Python > 3.12?

Hi @Tobias-Fischer @traversaro @wolfv , long time no see.

At ROS-O we've been working on python 3.13+ patches (not default in any builder yet) and someone just opened a discussion expressing their company's interest in this effort.
What is your stance here?

ROS noetic originally explicitly targeted Python 3.8.
Your robostack-noetic channel currently supports python 3.12.
My lab has run into the first cases where this is too old in direct project use (where general pixi support is a foundation we build on!).
Do you plan to add more patches for 3.13+ and keep pushing to robotstack-noetic?
Would you be interested in migrating to ros-o upstream repositories for such builds for the affected packages to address problems?
Alternatively, would it make sense to you to add a new channel robostack-roso?
After all we also include various minor patches on top of existing noetic releases by now (example repos files - not python 3.13 yet - here and here).

Greetings from Bremen!

Start by reading the issue's linked ROS-O discussion and the existing patch directory in ros-noetic. Review the referenced ros-builder-action and ros-o-builder sources.repos files to understand the current build inputs. Done would require a maintainer decision on Python 3.13+ patches, upstream migration, or a new robostack-roso channel.