Rviz\_satellite maintenance

**URL:** <https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/rviz-satellite-maintenance/18334>\
**Category:** Packaging and Release Management\
**Tags:** orphaned\
**Created:** [January 8, 2021, 1:03pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/rviz-satellite-maintenance/18334 "2021-01-08T13:03:46Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![stfn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/74df32/32.png) [@stfn](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/stfn)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2021, 1:03pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/rviz-satellite-maintenance/18334/1 "2021-01-08T13:03:46Z")

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Hi there,

for the past years we maintained the [rviz\_satellite](https://github.com/gareth-cross/rviz_satellite) RViz plugin. Due to internal project shifts, we will not have resources to continue this work.Hence we’re looking for active maintainers, or a handover to the _ROS Orphaned Package Maintainer Group_.  
However, the package was [never](https://github.com/gareth-cross/rviz_satellite/issues/80) distributed via rosdistro, but since there are quite some forks and interest in this plugin, we wanted to check if someone would takeover from here.

Some words about the status:

- we took care of quite some bugs, performance issues and visual glitches, so we consider this rather well maintained (at least for our use-cases and the feedback we got from other projects)
- hence, I would not expect much bug-squashing work on the ROS1 side (fingers crossed)
- code quality is .. historic, as usual in ROS; but we did invest quite some time for cleanup and refactoring
- there is a initial port for ROS2 (Dashing): [Create branch for ROS2 port · Issue #69 · nobleo/rviz\_satellite · GitHub](https://github.com/gareth-cross/rviz_satellite/issues/69#issuecomment-615355273)
- imho, the logical next steps would be
  - distribute via debian package and rosdistro [minor effort]
  - add CI/CD hooks [minor effort]
  - ROS2 port [medium effort?]

Lastly, the original maintainer would like to move the code from his Github space. Is there a ROS Github space for those orphaned packages?

cheers!

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**Author:** ![stfn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/74df32/32.png) [@stfn](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/stfn)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2021, 8:56am UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/rviz-satellite-maintenance/18334/2 "2021-01-19T08:56:47Z")

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Case closed, [Nobleo](https://github.com/nobleo) takes over, the new home is at [GitHub - nobleo/rviz\_satellite: Display internet satellite imagery in RViz](https://github.com/nobleo/rviz_satellite).

Fyi, [Github](https://docs.github.com/en/github/administering-a-repository/transferring-a-repository) will forward the old repo URL to the new one, but you’re encouraged to update it in your projects.