Override list of valid statuses on a per-rosdistro basis

[mikepurvis]

For the purposes of our internal rosdistro and associated release process, the developed/maintained status values are not meaningful, and we'd prefer to use other keywords here. For example, development, testing, blocked, ready, etc.

Obviously they're fixed in the source in response to them being defined in the REP, but I wonder if you'd consider a patch which allows a field in the index.yaml (or maybe distribution.yaml) to override the list of acceptable statuses?

[dirk-thomas]

That sounds reasonable to me. Afaik code which uses the status information only uses the string values but none of the defined enums (e.g. in the build farm). So the code parsing the distribution file might be the only location where valid_statuses is being used. Therefore I would pick distribution.yaml to keep the information self contained.