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Clarify distinction between examples, demos, tutorials

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Since May 9, 2025.

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Description

The README nor repository description makes their intended purposes clear. Or at least, a separation of their purpose.

demos README:

This repository contains source code for demos mentioned in the official ROS 2 documentation Tutorials.

examples README

To see some of these examples in use, visit the ROS 2 Tutorials page.

It seems that they partially or totally overlap. When making new documentation/tutorials/example code, it's unclear which repo that should go into.

Criteria to close this issue would be either of:

  • the distinction is dissolved and the repos are merged into one, OR
  • or the distinction is clarified and added at minimum to the README
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