ROS Noetic end-of-life checklist

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WIP Consolidating notes from misc places to one tracking issue

Final sync

• [x] Run last Noetic sync https://discourse.ros.org/t/preparing-for-final-noetic-sync-2025-05-29/43786
• [x] Tag noetic/final noetic/2025-05-29

Misc

• [x] Mark Noetic in index-v4.yaml as end-of-life https://github.com/ros/rosdistro/pull/46184
• [x] Mark Noetic end of life in ROS Index https://github.com/ros-infrastructure/rosindex/pull/531
• [ ] Make ROS Distro PRs be automatically labeled end-of-life https://github.com/ros/rosdistro/pull/46481

Infra

• [ ] Decomission prerelease.ros.org
  • [X] Add EOL notice https://github.com/ros-infrastructure/prerelease_website/pull/73
  • [x] Close all issues and PRs
  • [x] Archive repo
  • [ ] Make webserver redirect to archived repo
• [ ] Disable buildfarm jobs https://github.com/ros-infrastructure/ros_buildfarm_config/pull/233
• [ ] Decomission build.ros.org
  • [ ] Migrate distro independent content to build.ros2.org (doc_rosindex, doc_independent, doc_ros2doc)

Wiki

• [x] Point to EOL post on https://wiki.ros.org/ROS/Installation
• [x] Mark Noetic as EOL on ROS Wiki http://wiki.ros.org/Distributions
• [ ] Decomission wiki.ros.org

Source code

• [x] Archive some repos
  • [x] https://github.com/ros-visualization/gl_dependency
  • [x] https://github.com/ros-visualization/qwt_dependency
  • [x] https://github.com/ros-visualization/webkit_dependency
  • [x] https://github.com/ros/actionlib
  • [x] https://github.com/ros/catkin
  • [x] https://github.com/ros/cmake_modules
  • [x] https://github.com/ros/common_msgs
  • [x] https://github.com/ros/dynamic_reconfigure
  • [x] https://github.com/ros/gencpp
  • [x] https://github.com/ros/genlisp
  • [x] https://github.com/ros/genmsg
  • [x] https://github.com/ros/genpy
  • [x] https://github.com/ros/geometry
  • [x] https://github.com/ros/geometry2
  • [x] https://github.com/ros/media_export
  • [x] https://github.com/ros/message_generation
  • [x] https://github.com/ros/message_runtime
  • [x] https://github.com/ros/metapackages
  • [x] https://github.com/ros/nodelet_core
  • [x] https://github.com/ros/ros
  • [x] https://github.com/ros/ros_comm
  • [x] https://github.com/ros/ros_comm_msgs
  • [x] https://github.com/ros/rosbag_migration_rule
  • [x] https://github.com/ros/rosconsole
  • [x] https://github.com/ros/rosconsole_bridge
  • [x] https://github.com/ros/rospack
  • [x] https://github.com/ros/std_msgs
  • [x] https://github.com/ros/urdf
• [ ] Close all issues and PRs for some repos, except asking for ROS 2 port PRs
  • [ ] https://github.com/ros-visualization/rqt_dep
  • [ ] https://github.com/ros-visualization/rqt_logger_level
  • [ ] https://github.com/ros-visualization/rqt_pose_view
  • [ ] https://github.com/ros-visualization/rqt_rviz
  • [ ] https://github.com/ros-visualization/rqt_top
  • [ ] https://github.com/ros-visualization/rqt_web
  • [ ] https://github.com/ros-visualization/visualization_tutorials

TODO What do I need to do for https://github.com/ros/rosdistro/issues/18296 ? TODO Find things to undo from https://github.com/ros/rosdistro/issues/21513