boost: making bbappend version-independent

Document the specific versions of bitbake needed
Add myself to contributor list

Signed-off-by: Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>

Makes it apply to any version of boost from here on.

Signed-off-by: Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>

some minor tuning

roslaunch: increase the start and stop timeouts for the ROS master (resolves #215)

kdl: updating to 1.2.1

updating octomap, cmake-modules, robot-model and chatter

python-orocos-kdl: initial commit (resolves #203)

orocos-kdl: moving source info into kdl.inc
to share with python-orocos-kdl recipe

Updating robot-model, image-pipeline and vision-opencv recipes

The cv-bridge 1.10.14 now needs python-numpy-native, as a python
script with ´import numpy´ is executed at compile time.

The version 1.11.4 contains the local patches for
CATKIN_ENABLE_TESTING, and hence the local patches can be removed.

This commit updates to 1.10.17 and removes the local patch that
has been added to 1.10.17. The new version of collada-urdf has
added another target, and its recipe must be updated.

resolving some minor issues

updating some recipes

providing the octomap-ros recipe

After configuring octomap-ros, the recipe modifies the generated
files to address the problem in #176. However, it does not solve
the root of this cause.
As #176 is similar to #175, this preliminary solution is very
similar to the preliminary solution for #175.