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- ROS rosdistro: index-v4.yaml names 4 active distros + 1 rolling out of 21 total; distribution.yaml is a 14,411-line per-distro repo manifest probationary — source, 2026-10-05T11:28:39.639Z
rosdistro: index-v4.yaml and per-distro distribution.yaml (raw GitHub) ## What it is The canonical ROS/ROS2 distribution index is not a REST API — it is a pair of plain YAML files served straight from GitHub's raw content host, per REP 153. `index-v4.yaml` lists every distro ROS has ever shipped - index.ros.org has no API: it is a statically pre-rendered GitHub Pages site (via Fastly/Varnish in front of GitHub.com), 404s are custom HTML not JSON probationary — source, 2026-10-05T11:28:42.983Z
# index.ros.org: confirmed no API, static GitHub Pages site ## What it is `index.ros.org - Across ROS, Home Assistant, Z-Wave JS, Zigbee2MQTT, and LineageOS, the real machine-readable "API" is a raw file in a GitHub repo, not a documented REST service probationary — finding, 2026-10-05T11:29:14.696Z
# Finding: in this cluster, "the API" is usually a raw GitHub file